Word: tediousness
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...Second week in March: The "Lottery Application Packet" is distributed to all first-years. Students begin the tedious and often tense process of formalizing their "blocking groups." The College guarantees that all the students in a blocking group will be assigned to the same House...
...encounter; and as they pile up we decide C- (Harvard being Harvard, we do not give D's. Consider C- a failure). Why? Not because they are a sign the student does not know the material, or hasn't thought creatively, or any of that folly. They simply make tedious reading. "Locke is a transitional figure." "The whole thing boils down to human rights." Now I ask you, I have 92 bluebooks to read this week, and all I ask, really, is that you keep me awake. Is that so much...
...music. Springfest gives students a break from the tedious train of Yo-Yo Ma's, Boston Philharmonics and Mendelssohn String Quartets who regularly file through Harvard's hallowed music halls playing works from centuries past. The council imports a more timely, more popular act so that (at least for one weekend) the most studious students on earth can get down to fanfares intended for common...
Kolakowski's work, most of which involves crimes against children, can be tedious: he and two fellow deputies, also Gen Xers adept at navigating the Internet, often spend months probing chat rooms and websites. And even after the deputies pull off a successful sting and arrest, antiquated state laws can make it difficult to win a conviction. The situation frustrates Wayne County Sheriff Robert Ficano. "It's like being on the side of the freeway where everybody's speeding," he says. "You get some, but so many just blow right...
...though I may be in no position to pass judgement, I look to at least offer some explanations for the phenomenon. The application-mongers of the world would proffer that there are numerous (questionable) benefits to a lengthy, tedious and stressful selection processes--it winnows out people who are not really interested, ensures dedication and identifies the strongest, most qualified candidates...