Word: prospection
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...season. It was Senior Day, prefrosh weekend, and Alumni Day—when some Crimson lacrosse legends returned to their roots—all combined into one at Harvard Stadium. And if the crowd of nearly 3,000 fans wasn’t enough motivation for the Crimson, the prospect of qualifying for the Ivy League tournament was a compelling reason to leave it all out on the field...
...team is arranged around a box of Dunkin’ Donuts, talking logistics and gossip. Feliz-Taveras is getting excited at the prospect of publicizing to prefrosh: “We want to show people that Harvard is fun,” she exclaims...
...eight different phrasings of the same question to finally find out what to do with the census form. It’s as though we are stuck in a new era of gold mining, filtering out the majority of what we see just to gratify ourselves with a pertinent prospect here and there. The lists often seem to be abused for casual conversation, and this abuse is something that many list members could do without. Personal views on a game of Assassins versus a game of Humans vs. Zombies, however strong, do not need to be broadcasted to the masses...
...many students, the thought of going to section as opposed to enjoying the increasingly warm weather is enough to make them cringe. The prospect of attending a section in which the Teaching Fellow has an accent so pronounced that it is challenging to understand even the simplest phrases is even more unappealing. Even when the problem is not the language itself, many foreign TFs have trouble understanding things like extracurricular commitments and why students occasionally eat in class...
...English proficiency requirement might leave some departments lacking TFs, but there should be a stream of potential TFs who are willing to take the course as a prerequisite to their teaching positions, thus lessening the chances of a TF shortage. Perhaps previous graduate students who were discouraged by the prospect of teaching a class without a solid grasp of the English language and American culture would be more likely to apply to be a TF, knowing they would receive support and training from such a class...