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When Harvard’s current undergraduates were born, the idea of a campus connected by lightning-quick Ethernet connections—building multi-media projects and watching lectures on personal computers—was science fiction. But two decades later it has become wasteful for students to use pencil, paper and legwork to register for their courses at the start of the term or to add and drop them later on. Call it laziness, or call it efficiency, but a website on which students could carry out these time-consuming necessities from the comfort of their dorms would work...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Register.Harvard.Edu | 10/31/2003 | See Source »

...dictate stories into tape recorders and persuade friends to help haul a bulky mattress up a flight of stairs. These unorthodox tasks are designed to measure the creative and practical skills that Sternberg says are crucial to success in college and in life but are ignored by the typical pencil-and-paper exam. If Sternberg succeeds in quantifying these types of intelligence--and linking them to concrete accomplishments--his efforts may change forever the way colleges pick their students...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Beyond The New SAT: Testing That Je Ne Sais Quoi | 10/27/2003 | See Source »

...sketches in ink, pencil and watercolor reveal the artist’s working process. Condo says they’re for the students for his intermediate painting course next semester...

Author: By Zhenzhen Lu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Visuals Review | 10/24/2003 | See Source »

...Travel Scrabble Naturally, you'll also have to pack a pocket dictionary if you don't want etymological arguments to break out mid-flight. A built-in scoring device does away with the need for pencil and paper in this road version of the classic word game. $43.30 from amazon.co.uk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Long Haul | 10/20/2003 | See Source »

...rainy day in September of my sophomore year, I spent the better share of a day running back and forth between my third-floor room in Currier and the courtyard along Garden Street with a pencil, a compass and a screwdriver. My suitemate, Charles, screamed down instructions as I wrestled our satellite dish into place, adjusted it to compensate for the somewhat ‘untraditional’ orientation of Currier House with respect to the cardinal directions and fastened it to the mortar of the courtyard’s retaining wall with some ad-hoc combination of wood chips...

Author: By Philip Sherrill, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: News You Can't Really Use | 10/16/2003 | See Source »

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