Word: studious
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...Darius Mehrjui's Iranian film Bemani tells of three women in circumstances that are extreme but not, alas, unusual: an Iraqi who befriends an Iranian soldier and is beheaded by her outraged father; a studious Iranian who doesn't tell her father she's taking pre-med courses and is beaten by him; a third girl hit by her father because she chatted with a shepherd, then forced into a loveless marriage with a rich man who will pay her family's rent. The last two women set themselves on fire in protest and despair. Yet the film can also...
...disparity between students who do and don’t procrastinate becomes more conspicuous during reading period than during any other time of the year. The studious types, for example, eat their dinner at 5 p.m. when the dining hall opens, looking for any excuse to take a break from their mountain of work. The procrastinators are the ones pulling all-nighters—even when they haven’t had another thing to do for a week...
...They don’t exist. When Cliffies still graced the Quad, Hilles was the hot spot on campus. Harvard men would make the long trek north to study with the young women of Radcliffe. At times during their vigorous studying they could work up quite an appetite. These studious individuals could then repair to the top floor for snacks and conversation. All that remains today are two uninspired soda machines (what does a man have to do to get some half-and-half?) and the boarded up remnants of a grill...
Currier housed a large portion of the pre-med population, while Quincy attracted many hard science concentrators. Lowell and Dunster House were also traditionally studious...
...bumper crowd of little kids, with parents in the hallway trying to get a glimpse of them," recalls Rob Leider, assistant principal at the school, West Bloomfield High. His heart went out to these youngsters: "They seemed pretty studious. But when they finished and came out of the rooms, they were little kids lost in a big building, looking for their mothers...