Word: lot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Personally, there's still a lot for me to learn," Brown said after the game, "but I'm happy with the way things have developed...
Nevertheless, most students who write a thesis seem to agree that there is "something" about it that makes writing one a little more nerve-wracking and a lot more time-consuming than simply writing a long paper...
Several other seniors mentioned that their decision to write a thesis was partly because it represents a challenge, as probably the longest and most difficult piece of work of their four years here. Almost everyone, whatever their reason for writing a thesis, a agreed it would be a lot of work...
...thesis is really just a long paper," says Rosenblum, "but it takes a lot of energy and worry," Many students write 30 page papers in one semester, she points out--so why not 60 pages in two semesters? The key, according to Rosenblum, is to start on the writing before all the research is completed; otherwise, she says, "you have a thousand file cards and notes, and you sit down over Christmas vacation, and it's overwhelming." She admits that it is difficult to write while one is still doing research, but not impossible if every book read is related...
Wiseman reveals that the Zonians, for all their manic patriotic ardor, are a rootless and unhappy lot; their crime and child-abuse rates are well above the mainland rates. Canal Zone thus becomes a study in how Americanism when isolated and left to feed on itself can become a desperate form of mass escapism-and, as such, it is an ingenious cautionary tale. -Frank Rich