Word: thereof
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...thing that students in all four school agree on is the problems with the advising system--or lack thereof. Although all students get an adviser in their school and then one in their major, many students feel that advisers exist largely to sign innumerable forms and to give unsolicited advice based on precisely no prior knowledge of one's skills or goals...
...actors, unfortunately, don't do much better. Paul Dobie, as the incestuous Uncle Ernie, displays genuine vocal talent, but the new staging--or lack thereof--of "Fiddle About," in which he molests Tommy, features none of the tasteful (yes, you read that right) shock value that the original production bears and instead leaves the audience squirming uncomfortably in their seats. Virginia Woodruff (the Gypsy Queen) shows strong potential, but poor blocking and choreography prevent her from shining the way her solo "Acid Queen" could. Christopher Monteleone (Captain Walker) displays little-to-no chemistry with his shrill melodramatic wife (played...
High school: I take the SATs and the APs and similar standardized tests for people with short names. They turn me into "Ganeshananth, Vasug" or variations thereof. Rumor has it that each test-taker gets 200 points for writing his name. Someone asks if I get extra. When I am a sophomore, one of my friends is the editor of the school paper. When stories are a few lines short, she gets her reporters to call me for a quote so they can use my name to take up space. Before graduation, I have to spend extra time with...
...formal proof. The book begins straightforwardly enough: "1. The world is everything that is the case." (In German, it makes a memorable rhyming couplet: Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist.) And it ends with an ending to end all endings: "7. Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent...
...reasons having to do with general sociology as well as the sociology of learning, the book has come to supplant the journal article as the unit of publication," he says. "This makes for lots and lots of books, many of them really only glorified journal articles or collections thereof...