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...Success in life hinges on how well we are reared--and what we learn in school. More than ever these days, getting off to a good start in college can make the difference between getting a degree and giving up. That makes the passage from teenager at home to first-year college student one of the most stressful and important transitions in life...
...three of first-year Neeta Lal’s roommates had phones, so she and her father made a trip to the Radio Shack at Cambridgeside Galleria the other day to buy a Sprint package...
Knowles’ speech drew occasional laughs, but it was his improvisation that the crowd most appreciated: when the helicopter circled low above Tercentenary Theatre, partially drowning out Knowles’ distinct British voice, the dean joked that it was a late-arriving first-year...
...course, Harvard being Harvard, people don’t like to admit that they’re behind on the reading. As an eager first-year, I too proudly proclaimed that I was doing all the reading. By the end of the first semester, I wasn’t. Each semester since then, I’ve resolved to do all the reading—and failed every time...
...best time he ever had at college. “You get the whole campus to yourselves,” he told me two years ago; “you have free run of the place.” When the upperclassmen show up, you suddenly become a lowly first-year...