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...wasn't just the schoolwork, either. My suitewas not exactly conducive to broadening one'ssocial horizons. Christopher firmly believed inbeing asocial as a way of life, except when itcame to women. His high school girlfriend was alsoat Harvard and, until they started having troublelater in the fall, I barely knew who he was. Wecalled him the phantom roommate. Takashi mainlydid his own thing. and then there was Bigley. Kenwas a special case. he really struggled hisfirstyear--spent most of his time in the roomhunched over the desk, springing up to lookthrough the eyehole every time he heard somethingin the hall...
Take Cabot Science Library. In the bowels of the building is a netherworld of wooden desks known as "pre-med row," where the future physicians of America bury themselves in their schoolwork...
From September to May, schoolwork has come first, but Shedroff has reserved his summers exclusively for music. Since his freshman year, he has spent summers playing jazz, either in California or in Boston at the highly respected Berklee School of Music...
...long as the war continues to loom in the back of people's minds like "static in the background," the usual student concerns about schoolwork and jobs will just become more complicated, says Suzanne Repetto, the associate director of the Bureau and a counselor there...
Growing up in Shelby, Mont., Horner collected his first dinosaur fossil at the age of eight, and he set out in high school to become either a paleontologist or the next Wernher Von Braun. His schoolwork was wretched, but he excelled at science projects. One, presented to a small group of bored adults at the local airport, was an experiment to track the flight of a homemade rocket. It went up 15,000 ft. at a velocity of 800 m.p.h., and the memory of his gaping elders still gratifies Horner, who scraped through high school with a D average...