Word: paper
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Namely the Brown Bears (9-28, 4-8), losers of seven straight Ivy games, and the Crimson's second straight weekend of Red Rolfe divisional play. On paper, the matchups look as one-sided as they did in last season's four game sweep at Providence, but that, as they say, is why they play the games...
...paper, we were better than Columbia, too, and you saw what happened there," said junior righthander Andrew Duffell. "When the weekend rolls around, it all depends on who comes to play...
...never tried. Not that I'd admit to be printed in the paper, anyway...
...limited number of instances in adult life, the This Paper Sucks syndrome may still be useful to its sufferers. After grades become a thing of the past, many people start using money as a litmus test for whether they have succeeded, as companies and even universities lure the "best of the best" with higher and higher salaries. Twenty years from now, perhaps we will find ourselves being evaluated for promotions or being ranked by our students or by our professional peers. But no test will await us on our first, fifth or tenth wedding anniversaries to determine whether our marriages...
...only way to alleviate this damage is to practice being accurate judges of our own abilities again, deciding how well we did on that paper without changing our minds after we get it back with a grade. We have to know when we've done a good job without relying on someone else to validate us. If we don't know how to do that, we're in trouble; ultimately, we are the only ones who will care...