Word: grades
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Learning BASIC language from a manual with his pal Paul Allen, Trey produced two programs in the eighth grade: one that converted a number in one mathematical base to a different base, and another (easier to explain) that played tic-tac-toe. Later, having read about Napoleon's military strategies, he devised a computer version of Risk, a board game he liked in which the goal is world domination...
...ninth grade," Gates recalls over dinner one night, "I came up with a new form of rebellion. I hadn't been getting good grades, but I decided to get all A's without taking a book home. I didn't go to math class, because I knew enough and had read ahead, and I placed within the top 10 people in the nation on an aptitude exam. That established my independence and taught me I didn't need to rebel anymore." By 10th grade he was teaching computers and writing a program that handled class scheduling, which had a secret...
...only brings out the sadist in us. Don't (Cliffies) write offers to come over and read aloud to us your illegible remarks--we can (officially) read anything, and we may be married. Write on both side of the page--single bluebook finals look like less work to grade, and win points. This chic, shaded calligraphic script so many are affecting lately is handsome, and is probably worth a good extra five points if you can hack...
Fleischer says some worry that requiring a B average will induce grade inflation at colleges and universities across the country and that verifying academic performance for so many students would pose a logistical nightmare...
...Harvard players now look to take that momentum first into the exam room and then into their next game against fifth-ranked University of New Hampshire in two weeks. With only a month-and-a-half left in the season, and a modest .500 league record, making the grade has never been more important for the Crimson...