Word: studious
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...school seemed like the place to go if you don’t know that,” he continues.He had spent years treating music as a release and consciously shirking the fundamentals. “I wish I were 10 percent as focused and studious with music as I was as a student at the university,” he says.” I have a lot of conditioning against that.”Little by little, discipline has crept into his music. When he decided to pursue music as a career, Redman realized that it was time...
...that they’re not calling us, which is part of the problem,” he says, declining to comment on FAS IT’s budget plan for fixing these wireless problems and beginning renovations.Furthermore, while FAS may not be slowing your studious Internet endeavors, Selsby notes that Harvard is purposely tempering Internet related activities that “don’t have a direct academic purpose.”“There are certain types of applications which we specifically limit, like file-sharing apps,” he says...
...Mellor ’08 says that Lamont is the best library for discreet make-out sessions because it’s “so boring and dry and miserable, that you have to do something to make it interesting.” Lamont’s studious atmosphere means that prospective neckers can even hide in plain sight. Campus sex blogger Lena Chen ’09 says that she once smooched with a gay friend on the third floor of Lamont without anyone noticing. But campus kissing is hardly confined to the libraries. Mellor says that...
Which took another 15 years. He was part of a comedy troupe at Knott's Berry Farm, studied philosophy at Cal State at Long Beach and played banjo (another of his studious obsessions) with guitarist Mason Williams, who'd had an instrumental pop hit, Classical Gas. Williams helped him get a writing job on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, for which Martin won an Emmy at 23. But what he really wanted to do was stand-up--to have people laugh not at the jokes he wrote for others but at and with...
...Charles and they said that it was good food too.” Yongwoo D. Seo ’08 said he went to the pub “from time to time” and that he enjoyed the beer selection offered. He said he remembered when studious undergrads crammed for tests in the space where the pub is now located. “I just feel kind of bad for the nerds that used to be here. Because where did they go?” Seo said. At least one enthusiastic attendee went even further to demonstrate...