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...listen to sound poetry, and critique Expressionist art. Sweet. Although the prospect of coming up with a junior paper topic and an area of study in the one-on-one junior tutorials is daunting, concentrators often rank the class among their favorites. So stick with Lit, even though the crapshoot known as sophomore tutorial draws reviews ranging from the occasional “fantastic!” to “shitty.” Less sweet. One major reason for this is that damn literary theory. By the end of sophomore year, you’ll be able...
...sweat it, but don’t apply just for the sake of applying either. It’s meant to weed out only a few, and those initially rejected can usually talk their way in. Oh yeah, writing skills might help.It’s often a crapshoot whether you’ll get to be in the vicinity of a senior or junior faculty member or a lecturer or post-doc. Like profs, post-docs act as sophomore and junior tutorial leaders and can be either exceedingly good or exceedingly bad. Let the risk-averse take note. It?...
Whether periodic cocaine use develops into disabling addiction can be something of a crapshoot. "There's a tendency for most people who have any kind of stake in conventional life to modulate their use and not let it get out of hand," says Craig Reinarman, a sociologist at the University of California at Santa Cruz and a co-author of two books on cocaine. For most people, he says, the breaking point for cocaine use is about an eighth of an ounce a week. But that's just a very general rule, and for many people, the threshold...
...UCRC’s proposal is an excellent solution to the UC’s long-standing problem of filling less desirable committees with uninspired, unwilling reps. Its failure ensures that students interested in participating primarily in one committee of the UC will continue to engage in a crapshoot every fall. Supporters of the reform within the council must continue to lobby their peers to support this legislation. UC reps must agree to what is in the best interests of the student body, not their own personal political aspirations...
...personally felt like it was a crapshoot,” Gagnon wrote in an e-mail...