Word: classwork
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...School has had in place for some time a "mandatory" class attendance policy. The 1997-1998 catalog contains the following language: "Classwork is essential to the educational program at the Law School. Regular attendance at classes and participation in classwork are expected of all students." The wisdom of this "mandatory" attendance policy was not at issue in the Legal Education Committee's deliberations last semester...
This conclusion is both simplistic and unjust. It mistakes an indifference and impatience for tedious classwork with a spiritual malaise and selfish inwardness. These are two very distinct kinds of boredom--and they have very different implications. The first, the indifference, is a particular dissatisfaction, the outward sign that one's mind and one's priorities are elsewhere, for better or worse. The second type of boredom is a sickness. It is totalizing, spiritual and philosophical. College first-years these days are bored in the first sense only; they do not have their minds on their work because they...
...midst of everything I am involved in, everything I care about, I need space, just a little space of silence around me every once in a while. I need to remember that there are things more important than classwork, more important than The Harvard Crimson (shh!), even more important than spending time with my friends. I have to spend time with myself...
...many students, the academic experience of Harvard is encapsulated during reading period, when students immerse themselves in their classwork and term papers...
...your mind to it, you can always get a summer job," Young says. "If you go from classwork straight smack into exams without a chance to switch gears, the tension would be unimaginable," he says...