Word: boringness
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Seniors have engaged in a year-long discussion about their theses that is as redundant as it is uninteresting, and as pathetic as it is boring. Dear lord, it’s a thesis we’re talking about here. Although some concentrations require original research, not many of...
There is saccharine adoration and generosity all around. Clancy says Griffin sometimes leaves books he thinks she will like in her mailbox at PBH. According to Griffin (who calls all the volunteers “kids”), “They are all kids I could be happy to...
Other sacrifices may not be so easily recouped. Critics, including some classroom teachers, contend that many test-prep activities--such as skimming instead of reading passages or speedily filling in bubble sheets--do nothing to really expand brainpower or knowledge. For example, a Kaplan guide to the writing section of...
Who says charity chatter is boring? In October, journalism professor Anne Nelson was seated next to theater director Jim Simpson at a benefit. Nelson told him of her experience helping a fire captain write eulogies for firemen lost on Sept. 11. Simpson suggested she rework the meeting into a play...
Jason L. Steorts ’01-’03, a philosophy concentrator in Dunster House, distinguishes himself by sporting two class years instead of the usual (and boring) one. He will continue to examine the most contentious debates at Harvard and beyond, determining just who is in the...