Word: summering
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Earlier that summer I had left my job as a senior editor at Time to become a senior adviser and chief speechwriter for the presidential campaign of former Senator Bill Bradley, whom I had known and admired since he came to talk to one of my classes at Princeton. A few weeks after I signed on, I mentioned during a strategy session that in an interview in a certain newsmagazine - oh, O.K., Time - the Vice President seemed to have overstated his involvement in the creation of the earned income tax credit. The campaign's ad director leaned over...
...year I sobbed all day. It sounds very melodramatic, but it was terrible," she explains. But whereas most adults going through mid-life crises buy convertibles or divorce their spouses, Agnes decided to pursue a different outlet for her dilemma. She took a digital video camera and during the summer shot footage of Hong Kong and parts of Italy in an attempt to capture and wrestle with the idea of aging and self. She describes it as a "personal travel documentary," a project that involves her as a filmmaker not directly in the footage, but rather through the subtle...
...summer, Cambridge residents are happy because all the Harvard students go home and everything is less crowded," said Edward B. Colby '02, a local resident and Rindge and Latin graduate who is also a Crimson editor. "Most of the people in my school didn't think about Harvard at all. They'd walk through Harvard Yard on their way home from school, but Harvard students didn't really have any impact on their lives...
...confirmed my hypothesis last summer when I took a class on Shakespeare's plays from the University of California at Berkeley's online extension school. As for the course itself, I was pleasantly surprised. The lectures were enthralling and the work demanding. The feedback from my professor, Mary Ann Koory, was voluminous, near instantaneous and often launched a spirited e-mail chain between us. I had much more contact with her than with many a teacher who presided over a packed lecture hall. And in certain ways, I got to know her much better than my own thesis adviser...
...first-ever school to require its full-time unders to take one course online each year, may be onto something. Imagine if you could take that required science gut course online as opposed to in a 500-person lecture or polish off that one nagging credit over the summer. Or if two classes conflicted, you could complete one over the Internet on your own time. And I would definitely do the same for any class starting before noon...