Word: paper
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Suddenly, however, in sophomore year it didn't seem so true. For starters, I was getting more involved in activities, and once in a while started to cut corners, like not reading for section, starting a paper the night before it was due and eventually not studying for a midterm at all. Before long I was not doing well anymore, but at the same time I was not doing badly. I was the queen of the perpetual B and B+. I was rather pleased with my new skill--give classes my least, unless something particularly interesting was happening and forgetting...
...problem was, I couldn't. By junior year, when I resolved to buckle down again, my grades didn't budge. I was taking classes I liked, but I didn't seem to be turning in anything that TFs thought was much better than an Expos paper. Stubbornly, I took on long final papers to try to prove myself, but I ended up with the worst semester...
None of this seemed to make sense until a very strange thing happened to me about a week ago. I got back a couple of papers, and, strangely enough, I did quite well. I know my classes are even harder this year--what could be the difference? Suddenly, it occurred to me that I did one simple thing differently when I went about writing these: I did not write for the sake of getting it over with so I could do more exciting things than my academics, but rather I got excited about creating something that made me proud...
...this probably seems to be common sense. I am sure these are lessons that many of you learned long before you were seniors. But this time of year, my epiphany might serve to help you get through that tedious lab or that long final paper. So before you drop that flask and curse your TF, remember that we are here for the process, not for the product. The rest will take care of itself...
...postcampaign life as well. Through an intermediary, he urged Dole to especially go after the New York Times during his bash-the-liberal-media phase. Sources say Buckley was peeved at Times coverage and sought revenge. But he wants his role kept secret, since he is worried that the paper will pay him back with bad reviews for the novels he writes...