Word: impressionism
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"I wouldn't want to give the blithe impression that this is just a sweet or simple time between the union and the University," Jaeger says.
Long ago, the humorist Finley Peter Dunne ("Mr. Dooley") described being Vice President of the U.S. as "a sort of disgrace, like writing anonymous letters." Talking to oneself is cousin to that. It seems a Richard Nixon sort of thing to do. If Nixon did not actually talk to himself...
"We talk to students who say, `I like to wear six earrings, is that okay?'" Wright-Swadel says. "The answer is, `Sure, that's okay, but you have to understand that's going to make an impression to employers.' You have to understand that it might have consequences that you...
"Employers, before they even have the chance to decide if you're an intelligent person, have a chance to decide if you're serious about the impression that you'll make," Darling says.
I get the impression that administrators and students think the larger the number of requirements students are forced to endure, the more rigorous the concentration. Certain departments apparently subscribe to a motto of "pile 'em on," pushing tutorials and related field classes down unwilling concentrators' throats. Superficially these classes might...