For many college students, course difficulty doesn’t always reflect effort or intelligence. An English major might breeze through novels but panic during a chemistry midterm. A biology student may ace molecular pathways but dread every writing assignment. These struggles aren’t signs of inadequacy—they reflect the mental pivot students must make between disciplines. What seems “hard” […]
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The most shocking thing about the Harvard cheating scandal was not that 125 students out of a class of 279 were found to have “committed acts of academic dishonesty” on an exam last spring, or even that the exam was for a course that was supposed to be an easy mark. It was that it […]
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