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Drew Burke is pre-med at Johns Hopkins. As a scholarship student from working-class roots in New Orleans, he knows what it is to struggle, but he is drawn to the fast and easy life of his pampered friends--Bahar Richards, a rich bitch who spins friends into enemies almost as quickly as she spends money and Jake, her hot hunky brother, an architecture major at Franklin & Marshall, lean and tanned from working building sites all across the country. Drew feels like Bahar is part of his soul--he would do anything for her. And when it comes...
...thing they will have seen at all the colleges they visit is an "a cappella jam." Harvard features a cappella performance, as does Yale, Brown, Stanford, Tufts, and University of California at Berkeley, among others. In fact, the only other constant across the board is a pre-med information session. Pre-frosh cannot help coming away with the impression that college is about two things: catchy harmonizing and organic chemistry...
...likely to require only a 300-MHz processor, already standard in today's bargain-basement PCs. So M. Lewis Temares, vice president of information technology at the University of Miami, figures that besides a few university officials who need high-octane processors for such things as complex med-school accounting software, his people are fine with the hardware in place. And his job is to buy computers--typically 6,000 PCs a year. Right now, he says, "nothing is driving us to upgrade." Experts call it the "good enough" syndrome, as in "My computer's good enough...
...addition to writing a mathematics thesis on knot theory, Oreskovich is also fulfilling pre-med requirements. With plans to acquire both a Ph.D. in mathematics and a M.D., she is applying to graduate schools and medical schools this year and has already been accepted at Cornell...
...schools," motivating its students by any means necessary--namely bullying and psychological abuse. According to the publicist, thrust into this atmosphere Jane somehow manages to "retreat deeper into a body and spirit she no longer recognizes," eventually emerging determined to succeed. This book is really a high school pre-med's fairy tale disguised as a Bildungsroman...