Word: tutoring
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When Noah helps tutor his Albanian girlfriend for the SAT (yes, his girlfriend is conveniently studying for the SAT), he constantly reminds her that she is thinking too deeply about the test questions. And though Noah waxes philosophical about the implications of his teaching, he can barely pay his rent, health insurance, or loans...
...punishments, with luck as the determining factor. If you’re unfortunate enough to come across HUPD in the wake of some bad publicity, expect a lengthy court process before the case’s possible dismissal. But if you’re caught by a relaxed tutor, expect a reprimand from the Ad Board, some drug counseling, and a slap on the wrist...
...been granted every last one, in writing, and in a somewhat timely fashion. The key is to remember that those ogres only have as much power over you and your curriculum as you let them have. Get your concentration advisor on your side. Get the head tutor of your department on your side. Get your resident dean on your side. Deans and tutors and advisors have the kind of influence over curriculum that Core staffers can only dream of. Then, file all the Core’s inane forms in triplicate. And most importantly, be prepared...
...professors—“to be with their pupils almost every hour of the day, and sleep in the same chamber with some of them at night,” wrote Samuel Eliot Morison, Harvard’s pre-eminent historian. In many cases, student and tutor remained life-long friends...
...looks like a postcard.’” Sullivan’s anti-postcards have received a positive reaction in the gallery’s comment book, but this has not been the case for every exhibit at Three Columns. Musser, a resident tutor in Mather, remembers the controversy that surrounded a show organized by the previous curator. “He made Ken dolls, but he disfigured them as if they were returning veterans from the Iraq war,” she says. Musser says that “a lot of people were like...