Word: signalã
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...long ago, some experts questioned the usefulness of higher education, claiming it essentially fails to increase students’ productivity and reviving the theory that we use our degrees to merely “signal?? skills or ability to employers, with actual learning taking place on the job. It was therefore reassuring to talk to an experienced professor recently who told me about his first experience of teaching a freshman seminar. Prior to teaching freshmen, he only worked with upperclassmen and his new teaching assignment allowed him to realize one thing. Apparently, we may be more enthusiastic...
...memorize your fictional genealogy and bring certificates to prove your earldom and castle ownership. If this is not enough of a splash to keep you in the game, we suggest that she come in a wheelchair, and when the moment is right give her “the signal?? to stand up and boogie. Everybody loves an underdog. When dancing with her, grind in a clockwise manner as is befitting a gentleman. Then comes the final dinner where they separate the men from the boys, the bourgeois from the landed gentry, the ribosomes from the other organelles...
...Real World represents the end of our exceptionality as Harvard students. In this sense, a Harvard education is meaningless in the Real World except as a signal??a more maneuverable parachute—that may propel us ahead. Of course, signals have two sides. What propels us ahead also burdens us with others’ expectations. It is in these expectations, I think, that the true meaning of a Harvard education lies. In fighting to show others that we deserved our vaunted diplomas, we will be driven to excel, and to excess. The gnawing self-doubt that follows...
...building coverage is always a challenge because construction material impacts the signal??s ability to penetrate the building,” said Mark J. Elliott, a spokesman for Sprint...
Then at once the road reappeared. Beep…beep! My phone lit up. It has found a faint signal??just one bar, but enough to call home. As I parked to talk with my mum, I kept the engine running and left the headlights on. I told her about the people I met that day and the glaciers I would visit tomorrow. She asked me all the usual questions, to which I gave all my usual answers. But this time it was different—I carefully considered each question before replying. Through the encompassing darkness...