Word: mathes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...make kids aware of how they are caught up in the system," she explains. For example, activities in summer 1984 included games and tutoring in reading and math as well as visits with Cambridge City Councilors Saundra Graham and Alfred E. Vellucci and traveling south for the March on Washington, Dixon says...
...wasn't that they were all from the east coast. I'm from Westchester. It wasn't that they were all Irish. But how can anybody with brains put three jocks with a poor Korean kid whose high school athletic achievement went no further than a membership on its math team? And I was terrible even at that...
...sure, this is not Oklahoma or Ohio State; there are no athletic scholarships, or at least none that anyone is willing to speak of. But almost all will admit there are some students in Cambridge who have better athletic skills than math skills. Bok will always find more athletes who are "smart as hell," but he'll also find some who aren...
...argument at the Department of Athletics and the admissions office is that these big-time athletes enhance Harvard's esteemed diversity, and they're right. In an atmosphere that prides itself as one of the most diverse in the world, football stars are as important as math stars...
...obsessed most of my first year with doing well. I didn't just want to get 'A's; I wanted the highest mark in each of my courses. It worked. In both math and chemistry, I got the highest grade of all 350 or so students in each class. I never did any of the fun things, or had any of the wild times that you may be reading about in other essays in this issue. Why was I working so hard? Why didn't I go to parties or just hang out? Why would I tell my friends Friday...