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...that deadline into your comfort zone. With deadlines flying by, one needs to develop the proper skill set to keep the old GPA from flagging. Professors can be a reactionary bunch, and they need to be let down gently when they are told that the paper they planned on grading a week past the deadline will actually arrive a week past the deadline. First, get a feel for the lay of the land. If the syllabus and reminder e-mails explicitly affirm that no extensions will be granted, it’s a good idea not to push your luck...
...assigned to Dunster, the veritable opposite pole of the Harvard world. Oh, Harvard, I groaned, why couldn’t you produce a better system? As my time here continued, so did my complaints. I complained about issues of diversity, unfair “remedies” to the grade inflation that I never saw, the men, and the weather. As an executive of The Harvard Crimson, I listened to—and sympathized with—the complaints of many other members of the Harvard community. So focused was I on what was wrong with Harvard that...
...Some fellow eighth-graders at Yamhill Grade School in Oregon held an organizational meeting for a student newspaper. I hadn’t shown up, but nobody there wanted to be editor, so they elected me editor in absentia,” Kristof explains. “And I found I loved...
...numbers that matter, it’s what they represent. It’s not how many championships you win, it’s that you won at all.So why do I want to catalog them, despite it all? For myself? To prove that my grade point average isn’t the only number with which I’ll leave college? To prove to my parents the value of my time spent devoted to touchdowns rather than term papers? To prove to my roommates it was worth missing the hours I could have spent with them? To brag...
...interview with “Mother Jones.”Faludi received a Pulitzer Prize in 1991 for her Wall Street Journal coverage of leveraged buyouts of Safeway supermarkets. She has also written for The New York Times and Newsweek.Her interest in journalism began early and ran deep.In fifth grade, she inadvertently made waves when she conducted a poll of fellow students’ opinions on abortion and the Vietnam War.“Not being the loudest person on the block, not being one who regularly interrupted in class or caused a scene, I discovered that through writing...