Word: quist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There were difficulties at first. "I gave thefirst exam to all classes at once. Four hundredexams! I never finished correcting them all. Afterthat I staggered the tests." The laboratory was sohot that Quist says he turned the lights off tokeep the heat bearable. He arranged field trips tolocal factories and taught the text in his ownorder. "I love teaching," he says. "I'd like to doit again someday...
...Quist decided to change his major. Anacceptance letter from Harvard convinced him toleave Ghana as well. He says that to save oninternational postage, the admissions office senthim just one sheet of paper with some pictures ofHarvard and a list of activities, not the usualbulky envelop stuffed with fliers from everyextracurricular group. he got his first view ofHarvard as a member of dorm crew...
...always been a foreigner," says Quist. Hismother, a nurse from Jamaica, met his father, adoctor from Ghana, while the two were studying inEngland. Quist's family lived in a Midlands towncalled Lemmington Spa until he was eight, whenthey moved to Accra...
...feel that I could live anywhere," he says.Although he calls no place home, Quist seems ableto feel at home wherever...
Over lunch, Quist considers what activity hasmeant most to him at Harvard. He mulls it over,can't decide. "I guess what I've enjoyed most isthe way the community works," he finally says."I've been able to do lots of things, I've lovedthat...