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...says, which was what had first prompted her to seek out PBHA as a freshman and dive head-long into two of its longest-running programs. She’s a little more patient now as she fills up her study card with classes unrelated to sociology, content to take advantage of being an undergraduate as long as she can. She’s exploring other avenues, not because she’s had enough of a taste of public service, but because she knows that service is exactly right for her: she will get to it soon enough...
...College now, there are only four courses in which public service “field work” is integrated into the content and credit is given for such work: Sociology 96, Spanish 38, Chinese Literature 132 and Social Analysis 54. In the Social Analysis course, on American Society and Public Policy, Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology Theda Skocpol and Professor of Sociology Mary C. Waters give their students the option to replace one of the courses’ required four papers with one written on an experience in public service...
Whitman feels right at home in Boston, where—unlike in New York City or San Francisco—musicians seem less focused on self-promotion, getting signed or “making it,” he says. According to Whitman, artists in Boston are content to make music for themselves and a handful of friends, without feeling the pressure to send demos to a variety of record labels—a frame of mind that spans all different genres of underground music in Boston. Perhaps this is why Whitman’s presence is still largely unfelt...
Form a writing group, and assuming a professor allowed it, share papers in advance. If Sandel gives you a two page paper, get four of your peers to do a group editing that evaluates the quality of structure and content of each other’s papers...
...More than ever we focused on the nutritional content of the food that’s being prepared, because the data from our surveys showed that that was what was on students’ minds,” Mayer said...