Word: placement
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...those who like introductions, small talk and playing the name game, it's a blast. Every day is an opportunity to meet a future spouse, or at least a first girlfriend or boyfriend. Besides taking placement tests, the only responsibilities are socializing and more socializing...
Less boppy students will describe orientationweek as an "ordeal," or at least call it "weird."They find the placement tests too challenging,idiotic and numerous, and the ice-breaker eventstoo shallow. Thehi-what's-your-name-where-are-you-from-what's-your-dorm-well-nice-to-meet-you mantra growsold very quickly, and the days become a blur ofcookouts, sweaty parties and fierce scamming...
Generally, the first episode of the orientationweek placement test series is the famousExpository Writing Test, in which first yearsstruggle to recall their admissions essays, whichmust have impressed someone over at Byerly Hall.Now they must once again impress someone--thistime in the Expos Department--so that they can getinto a decent semester-long writing class andavoid Expos 10, the year-long alternative for theless prosaically-inclined...
...remember placing the two women together but said she would have been likely to match them because of their similarities. Both were pre-meds and biology concentrators. "The fact that they chose to room together the second year, I would have considered that to be a successful placement," Finn said...
...since 1979," says Harper's Bazaar editor in chief Elizabeth Tilberis. "I've known Karl Lagerfeld since 1968. I've known Gianni Versace since 1974. You've grown up with these people, and they'll always be friends. But it absolutely does not affect your editorial judgment or their placement of ads." And how meaningful is one little Chanel outfit presented gratuit to someone who doesn't pay for her clothes anyway? "I have a very generous clothing allowance," says Vogue's editor in chief Anna Wintour. "But if a designer gives me something, I absolutely have no problem with...