Word: diploma
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...earn an I.B. diploma, students must prove written and spoken proficiency in a second language, write a 4,000-word college-level research paper, complete a real-world service project and pass rigorous oral and written subject exams. Courses offer an international perspective, so even a lesson on the American Revolution will interweave sources from Britain and France with views from the Founding Fathers. "We try to build something we call international mindedness," says Jeffrey Beard, director general of the International Baccalaureate Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. "These are students who can grasp issues across national borders. They have an understanding...
...Japan, the prospect of a Harvard undergraduate diploma often doesn’t command the same reverence as it does in China or South Korea, say students from the island nation...
...your entryway: a book of Sudo-Fuk-U from Urban Outfitters, $12.99. 6) For your mom: a Harvard Mug from the Harvard Shop (for the fourth year in a row), $9.00. 7) For your alumnus father: a strand of flashing Christmas lights from CVS to adorn that Harvard diploma of his, $9.99. 8) For the fashionista: a $15 gift certificate to Mint Julep, which will buy her...nothing. 9) For the wannabe musician: an hour lesson with the man who plays the erhu in the Square, $13.75. 10) For the image-conscious Hist and Lit concentrator: a Starbucks paper...
Soon, my older sister intones, we won’t have the youth, free time, or benefit of counting travel towards a diploma...
...like to imagine that if you get your children to college, their lives are set. Just get them through those four years with a diploma and your job is done. But maybe we should consider something like a six-year plan. After four years at college, encourage them to come home for two years to work off the student loan debt. Then they can pick a job they really want, and be out of your hair...