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...with the Other” or “East and West” or stuff like that to suck. Further pearls of wisdom: many Expos sections include peer review sessions in which those who may not write as well as you will critique your writing. Peer review is tedious and forces you to read crappy student essays. In all honesty, it doesn’t really matter which class you take. Expos is an unpleasant, occasionally educational experience. Your tutorial is probably going to be a more helpful, discipline-specific guide to college writing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Expository Writing | 9/14/2006 | See Source »

...only will you be able to kick it with your lab partner while you two calculate relativistic momentum, spend long enough in the Hist A core and you may find yourself feigning the role of a humanities buff without realizing it. It helps to think of the tedious reading as a slightly more intellectual Harry Potter book you read as background so that you won’t be awkwardly left out of conversations on whether or not Professor Snipe is really on Harry Potter’s side. Clearly, this demonstrates the unsurpassed level of diligence, integrity, and work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Historical Studies A | 9/14/2006 | See Source »

...beauties! Crikey! With those barbs a stingray can kill a horse!'" Greer bravely sets her imaginary Irwin straight: "Yes Steve, but a stingray doesn't want to kill a horse. It eats crustaceans, for God's sake." I had previously assumed British editors consult Greer because they mistake her tedious prejudices for some special insight into Australia, including, it now appears, its marine life. As they say in academic circles, you couldn't make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Defense of the Crocodile Hunter | 9/7/2006 | See Source »

...beauties! Crikey! With those barbs a stingray can kill a horse!'" Greer bravely sets her imaginary Irwin straight: "Yes Steve, but a stingray doesn't want to kill a horse. It eats crustaceans, for God's sake." I had previously assumed British editors consult Greer because they mistake her tedious prejudices for some special insight into Australia, including, it now appears, its marine life; but second sight is better than insight. As they say in academic circles, you couldn't make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Defense of the Crocodile Hunter | 9/7/2006 | See Source »

...years after 9/11 to speak of "Islamo-fascism." In reality, the enemy was more like communism in its heyday: international in its scope, revolutionary in its ambitions and adept at recruiting covert operatives in the West. The right tactic to defeat it was not conventional warfare but tedious intelligence work--monitoring telephone calls, tracking financial transactions, shadowing suspects, infiltrating cells...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation That Fell To Earth | 9/3/2006 | See Source »

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