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...have seen me around town, I’m sure you’ve noticed me wearing my "Harvard Mom" sweatshirt and hat, and sipping out of my "Harvard Mom" mug. Needless to say, we are quite proud of our twins, Ashley and Jessica, who are now enjoying their first years at Harvard University. Ashley is really adjusting very well. Unfortunately, Harvard’s grading system is such that she cannot maintain her lifetime 4.5 GPA, but she’s slowly getting over that. Boy, are we proud of Ashley?...
...always wanted a tattoo,” Chu says. Her father, Wah Chu, made her a promise, she says: if she made the Olympic team in 2002, she could get one, and he would, too. “He upholds his deals,” Chu explains. Her mom, brother, and sister all got inked with matching tattoos—colored Olympic rings surrounding the number 13, Chu’s jersey number. It’s hard to play hockey for a living as a woman, so Chu says she thinks she’ll play in Canada?...
...knew I didn’t really fit in [at Everett] but I knew there was a place I did fit into. All of my life, I would ask my mom when we’d move back to Martha’s Vineyard...
...original version: plastic body parts children would stick into a real potato from Mom's kitchen
Learn the names of all the rivers in South America. That was the assignment given to Deborah Stipek's daughter Meredith in school, and her mom, who's dean of the Stanford University School of Education, was not impressed. "That's silly," Stipek told her daughter. "Tell your teacher that if you need to know anything besides the Amazon, you can look it up on Google." Any number of old-school assignments--memorizing the battles of the Civil War or the periodic table of the elements--now seem faintly absurd. That kind of information, which is poorly retained unless...