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...just put on a lot of pressure [in the second half]," Harvard Tri-Captain Jane Grim said, "and thought we were going to score...
CONTRIBUTORS: Kurt Andersen, Gerald Clarke, Jay Cocks, Thomas Griffith, Pico Iyer, Charles Krauthammer, John Leo, Jane O' Reilly, Kenneth M. Pierce, Richard Schickel, Mimi Sheraton, John Skow
...Jane lived at home in Chicago and spent her summer evaluating math textbooks used in high schools. "I was in charge of analyzing data collected from 1000 ninth and tenth graders on their opinions of math books," she says. It's not even exciting to read about, let alone live...
...haven't gotten to the really boring part yet," Jane adds. After several weeks of analyzing, she was promoted to sharpening pencils--3500 Number Twos, to be exact. (Did you ever wonder who sharpened all those pencils for your standardized tests? Now you know.) Jane says the pencils were the most boring part of the summer, at least until she realized "you can sharpen pencils and read Lady Chatterley's Lover at the same time...After that I listened to the Grateful Dead because my boss went on vacation...
...although Jane says she would never, never, never do it again, she did gain some valuable experience. She left Chicago with two 50-page reports--all about how much ninth and tenth graders love their math books--and the ability to complete, with help from the other bored research assistant, the Chicago Tribune crossword puzzle in 10 minutes...