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...Deng has done just that. When we met six months later, it was at the new campus of top-ranked Sichuan University, where he now studies electrical engineering. In July, Deng took the college-entrance exam and passed with the highest score among his schoolmates. The head of the university asked him to give a speech commemorating the new school year. "If you're still alive, then there is no reason to despair," he told his classmates and teachers. "I am living, and my life is hopeful." But in private, there are moments of doubt. "To get used...
Students learned to make slings from bandages and practiced CPR on mannequins, among other activities. Classes concluded with a written exam...
...Last year, Harvard lost to Dartmouth one week after blowing out the Big Green, then lost a feisty game at Penn three weeks later after its exam break. But if the players turn those gut-wrenching losses into exhilarating victories in 2009, the script may be different this time...
...studied in quite the same way as other art forms,” Allison B. Kline ’09, president of the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club, says. “You wouldn’t want to see it become something that’s simply theoretical and exam-focused. Acting is really about production and experience.”Striking a balance between instructional and experiential learning has proven a challenge for both performance and the visual arts. Harvard College has always stayed away from pre-professional tracks, but young artists today will be graduating and trying...
...characters get drunk, fall in love and steal exam papers - but Five Point Someone also taps into the pressures facing students at India's élite educational institutions. One character's brilliant research proposal gets shelved because he's considered an underachiever, with a "five-point-something" grade average. Another nearly breaks down under the pressure from his mother to find a job that will pay for his father's medical bills and sister's dowry...