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...Calculus and PreCalc piqued my interest, and once I even spent a history class trying to solve a math problem with glee. But usually it was the other way around; math class was absorbed by writing sonnets, and I left without having understood the material. I refused to do homework, sometimes even to study. By the end of senior year, I was so absent even when present, that my math teacher asked my twin brother what was going on. My brother, who remained in honors math with considerably more ease, just shrugged. It was just...
Getting home at night has not always been so easy. As recently as December 2003, nighttime shuttle bus service ended as early as 12:30 a.m. on weekdays—clearly too early considering Lamont Library is open until 12:45 a.m. and students routinely do homework together well past then. After administrators made the overdue decision last spring to extend shuttles into the early morning, low late-night ridership recently led University Hall to consider scaling back service to 3 a.m. or 2 a.m. But faced with a volley of student e-mails imploring them to keep the shuttles...
Authors who have talked with Bush about their writing are anxious to point out that he has done his homework. "He obviously had read it and taken it seriously," says Gaddis, who writes about American foreign policy after 9/11. "The image of him as unquestioning just seems totally wrong." But if Bush is gathering information, it often seems to be sustenance for his pre-existing views. Soon after the attacks of 9/11, he read the Civil War history April 1865, and the example of Lincoln's strength left him even more convinced that he should not change direction. "Lincoln...
Another happiness booster, say positive psychologists, is performing acts of altruism or kindness--visiting a nursing home, helping a friend's child with homework, mowing a neighbor's lawn, writing a letter to a grandparent. Doing five kind acts a week, especially all in a single day, gave a measurable boost to Lyubomirsky's subjects...
...It’s really difficult because everyone expects you to be alright after the first week of school,” says Woodbridge President Lukasz Strozek ’05, who is from Poland. “Homework every week, midterms, some people are not used to that...