Word: exam
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DURING Harvard's four-week winter exam extravaganza, a horrible disease develops on campus...
This frame of mind hampered my exam performance. As I struggled to remember the inner working of the mammalian kidney, my mind rattled off 12 different ways to make the layout of the exam more visually pleasing. "Times font would have been most appropriate for this question," I thought to myself. "Why didn't they use boldface for contrast...
Suggesting a move that would drastically alter the shape of Harvard's calendar and break with a 350-year-old tradition, two sophomores have formed a new group called Students for Schedule Reform (SSR), in the hopes of moving the fall exam period to be before the winter break...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences considered changing the exam schedule several years ago. But the Faculty was divided over the question, and thus decided to maintain the traditional system...
Insomnia does not manifest itself directly as stress about the next day of paper-writing or an imminent exam. Insomnia for me meant worrying incessantly, for the first time in my life, that I would not be able to fall asleep. I spent my many waking night-time hours yelling frantically at myself: "Sleep! Sleep! Relax! RELAX!" When self-punishment failed to calm me down, I turned on the tape recorder. I paced, manically. I pounded my mattress. I stared into the light bulbs until my eyes watered. I cried, almost...