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...Sweet Hereafter has earned two Academy Award nominations. Another film, drawn from his novel Affliction and starring Nick Nolte, is ready for distribution. He smiles. Equal to equal, a diamond stud in his left ear glinting encouragingly, he addresses the 11 Princeton freshmen and sophomores in this creative-writing seminar as "writers...
Grad students. From undergraduates, these words often invite a mixture of scorn and fear. Yet contrary to popular belief, grad students are not actually evil. It's just that they do the reserve reading. If you look at a syllabus from a graduate-level seminar, you may be astonished to learn that most of then assign no tangible work whatsoever except for a final exam or other project due at the end of the term. Lo, take heed, ye foolish undergraduates, and learn ye the Ways of the 200-Level Course. You see, in graduate school, they no longer have...
Perhaps no incident can better describe the feeling of being in over one's head than my experience shopping for classes this semester. I was interested in a particular seminar, although I suspected that my preparation for the course might not quite be up to par. But in the hazy glow of shopping week, I decided to give it a try. I hiked over to the classroom, hidden deep within that strangely inaccessible ring of studies and offices in Widener Library, and pushed open the door. As I scanned the faces of the ten people in the room, I recognized...
Jayaraman and Neree ended the seminar by creating a hypothetical non-profit organization and outlining the procedure for achieving non-profit status...
Having acknowledged the difficulties of starting a non-profit organization, Jayaraman said she was happy to be given the chance to hold the seminar...