Word: excellance
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...tell Jeffrey’s story not as an example comparative to my own, but because I have done my best to apply the lessons learned from Maniac Magee during the past four years. We sportswriters are the aspirant athletes who were not blessed with the skills to excel on the playing field. Instead of playing, we do the best we can to engage ourselves in the pursuit of victory that we enjoy so very much, in the closest way possible...
Improper use of such study drugs not only is illegal but also creates inequalities among students. Harvard does its best to make sure financial situations do not impact a student’s ability to excel at Harvard, but students who are more socioeconomically prosperous are the ones who are able to illegally buy study drugs from others. When these students are able to pay high prices for drugs through the black market, they receive an unfair academic advantage...
...second place in the pole vault with a jump of 5.30 meters. The distance medley team finished 13th for the top Harvard relay showing, with senior Derek Jones, sophomore Dan Chenoweth, and freshmen Darcy Wilson and Brian Paison completing the event in 10:00.78.The women also challenged themselves against excellent competition and watched a few relay teams excel. The 4x1600 team of sophomores Claire Richardson, Hilary May, and Jamie Olson, along with rookie Nicole Cochran, crossed the line in fourth, drawing praise from Saretsky.“The women’s 1600 did a really great...
...only about 300 people for purely academic reasons, the rare geniuses who rediscovered plutonium and finished Math 55 in high school. (One lived on my floor freshman year. At least, he was rumored to, but he never emerged during the daytime.) In addition to this are some people who excel early in specific fields. The rest of the class is made up of well-rounded, normal people. They come from everywhere in the world, they share your passions, they will make you laugh, and they will teach you about yourself. And you won’t meet any of them...
...have come at the expense of accessibility and even insight. What is not true is that we have to choose between quantitative and non-quantitative approaches to politics. Bolduc’s essay establishes a false binary—“These professors ditched The Federalist Papers for Excel spreadsheets years ago.” In this crude thinking, no course could (or should) have both...