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Instead of challenging the intellectual legitimacy of such statements, many teachers place their fear of silence in sections, uncertainty and desire for good standing among their students ahead of their instinct to challenge and force students to attain more sophisticated levels of analysis. Desirous of positive CUE Guide ratings for friendliness, responsiveness and sensitivity, they abandon their Socratic obligation to mold student minds through challenge and query...
...then you're just not popular. Join a traditionally geeky activity like drama club, marching band or (heaven forbid) math team, and you can also kiss any hopes of being popular goodbye. The definition of popularity has narrow parameters, ones which are difficult to attain but ever so easy to lose...
...attain coupled nirvana, Spoon says: ³First, become inspired.² Then move to bigger and better things: outdo your best friends¹ weddings, scoff at their wine suggestions and secure the jealousy of every other couple at the gym. Keep track of your own honey though; this cosmopolitan rat race takes no prisoners...
Toyota recently introduced its first hybrid car, the Prius, in Japan. It runs on both gasoline combustion and an electric battery, and can attain about double the gas mileage of an ordinary auto. General Motors recently finished its first good electric car, the EV1, although it requires frequent recharging due to its limited range. DaimlerChrysler, taking advantage of research of both its German and American branches, leads the way in developing fuel cell engines--engines which use hydrogen gas as fuel and could produce little more than water as waste. These projects, although showing far more promise than ever before...
This procrastinator may never attain the level of effortless diligence displayed by the GW. She may not even want to. However, exams are a time when this ignored element of the student population must effect a degree of transformation. So, GWs (you might never admit it, but you know who you are) who might catch a glimpse of a procrastinator making a worthy attempt at academic diligence--please, make no study break suggestions. Do not ask the procrastinator for notes, opinions, time or attention. In fact, just walk past and leave her to her books. After all, the procrastinator needs...