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...Princeton University Press.FIRST IMPRESSIONSThe Press publishes about 200 manuscripts a year. Standards are high. Representatives of the press often scour academic conventions for the newest and freshest ideas. The nine acquisition editors follow scholars whose work might one day prove promising. Each is an expert in his or her field. “We’re lapsed academics,” says Elizabeth Knoll, an acquisition editor for Behavior Sciences, Education and Law. Just like getting into Harvard itself, getting one’s work into the Press is a struggle. “I had had a professional...
...prepared at the end of sophomore, junior, and senior year.If you enjoy some adventure in your life, you’ll like the fact that Hist & Lit has a large degree of flexibility in designing an individual plan of study. The concentration requires you to select a special field within the concentration with a focus on America, Latin America, Modern Europe, Postcolonial Studies, Early Modern Europe, Medieval Europe, or a field of your choice—pending tutor approval. In short, a Hist & Lit concentrator has to endure a fair amount of paperwork, but for someone interested in planning...
...writer if I were not writing a thesis and taking these courses.”Others see creative writing as a complementary endeavor to their academic studies. Angelo S. Mao ’10 is an Engineering concentrator who plans to pursue a career in that field. On the side, however, Mao has written around 20 short stories, a novel, and 50 poems, and he has taken three creative writing workshops.“I like to think that it didn’t hurt my grades, because it fulfilled some spiritual or psychological need that helped me do better...
...recent research project by Ohio State University researcher Aryn Karpinski has reported a correlation between Facebook usage and grade point averages. Despite specializing in a relatively unrelated field of quantitative analysis, Karpinski was inspired to investigate the effects of the social networking site Facebook on the performance of college students. Karpinski analyzed extensive surveys of both a quantitative and qualitative nature from over 200 Ohio State students. Her data suggested a correlation between Facebook usage and lower GPAs among college students at Ohio State University. “Although this study has investigated an area totally outside of my realm...
...Junior midfielder Jason Duboe sent a pass to captain midfielder Max Motschwiller cutting across the field and Motschwiller fired a shot from 10 yards in front of the net into the back of the goal, bringing the score within...