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Dates: during 1970-1979
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People like Toland increase your sense that the only difference between players and administrators at Boylston Street is a few years in between. Because students who go there regularly have to be part of the sports program, they have a lot more in common with staffers than one finds in most student-administration interaction. Most of the people who work on the second floor of the building reflect this easy-going attitude. In one office, several administrators toss a nurf ball around while they discuss health insurance policies, while a conversation about the IAB filters through opposite ends...
...several other University offices before she ended up at Boylston Street, and now she says she wouldn't work anywhere else. People there are friendly and relaxed, she says, and she has a chance to get to know students in ways she couldn't in most places. A lot of staffers seem to agree with her, and the turnover at the building is minimal. Four years ago, five women retired who between them had racked up a total of well over 100 years with the Athletic Department. And of the five people who replaced them, only one has left...
...couldn't see lasting out the semester. Most everyone I spoke to was encouraging about taking time off, although I was also given a sense that I shouldn't just abandon the semester. So I decided to stick it out for the last few weeks, and I got a lot of support from friends, from my senior tutor, and from the Bureau of Study Counsel...
...Washington with Senator John McClellan (D-Arkansas) became available. She stayed with the job right up until a few weeks ago, and in many respects it turned out to be exactly what she needed. Although at first she was assigned to mundane office tasks, as is often the lot of interns in large capitol offices, she was soon given responsibility for research on solar energy projects, a particular interest of McClellan's. Between reading documents, writing reports, and traveling back to Arkansas for hearings, she became involved in her work and conscious of a return of confidence in herself, particularly...
...Naturally, the advice is always sound. Instead of taking a course in speed reading, Edwin suggests, read more selectively. Take breaks to change the tempo and ease the tension of work. Say no a lot, because "you cannot protect your priorities unless you learn to decline, tactfully but firmly, every request that does not contribute to your goal." One can fight procrastination, too, by (a) chopping up ominously large tasks into easily manageable small components; (b) listing the reasons for delay on one side of a piece of paper and the benefits from completing the job on the other...