Word: sleepless
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...frazzled air and sleepless gaze are the hallmarks of students suffering from reading and exam periods and coffee is the thing that keeps them going--and this year the Harvard dining halls will again have coffee available after dinner onwards during reading and exam periods to satisfy the stepped-up demand...
Imagine for a while the situation of a fellow student suddenly cracking up. After reading Rosen you'll be uncomfortably aware of how psychobabble neutralizes some of your vocabulary. Nevertheless, imagine the person (maybe under academic pressure, maybe losing a lover) sleepless, getting awful stomach-aches, or turning unaccustomedly anti-social. He or she traipses to UHS where the M.D.'s initial response might simply be "Go play some tennis, relax...
...distrust them both. Stars such as Catcher Thurman Munson and Outfielder Mickey Rivers asked to be traded. The pitchers were often in revolt against the manager and each other. But the Yankees somehow were too talented not to endure. At season's end Martin, for all his sleepless nights, looked like a managing genius. And Steinbrenner, for all the ridicule he took from his manager and the press about his Prussian discipline, had boldly lifted the Yankee franchise back to solid profits and even some renewed glory...
...then write a senior thesis, and face the prospect of long days in the library during the winter, and sleepless nights at the typewriter in April? No two people have exactly the same reasons, but graduating with honors is an obvious motive for writing one, a motive stressed by many thesis writers interviewed last week...
From frogs to DNA, from Washington to Lebanon, thesis topics range widely. Writing a thesis can be a tremendous challenge, and for many people offers a welcome chance to study a subject in great depth. But, for others, a thesis means only sleepless nights and blank pages in the typewriter...