So, literally earlier today when I was on my way to campus I emerged from the Harvard Subway Station and I was about to exit the station up the stairs when I noticed this older woman who was standing by one of these things.

今天早些时候，在我从哈佛地铁站,到学校的路上,我即将走出地铁站，上楼梯时,我注意到一个老太太站在,这样的东西旁边。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Well our goal here was to answer that question for people and then hopefully facilitate friends getting together, shopping courses with each other, for each other, picking up syllabi and thus was born what we dub Harvard Courses.

我们的目的就是要解答这个问题,并希望可以使认识的朋友一起上课，选课的时候也有个商量，拿起教学大纲,从而诞生了这门哈佛课程。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选