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...they get on the T going outbound. Today was bad but likely a good indication of what she can expect next year. Miles starts kindergarten in September. The school begins too late and ends too early for April’s work day, which means she will have to drop him in daycare early, go to the lab, then move him from daycare to school, then back to the lab, then move him from school to daycare, then back to the lab, and finally pick him up to go home. Not to mention the prospect of losing the daycare grant...
When it comes down to it, I guess, I can only recommend that at one point during college, you drop everything, piss off your parents, and go abroad—for a week, for a summer, for a semester. Do something stupid. Make new friends. Do nothing for a long period of time without thinking about work. Then come back and return to the land of worry and G-chats and stalking ISawYouHarvard, a few regrets and pounds heavier. It’s the American...
...they could not always control. There, the findings were mixed. Kids who got paid did indeed get better grades, and they also attended class more - a week and a half more over the school year. That is a big deal, since nearly half of Chicago's high school kids drop out before they graduate and the kids who skip school and fail courses as freshmen tend to be the ones who drop out. We won't know until 2012 if the experiment lowered the dropout rate, but we do know that the rewards did not raise standardized-test scores...
...with a leap of 5.84 meters. The other winner was Bellin, who added to a “monster leg,” according to Saretsky, in the 4x400 with a victory in the 400-meter hurdles. The rookie’s time of 1:02.43 represented a significant drop from just two weeks...
...precipitous $11 billion drop in Harvard’s endowment in the fiscal year ending 2009—and perceptions of financial of financial mismanagement—has not severely shaken the confidence of the University’s prominent donor base...