Word: focusing
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...Alaska. Then there was me, wearing a pink bandana. As I strapped on my rented backpack on the first day, I tried to push away memories of wandering around the land in New Mexico, searching for any point in the landscape that differentiated itself from the rest, and to focus on the scenery in front...
...square-foot science complex, which is slated to house the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, and an art center which would showcase the University’s contemporary and modern art collection.But after a series of contentious meetings between Harvard officials and Allston residents, the University decided to focus on the science complex and put the art center on the back burner.Harvard will submit a revised 50-year plan to the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) for approval next spring. BRA spokeswoman Jessica Shumaker said that Faust’s emphasis on spending ample time to flesh out the details...
...students in the spring of 2006 to 128 this past spring. Levitsky graduated from Stanford in 1990 with a bachelor’s degree in political science and received his doctorate in political science from the University of California at Berkeley in 1999. He primarily studies Latin America, focusing on informal institutions and organizations, political parties and party change, and political regimes in the context of democratization. But the scope of Levitsky’s often goes beyond his regional interests, according to Eduardo J. Gomez, who served as a teaching fellow for Gov 1295 last semester...
...innovation competition. Segal said that I^3 places Harvard on par with other renowned business plan competitions including MIT’s 100K Entrepreneurship Competition and the Harvard Business School’s Business Plan Contest. What distinguishes I^3, Segal said, is its undergraduate and multi-track focus. Students from a variety of concentrations and interests are encouraged to compete for cash grants worth up to $10,000 by submitting business plan proposals in one of four tracks: For-Profit Startups, Campus Service Ventures, Social Entrepreneurship, and Creative Enterprises. The purpose of the multi-track nature of the program...
...individual match between students and colleges—particularly through rankings—will fall flat. The qualities of a college include far more than statistics about retention rates, average SAT scores, and faculty-to-student ratios. The U.S. News ranking in particular encourages bad choices and an unhealthy focus on prestige and elitism. If the list is useful for anything at all, it would only be to pad the egos of those schools that end up high on the list or higher than they expected—not for simplifying the college search for confused high school students.Harvard should...