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...students experience education as irrelevant to their life goals and ambitions," says Michael Nakkula, a Harvard education professor who runs a Boston-area mentoring program called Project IF (Inventing the Future), which works to get low-income underachievers in touch with their aspirations. The key to getting kids to aim higher at school is to disabuse them of the notion that classwork is irrelevant, to show them how doing well at school can actually help them fulfill their dreams beyond it. Like any ambitious toddler, they need to understand that you have to learn to walk before...
...directing my attention to the math team and the Spanish club instead.But a hunky, post-year football player in the trainer’s room soon distracted me from these academic endeavors. He had a public school swagger and a deep-set, brooding stare; we flirted over AIM for weeks (secretly he’s still on my buddy list) and then spent a few afternoons on the bleachers talking about his demanding father, about his difficulty in calculus, and about his disappointment with a losing season. I liked listening to the quarterback let down his guard...
Gentry says the work was chosen with the deliberately chosen to “shock and enlighten” viewers, and to continue the long-running aim of BlackCAST productions to “open people’s eyes to ideas and situations that they don’t really think about all the time...
...attracted 1,400 people, before the 2003 Game. In addition, the YCC is compiling a list of events the night before The Game, Syverud said. The list, which will be posted on YaleStation.org, will include information about New Haven clubs, restaurants, and transportation. While Syverud said the new regulations aim to prevent the damage that Yale residential colleges incurred two years ago, some students said they think the new restrictions will cause even more problems. “Regardless of whether or not policies are in place, parties are still going to happen on campus,” Engel said...
...recently released BlackBerry Messenger, available for download here, was loaded on my review unit. It can?t talk to desktop IM programs like AIM, MSN or Yahoo! Messenger, but it?s good for linking up with other BlackBerry users. My review unit also had a few cute games like Bass Assassin, but the gadget freak in me still misses entertainment features like MP3 players or even cameras. Lazaridis made the case that the absence of a camera is a good thing, making the BlackBerry permissible in places where camera phones would be blocked, such as a research...