Word: undergrad
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...trimaran boat. Putting aside the watercolor I had been apathetically painting, I sat back and took in the omnipresent smell of sea salt and smoke and the shimmering silhouettes of overly-friendly jellyfish. Yet I could not escape the thought that my brother was no longer an undergrad like me. He was now a husband, honeymooning in Bora Bora with my new sister-in-law. The image was too heavy to bear. And so I contented myself by musing upon whether the couple would celebrate their first year anniversary with equal fanfare, and whether that meant we would all return...
...went to morning tea with some people in the lab. As we sat down with our drinks and snacks, the conversation drifted to comparisons between Harvard and Cambridge. A postdoc offhandedly commented that a friend of hers, a graduate student from America, knew less chemistry than the typical British undergrad because American students spend so much time taking classes unrelated to their major. That mild complaint sums up the American “liberal arts education” belief that a broad education is beneficial to the development of the student as a scholar and a citizen...
...That’s why I think people take the attitude, ‘no more undergrad housing,’” he adds...
...Still an undergrad, Nabokov thought through his options. “While the performer in me was sometimes tempted by a leading role in courtroom drama, the idealism I still harbored made me less and less sanguine about the profession’s prospects,” he writes...
...cautioned that locating undergrad Houses there—even as far north as the river—could impact the present-day community...