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Back in 1998, Cooper received his high school diploma with a 2.2 grade point average. He had no plans to apply to college. Instead, he ditched his books in exchange for some fatigues, and enlisted in the United States Army. He began his four-year career as an American solider in Korea, where he was stationed for about a year. From there, he was shipped off for another six months, this time to Egypt. He was a sergeant by the time he got back to the States...
...hard to talk to people at Harvard because they are at the top of the ranks,” said Dorothy Chu, admiring the John Harvard statue. Given an all-American nickname in her grade-school English class, Dorothy said, “In the United States you are thinking you are kind of eager to go to University, but it is hard to graduate...
...call the Harvard community to arms. Harvard: you’ve stood up against war, you’ve stood up against opponents of the living wage, and you’ve stood up to grade inflation. Now is the time to stand up to acorns...
...guiding conversations? How many have had TFs who do not know how to facilitate a discussion, to focus its inquiry, to corral its digressions? How often as a result have we had to suffer through sections dominated by classmates in love with their own voice and grubbing for grades? Too often we leave more confused and more turned off to the material than when we arrived. Too often there is too much talking, too little listening, and virtually no constructive dialogue going. Such criticisms are hardly new, but, surprisingly, the two myths perpetuating these weekly disasters still linger: Myth...
Most of The Club’s “parties” were like third-grade single-sex sleepovers (chaperone included). In a time before drinking and mingling with men were acceptable behaviors for women, the chief forms of amusement included charades, bicycle rides, impromptu dancing, long walks, and writing short plays...