Word: points
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Tell me about your heroine, Kinsey Milhone. What is she like? I claim she is a loner, and she is to a certain extent. She's perfectly happy in her own company. She says at one point, "I am not half of something looking for the other half." She's been married and divorced twice. She also says, "I keep my guard up along with my underpants." So she's careful about sexual connections with guys because to her it represents a hazard. She likes working for herself. She's persistent. She's curious. She's not above breaking...
...first time, he was a member of a squad composed nearly entirely of professionals. He started against Haiti and scored three goals, one on a header. That summer, he played in the U-20 World Cup in Canada, helping the U.S. advance to the quarterfinals. At this point, he had played with and against some of the best soccer talents in the world. He had also just finished his freshman year at Harvard...
...He’s always been the courageous person to speak out and to make sure that his point is heard,” says Smith’s roommate Jia Hui Lee ’12. “It’s great because there are not many students who identify as trans at Harvard, so having him speak out and voice certain views is very, very important...
...solid frame and confident walk, Brito looks more likely to spend his day carbo-loading for a track and field meet than working through abstract math problem sets in the library. Ask him to explain “A Universal Degree Bound for Rings of Invariants of n Point Configurations Modulo Torus Actions,” and that stereotype quickly disappears. But his understanding of the theorem shouldn’t come as a surprise, considering that he proved it this past summer with two professors in a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program at the University of Michigan...
...public high school where the highest math is [AP Calculus AB],” said Brito. “But the stuff that I do, I can’t imagine doing in high school. With abstract math, a lot seems applicable at first and then at some point the numbers go away—I haven’t seen one on a pset since sophomore year...