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...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...
...what is cause and what is effect. Researchers speculate that maybe kids who eat a lot of family meals have less unsupervised time and thus less chance to get into trouble. Families who make meals a priority also tend to spend more time on reading for pleasure and homework. A whole basket of values and habits, of which a common mealtime is only one, may work together to ground kids. But it's a bellwether, and baby boomers who won't listen to their instincts will often listen to the experts: the 2005 CASA study found that the number...
...that Lauren misses the conversations with her parents over dinner. She just wishes they were home so she could annoy and ignore them, as a 14-year-old should. "If Mom and Dad were back, I'd get home from school before them. I'd do my homework, go on the computer, talk on the phone nonstop and turn my stereo up real loud," she says. She likes Top 40 R. and B. Her parents...
Richard A. Krumholz ’07, who says he does all of his homework in the Reference Room, worries about the change...