Word: syllabi
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...It’s in the Bag: Memos, papers, agendas, files, handouts, schedules, syllabi...
...even now, as the spring semester begins, the question still lingers. As I flip through syllabi and browse reading lists, I question the professors of this fine school. What are my professors thinking when they assign such overwhelming amounts of reading? Do they honestly think it feasible to read, understand and appreciate 150 pages of dense reading each week? Are they not aware that Harvard students are enrolled in other courses, that students also have a life outside of academia? Since when did more become synonymous with better when it comes to education...
Grow older, grow wiser. Last Shopping Period I had everything down to a science. Master scanner of syllabi and shuffler of classes, I could tell within minutes whether a class was right for me. I'd absorbed enough departmental and extracurricular hearsay to pick classes practically before the lectures began...
...determined. I was prepared. As I sat down at my laptop surrounded by syllabi, I only thought about how I was going to spend the money I was bound to save...