<p>Although our daughter has a lot of friends and fun at Harvard, she says the classes are the best part of her experience there. Wouldn’t ordinarily post on this topic, but want to add this for balance.</p>
<p>Some majors have very small classes with a lot of interaction with professors and teaching fellows. Other departments are quite large, as are the classes in those subjects. She is fortunate to be in the former group.</p>
<p>French classes were enjoyable, and she loved her expository writing class Freshman year. Gen. Ed. classes have been good too. </p>
<p>We hear a lot of funny stories: her classes seem to have a lot of humor along with the rigor.</p>
<p>She is quite a critical and cynical person, overall, so her enthusiasm for the classes was surprising, actually.</p>
<p>I would say that there aren’t many pre-med. students in her classes, or preprofessional for that matter. Perhaps classes are more appreciated when grades aren’t on your mind. She hasn’t looked at her grades yet, at all, and she just finished her second year. In this, she is also fortunate.</p>
<p>When I see her reading a book that she wouldn’t have read without some exposure at Harvard, or listening to some obscure piece of music, or she tells me something about health policy that I didn’t know, I can see that she is getting something out of Harvard, just as we had hoped.</p>