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...expected to navigate shows only the numbers, not the titles, of courses—a baffling departure from previous years. There are also no links to navigate from one course to the next without returning to the main menu, making browsing all of the courses in a department tedious...
...Toto to life, or enjoy the visual gag of seeing Capricorn's henchman land in the middle of Kansas, post-tornado. But the internal story, the meta-Inkheart as penned by Fenoglio, never comes into focus; if I were Capricorn, I'd want to escape its tedious pages as well. And if I were Mirren, I'd steer that unicorn right off the screen...
...Luckily, the industry has a grace period to make adjustments. Books are in no rush to move online; Amazon is currently the only big e-book publisher. It is tedious to manually scan hundreds of pages, and the new generation of consumers often has homework, finals, or primal screams to attend to. Nevertheless, as the demand for e-books grows, bookstores should watch their backs—someday, you may have to look for your course packs online. You might not even have to wait for someday: students deterred by the price of the $60 Ec 1010a workbook can already...
...pile up we decide C- (Harvard being Harvard, we do not give D’s. Consider C- a failure.) Why? Not because they are a sign the student does not know the material, or hasn’t thought creatively, or any of that folly. They simply make tedious reading. “Locke is a transitional figure.” “The whole thing boils down to human rights.” Now I ask you, I have 92 bluebooks to read this week, and all I ask, really, is that you keep me awake...
...often feel like working or doing something that's good for my brain, but I try to push myself to do it nonetheless, because, as with physical exercise, I always feel better when I've done it...I resent the effort it takes to maintain relationships or meet the tedious obligations that family and friendships can impose, and yet I know that isolation is very bad for me. I know that my happiness depends, in large part, on human contact and intimacy. And so, as with everything else, I do it and reap the reward...