Word: courseload
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This is not, of course, what I wanted to hear. After all, what right did this professor have to tell me how much work I should be doing? I could just as easily have chosen a lighter courseload and not had the problem of having to do two 10-pagers, a 12- to 15-page one, and a 30-page tutorial essay due for the end of the term, and he could not have done anything about...
...problem then is that I would be choosing my courses solely on the basis of the workload involved. Although this is a compromise all students must make every term, it is certainly not an inclination professors should encourage. If faced with a choice between taking a more demanding courseload while dual submitting one paper and taking a bunch of guts, I think that most professors would want students to choose the former...
This past year the study of ethics was given a tentative place in the first-year courseload, incorporated as a seven-session, ungraded module which lasted three weeks and was required of all entering students...
...cancer returned in the summer before his senior year. Yet Tom's single-minded quest to lead an uncompromised life bore on. Despite continual pain and debilitating chemotherapy every other weekend, Tom gained a second remission and stayed in school, taking two classes in the fall and a full courseload in the spring and participating in intramural sports. He earned his degree at Harvard Summer School, finishing his last exam on August 19. The next day, while on vacation in Colorado, he relapsed one final time...
...always feared that you'll only remember enough from your $17,000-a-year education to fill a half-hour cocktail conversation, there's a way you can save yourself the anguish of a four-year courseload. All you have to do is lay out $5.95 to buy a tape that packs in all that you'll ever need to know...