Word: rested
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Predictions: You’ll spend days sitting on your bed watching lecture videos, since you stopped going to class in March. You’ll study less, but still get a B+. You will arrive back home paler and smarter than the rest of your high school friends...
...Your second day of freshman week will likely begin with language placement tests. Rest assured that they are indeed harder than SAT IIs (or just tell yourself that after you receive a 500 on the exam after taking 7 years of high school Spanish). Then you’ll have a mandatory lunch with your academic adviser, who might happen to be helpful, engaged, and appropriately matched to your interests—but more likely not. Make the best of what you get, and consider scheduling a second appointment to ask specific questions about classes and scheduling. If your professor...
...Spend the rest of your week relaxing and hanging out with people in the yard. Consider checking out the a capella jam, but approach Harvard comedy events with caution. And please, don’t do too much homework...
...Maybe no one has made the right case for legacies. Sure, their SAT scores may be, on average, slightly higher than the rest of the applicant pool. They may come predominantly from white, wealthy, prep-school backgrounds. Admitting them may encourage their parents to donate large sums of money to the college. But these are separate considerations. Maybe legacies deserve a second glance simply because they are legacies...
...similar—and, by the way, you can probably get an extension on these if you try. Anything that’s worth over 25 percent of your grade should be taken very seriously. If you make sure not to mess around with the big stuff, the rest can be done more haphazardly. Slacking on the important, high-value assignments is not efficiency, but stupidity...