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...were calmer as we sat on my bed together, looking over a sourcebook on Arab culture, examining a single set of facts and coming to a single set of conclusions...
...toting and Nalgene swigging A-List (forget Chanel, the oversized waterbottle really is exam season’s must-have accessory). This glittering and perhaps rather mythical group, presumed to signpost their academic career with Detur at one end and Hoopes at the other and a whole lotta fluorescent sourcebook underlining in-between, are clearly delineated from The Rest Of Us, who find the silence of the library a little unnerving, typically set the alarm for 6 a.m. the day of an exam (“two and a half hours should be enough to learn the entire course?...
...typical Harvard discussion section, in all its awkward-silence-filled, unread and uninformed glory. Such a line of conversation amongst friends usually plays out in a fairly predictable way. Everyone in the group groans loudly in disgust at predictable tropes like The Freshman, who has highlighted the entire sourcebook (with annotations!); The Jaded Thesis-Writing Senior, usually hailing from Social Studies or Hist and Lit, who stumbles in at 17 minutes past the hour (if at all) draped in flannel pajamas with artfully styled bed-head hair; and of course The Pass/Fail Dilettante, who uses his thick-as-a-doorstop...
...intention that students here would have to pay publishing fees for copies of his works. And Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology Steven Pinker has managed to obtain a special waiver of royalties and publishers’ fees for the reprints of his own book used in the sourcebook for his class, this agreement only holds because he is the instructor and it doesn’t give him power over fees for other classes, let alone at other schools...
...addition, he plans to make exams easier to prepare for by drawing all exam questions from the study questions in the sourcebook...