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...meaningful learning and with successfully accomplishing one’s goals.Some students tell me that they are driven to succeed, but there is a distinction between having drive and being driven. Driven, perfectionistic students can be especially vulnerable to academic and personal difficulties such as writer’s block, performance and social anxiety, stress, compulsive behaviors, and depression. A relentless focus on the perfect end product (a grade, a class ranking, the perfect paper), fueled by a fear of failure, can block the productivity and achievement that comes from engaging and persisting in the process of learning. Learning...
...refuses to give free rides, and for an academic team like Mock Trial, this becomes just another road block in sustaining an active organization. In a group merely ten years old, relying on a network of alumni becomes impossible—especially considering that the organization has a history of struggling to provide the most elementary of services to its members...
...field of vision, each bullet followed by a bright red tracer round so that they could be heard and also seen in the dark. When the car did not slow down, Lozano says he fired at the ground in front of it, then into the tires, then the engine block until the vehicle came to a halt ten meters away from where the Humvees were parked...
...Lescaze. They meet for drinks. He compares her to a character in a Ford Maddox Ford novel and she’s pretty much smitten. Darling narrates an eerie scene of gazing from her apartment window at the silhouette of Lescaze and his wife behind drawn curtains only a block away. He has three children too, but no matter. Montage: standard affair tropes (stolen kisses, seedy hotel rooms, and the like). Careening towards the gossipy tell-all à la Jessica Cutler’s autobiographical novel “The Washingtonienne,” that other Beltway narrative...
...snarl now drips with charisma, accompanied by the kind of thunderous, propulsive drumming that bullies wallflowers into action. The entire endeavor seems to be on the verge of losing control even with Johnny Marr’s coolheaded guitar-playing; the veteran Smiths guitarist may have been around the block once or twice, but this is still very much Brock’s party. Even when inevitable future singles like “Florida” and “Fly Trapped in a Jar” settle into a groove, Brock keeps chomping at the bit, pushing the entire...