Word: grading
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...make 10 years down the road harder. If you can't stand to see his things or her things, ask a friend to hold them for you. Maybe you'll never ask for them again. But there may come a day when you'd like to see her second-grade paper or a poem he wrote when he was a sophomore...
...give your kid? It depends on how old your child is, obviously, but it also depends on what kind of parent you are. As any good Supermom will tell you, Baby Einstein is the choice of parents who want their daughter to speak Swahili by 7th grade and go to Harvard. They leave the Barbies for other people - people who, they imagine, just want their daughter to have a smile on her face and go to a great state college...
...employers, internships provide a pool of raw but talented labor from which they can cherry-pick the best and brightest. Among college interns, 90% report job offers from their employers, says CareerExposure.com. Employers rank students' internships and job experiences above grade-point averages in hiring - not surprising in an era when companies from Lockheed Martin to NASA have to engage etiquette trainers to teach new hires just how to shake hands...
...when I was in eighth grade," says Marine Sgt. Rob Sarra, "and I knew what I wanted to do, I knew what I wanted to be. And then I saw a Marine when I was in high school. And I was like, that?s it! They?re mean, they?re tough, they got cool uniforms and chicks dig ?em." Sarra then recalls his interview with a recruiting officer. "?Here?s the big book of all the opportunities you have in the Marine Corps. What do you want to do?? Pushes it across the desk at me. I looked...
...personnel-switch might mean an up-tick in the number of A´s and A-minuses distributed to course-takers; Mansfield is the Faculty's most-notorious grade-deflator. But expect the course to remain, at its core, a grueling—but gratifying—intellectual challenge...