Word: homework
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...emerged from the womb. I recently found a schedule I made for myself in fourth grade, which was all blocked out based on the TV schedule. When I got home, it was Magilla Gorilla, then The Andy Griffith Show. I think I allotted 15 minutes for dinner, and homework was done in front of the television. News was always on the schedule as well. I had a reading problem when I was a kid, so writing came a little slow...
...DIFFICULT "I know that when I start a new job, that this is the thing that precedes me," Streep says with a sigh. "That I'm rigorous in doing my homework and hideously overprepared, and ..." She shrugs. "And that's fine. Better to come off as smarter and more disciplined than I actually am." She waits a beat and then adds with a delighted laugh, "Not that I'm interested in debunking the myth!" Yet everybody who's worked with her turns into a geyser of mush about how giving and life-affirming she is. So perhaps the difficult...
...matching men—they’re beating them. Goldin and Katz attribute this to the fact that boys are more likely than girls to have behavioral problems.The much higher rate of disciplinary and behavior problems for males and the far lower amount of time they spend on homework can explain almost the entire female advantage in college attendance for the high school class of 1992, adjusting for family background, test scores, and high-school achievement, according to Goldin and Katz’s research.One year after University President Lawrence H. Summers pledged to spend $50 million...
...times did I scream at someone for using the word “plethora”? How many episodes of Family Guy?I could tally up stories written, but how about laughs, tears, screams, sweat, words typed, pages designed, headlines punned, photos photoshopped, drinks chugged, cold Chinese food eaten, homework undone, hours unslept?It seems I’ve outplayed my own game. To prove that statistics don’t matter, I have to first make it seem like they do.And since I know that in the end, numbers are irrelevant, I can’t be comfortable with...
...Viswanathan ’08 was accused of plagiarizing passages from other novels for her book “How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life,” a media blitz erupted. But when a number of students were caught cheating on midterms and homework assignments at the College 25 years ago, the issue quickly slid under the radar.Although these incidents have long faded from memory, in November of 1980, two professors reported instances of cheating during fall semester midterms.William H. Bossert ’59, then-McKay professor of applied mathematics, investigated allegations that...