Word: problems
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pierce said the deficit problem could have been avoided if warnings had been heeded two years ago that state spending was out of control...
This is not, of course, what I wanted to hear. After all, what right did this professor have to tell me how much work I should be doing? I could just as easily have chosen a lighter courseload and not had the problem of having to do two 10-pagers, a 12- to 15-page one, and a 30-page tutorial essay due for the end of the term, and he could not have done anything about...
...course, after my indignation subsided, I realized that it is his responsibility to worry about my workload--he is, after all, my professor, and I am his student. But the issue does not end here. The problem is, in fact, something altogether different from concern for my academic development. The problem is that, as the dual submission policy now stands, the University is punishing students for being honest...
...course, my professor could reply to my complaints by arguing that I should not have taken the classes I did. The problem then is that I would be choosing my courses solely on the basis of the workload involved. Although this is a compromise all students must make every term, it is certainly not an inclination professors should encourage. If faced with a choice between taking a more demanding courseload while dual submitting one paper and taking a bunch of guts, I think that most professors would want students to choose the former...
...have not convinced you. You remain in Cambridge, wallowing in problem sets and self-pity...