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...graduated Harvard summa cum laude, and rather than immediately take a job, decided instead to join the army...
...same perfectionism that impelled him forward in the Lampoon lay behind this academic success. He researched a thesis called “Non-Horatian Elements in Robert Herrick’s Imitations and Echoes of Horace” and was frustrated when it didn’t snag a summa grade...
...baseball diamond, Harvard students’ ability to bend the Organization Kid stereotype often presented itself in everyday college life. There was the spacey mid-Westerner roommate, with hours of video game playing under his belt and a summa cum laude thesis under a pile of clothes. There was the group of friends that said “work be damned” and lingered for an hour in the dining hall “marinating” post-meal. There was the universe-probing late-night conversation held over a double-decker or a courtyard-imbibed bottle...
What sort of response do you give when a student finishes his marketing degree in three and a half years, graduating summa on the strength...
After graduating summa cum laude, Greene won a Rhodes scholarship to Oxford, where he received his doctorate. Since then, he has taught at Cornell University, where he is currently a joint professor of physics and mathematics. Additionally, he bears the title of co-director of the Institute for Strings, Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics at Columbia University...