Word: midterms
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...longer does the threat of a midterm draw students to class. Section quizzes on lecture material mean not a thing. Forever gone are hand cramps, loose-leaf paper, lost pen caps and spiral notebooks; a syllabus to follow the reading material and a computer with Internet access provide a more compact and complete explanation of the course...
Some were successful--I'm still writing for the Crimson--and some weren't: my first Chem 5 midterm reflected my lackluster study habits. Which brings me to my first piece of advice: Use your first year to try it all. Sign up for 800 organizations. Meet as many people as you can. By the end of the first month, you'll end up figuring out what you want...
...Hilles Library (you'll trek there soon enough, my friend). She "lost" one of my assignments, a political cartoon we had to draw, and later "found" it all crumpled up at the bottom of her briefcase. She said I did not know how to write a midterm essay...
...there were any doubt that President Clinton would survive this latest crisis, that doubt was buried along with the slew of losing Republican candidates in the midterm elections. While presumably Congress must go through the motions dictated by law, nobody believes that these impeachment hearings will conclude in any serious result. They are a waste of time and, quite frankly, an embarrassment...
...will be with you after your thesis is done. No, don't take a class with a professor who refuses to give you an extension on the 15-page paper due the same day as your thesis. But also don't eliminate a class just because it has a midterm early on. When you're done with your thesis it's not pleasant to face three postponed midterms, eight papers and finals worth 65 percent or more of the course grade--especially if you only took the classes in the first place so that you could focus on your thesis...