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...will look to add Olympic gold to the silver and bronze that she already owns when she plays in the Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver in 2010. She then plans to pursue a coaching career at the college level, a career that may begin sooner than expected...
...teach is to learn twice,” and it is certainly true. But to teach is also to remember why you wanted to learn in the first place. Getting others excited about your subject reminds you of why you though it was awesome to begin with (and if you do not think your subject area is awesome, I recommend a change in subject...
...Being a senior entails a certain amount of sentimentality. You begin to think about all the things that you did and did not do. I would say, at the end of it all, the thing I am the happiest about is my color-coded life. I love this school and I love the people here, and I have loved needing twenty colors to keep track of everything...
...Wishful thinking gets the process going, but by the end it has no place. No 21st century reader needs reminding that zealous belief in unseen or partial evidence can have disastrous results. A thesis may begin with Paul’s version of belief, but it is developed only with a commitment to a process akin to the scientific method. You try out a hypothesis, have the guts to follow it through, and then evenly assess what you have. Crises of belief—“what if I am wrong?”—do threaten...
...months later, the committee published a report embracing a University-wide calendar with a “4-1-4” schedule—two four-month semesters, with a ‘J-term’ in between. The new calendar would begin after Labor Day and would end in late May, making it slightly longer than the current academic year. But in the last two years of Summers’ tenure, the conversation on calendar reform stalled as the Faculty of Arts and Sciences tackled the general education portion of the curricular review...