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Those choices—even the ones made with a passing glance at a mini-calendar during our opening days—seem now so big that their impact is hard to fathom. How would super-studious me have compared to my present self? What about Crimson Dance Team me? The version of myself with a favorite chair in Lamont or the one with a favorite shortcut to the MAC are so different that I cannot fully imagine the impact my choices here—extracurricular, social, academic—have...
...Shah Dev was a very, very studious student," Tung adds. "He knew he was being groomed to be the king...
...superior students become objects of local pride. A-bian was the finest student Tainan County had ever seen. "He was always the brightest in his classes," says Chen Chia-cheng, his sixth-grade teacher. "He used to finish his homework for the night before lunchtime." His classmates recall a studious, diminutive boy, annoyingly prim, his hand shooting up to provide correct answers to teachers' queries. The takeaway from his childhood successes: as long as you have boned up on whatever subject is at hand, you will succeed. That principle carried him through a successful career as a lawyer and eventually...
...county had ever seen, his intelligence and perspicacity as obvious and tangible as an Olympic sprinter's speed. "He was always the brightest in his classes," says Chen Chia-cheng, his sixth-grade teacher. "He used to finish his homework for the night before lunchtime." His classmates recall a studious, diminutive boy, annoyingly prim, his hand shooting up to provide correct answers to teachers' queries. "He never picked a fight," says Chen Wen-chuan, an elementary-school classmate who still lives in the township, "because he knew he would lose if he did." He was the kind of student whose...