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Please don’t tell me you have a meeting or schoolwork; you are only perpetuating the problem (plus, we all know how easy it is to procrastinate instead). Most “normal” schools stop at game time to support their athletes’ hard work and show their school pride. People complain that Harvard isn’t “normal.” Well, then figure out what is absent and change it. School spirit, social life, a student center and, some might say, a more rigorous science program…the list...
While he notes that there are exceptions to all of his suggestions, he emphasizes that college should be a time to enjoy and explore—not work endlessly to prepare for a future job or to bury oneself in schoolwork...
...Summer sections for many failing students started this week in Baltimore, New York Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Denver, Cleveland New Orleans and Miami. Students who failed assessment tests and had lagging schoolwork will be promoted based on summer school completion as well as year-round classroom performance. New York estimates a staggering one third of its approximately 327,000 public school students will need the extra classroom time...
Each one of us probably could have lived a number of happy lives here, choosing schoolwork rather than newspaper work, politics over performance, and so on. At Harvard, we can’t do everything. Instead, we make choices...
...educational godsend. But for growing numbers of college students, the lures of the Net backfire, according to a study in the Journal of Communication. Trouble arises when students become hooked on the "live" Net of instant messaging, chat rooms and gaming. Students who felt Internet use had hurt their schoolwork were logged on to the live Net 10 times as long as were their peers...