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...applications and interest across campus.That holdout is Teach for America, which is not only weathering the financial storm, but using the market turbulence as an opportunity for growth.In the midst of the financial crisis, more seniors are putting their hopes for corporate employment on hold and reexamining their career options. Many of those seniors are finding their way to Teach for America.Colette J. Hinckley ’09 started her job search as many upperclassmen do—with corporate positions—but soon realized her opportunities were narrowing.“I knew that [corporations] were not recruiting...
...would give me the space, time, and means to do that,” Rizzo said.As an experienced park ranger, Rizzo said he was also attracted to India because of its proximity to the Himalayas and opportunities for mountaineering.WHY MARRY?Cidre, who had originally discounted the fellowship as an option until three weeks before the application due date, will be studying marriage choices in Chile.Chile has the fifth lowest divorce rate in the world and divorce was illegal until 2004, according to Cidre, who is also an inactive member of the Crimson’s Business Board...
This year, the Season of Giving has also coughed up an abundance of holiday-themed applications for the iPhone - scores of them. There are, for instance, various gift-buying apps that range from Better Christmas List ($2.99), which tracks your budget (and recently added a "much-requested passcode lock option") to Hanukah Holiday List ($1.99), which is made by the same dude and does exactly the same thing (but costs, inexplicably, a buck less). Or check out the free GPS Christmas List, which sends you an alert when you're near a store that sells something on your list...
...Schuster, who went through the Cambridge public school system, said his parents transferred him when he was in the sixth grade from the Maria L. Baldwin School to the Longfellow School—one of two schools that later merged to become Kennedy-Longfellow—for its ISP option. According to Schuster, the upper grades at Baldwin were not perceived to be as academically strong at the time...
...Moreover, the information surrounding the option to opt out of paying the fee is quite inconsistent. This year’s Handbook for Students defines the UC fee and describes the opt-out process as “checking the appropriate box” on one’s July student bill. However, the termbill Web site explains that students must handwrite a letter and send it to the Student Receivables Office by September 30th. The printed information in the Handbook for Students mentions no such cut-off date and nothing about a letter. Having to fact-check the Handbook...