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...creative thesis titled “’If Answerable Style I Can Obtain...’: An Analysis and Account of Illustrating Paradise Lost” — a film noir-style graphic rethinking of John Milton’s classic poem, which won Chiang a summa cum laude reading and a Hoopes Prize. Damrosch remembers Chiang as one of his all-time favorite students because of his “no bullshit” attitude and self-confidence, he says. Not knowing how to apply his joint degree, Chiang applied to law school, and even though...
...psychologist Alex Todorov shows that we form opinions about a person with a 100-millisecond glance at the face alone. What's more, you can't even blame your higher brain for such bias. The impulse seems to arise in the primitive amygdala. If your prefrontal cortex is your summa cum laude lobe, the amygdala is Barney Rubble. Says Todorov: "This is a case of a high-level judgment being made by a low-level brain structure...
While Tribe was brilliant, he was not particularly serious—his summa cum laude thesis in mathematics, for example, was written in two weeks, Alschuler says...
...time, as was Andrea. "She used two or three words and I didn't know what they were." Perhaps for fear of embarrassing him, she did not tell him then that she had been high school valedictorian. He had been a popular jock in high school--and a summa cum laude graduate of Auburn University. There were secrets she would never tell him. Her boldness was rooted in desperation: she had not dated until she turned 23, and she was getting over a romantic breakup. Only after her arrest, he says, did he learn of it from her psychiatric records...
Sixty-six candidates, who constitute 4 percent of the Class of 2006, earned summa cum laude diplomas, the highest degree bestowed by the College, in their fields of concentration. Fifty-five graduates will receive magna cum laude with highest honors, based on their entire coursework and overall grade point average, and 199 will be given magna cum laude in their fields of concentration...