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...than SAT IIs (or just tell yourself that after you receive a 500 on the exam after taking 7 years of high school Spanish). Then you’ll have a mandatory lunch with your academic adviser, who might happen to be helpful, engaged, and appropriately matched to your interests??but more likely not. Make the best of what you get, and consider scheduling a second appointment to ask specific questions about classes and scheduling. If your professor turns out to be unforgivably obtuse, don’t worry: you’ll probably only...
...Michael always liked to stand with his heels on the fireplace so that he could get up a couple more inches above everybody else,” said Joseph W. Esherick ’64, Crichton’s freshman year roommate.Though the pair differed in academic interests??Crichton studied physical anthropology and Esherick studied Chinese studies—Esherick said he “always thought we were put together as freshmen by height.” The three residents of Weld 17 were all over 6’4”, with Crichton standing the tallest.The...
...Tischfield first heard about the Ceramics Micro-Enterprise Project in an e-mail he received last summer. After working with clay for the past six years, he hoped to find a post-graduate experience abroad that combined his interests??archeology and ceramics. The Ceramics Micro-Enterprise Project seemed to fit the bill...
...Times that suggested that many members of the American educational establishment are cautiously optimistic about the role of interactive games in teaching young children to read, was for the most part a heartening piece of news. Parents and teachers should indeed at times allow a child’s interests??even if they are in video games and movies—to work to their own educational benefit. In the Times report, an administrator at the New York Public Library puts the question very succinctly: “What exactly is reading...
...unconventional, it struck a cord with her because it would actually draw attention,” he said. According to Krahel, the protest was inspired by Billionaires for Bush—a national grassroots campaign that satirically supports President Bush in order to express its view of corporate interests??and derived from a similar tactic used by protesters last May in support of raising wages for security guards. Word of the protest was spread through campus e-mail lists, with a farcical flyer that asserted, “This war is needed to stimulate our economy and protect...