Anonymous reports, sent back to University Hall, would provide a dramatic portrait of what it is like to move, year by year, through Harvard concentrations. Gusmorino has suggested that “mini-essays” from concentrators and information from senior surveys should be included in the proposed concentration CUE guide, but it seems the whole proposal is stuck in an early planning stage. This project should be a serious priority, with a budget to staff it over the summer, just like the CUE’s course guide. Maybe then all the stereotypes can be dismissed—or at least confirmed with hard numbers.

Then first-years will really know what they are getting into.

Adam I. Arenson ’00-’01 is a history and literature concentrator in Lowell House. His column appears on alternate Fridays.