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...Davis goes grocery shopping and cooks her own food. She and LeCompte work for two hours each week at the Harvest Co-op in order to get a 20 percent discount on groceries. “There is so much craziness and stress in the dorms sometimes, especially during exam times. Here, you can take half an hour, cook dinner, eat dinner, and talk a walk to the grocery store,” says Davis...
...that ran in the Daily Pennsylvanian on September 18th, Penn President Judith Rodin claimed that a football postseason would conflict with finals. She’s partially right. If the Ivy champion advances to the semifinals of the I-AA playoffs, that team will be playing football during the exam period for schools with pre-Christmas finals. But, as the article cites, the same situation exists for the NCAA women’s volleyball tournament, and the Ivy Council of Presidents has no problem sending the league champion off to compete in that playoff bracket...
...come in many shapes and sizes. Most appointments last 90 minutes to 2 1/2 hours and involve half a dozen to 25 participants. Patients are urged to maintain confidentiality; many doctors require privacy waivers. Physical examinations may be conducted in the presence of the entire group or in private exam rooms before group discussions. Of course, shared visits are not appropriate for every patient. They don't work very well with the acutely ill, the demented or the hearing impaired. Nor are they well suited to one-time consultations...
...different, but if you can see past the strangeness, you will see some remarkable things. Drop by Mr. Rush's senior art-history class some morning. Rush--a dapper, manic teacher who claims he understands absolutely nothing about wireless technology--leads his students through a brisk review before an exam, pulling images of Greek urns off the Metropolitan Museum of Art's website. He makes extensive use of what's called a Smart Board, a high-tech blackboard that throws a giant version of Rush's laptop screen on the wall. It's touch-sensitive, so he can point...
...paper and campus mail. It is not the fastest system existing in the world, but it is the most personalized and least stressful I’ve ever experienced. Course registration, by the way, is done in highly personalized discussion with advisors followed by a quick submission of an exam form. Harvard already has an only slightly more complex version or this—why in the world should it be changed...