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...grant and suggested he apply to be a resident tutor. He did. But for three years, he received rejection after rejection. Once, he was offered a non-resident tutorship—which came with a small number of meals but no housing. The job didn’t seem worth it, so he turned it down. It was a decision he’d later regret. Houses often pick resident tutors from the non-resident pool because the masters and House staff are already familiar with them, but Sebastián says nobody told him that at first. Having...
...picked his daughter up and moved her to the common room couch, where he normally sleeps. There he waited, lights off, listening for the amorous racket to die down. It’s nights like these when he wondered (and still wonders) whether the Ph.D. is really worth it. Whether it’s selfish of him to put her through this. Whether he should just e-mail the House, his lab, everyone to say that he’s had it. She’ll never be six again...
Scrabble players around the world had to double-check their calendars this week after Mattel announced that it was releasing a new version of the game called Scrabble Trickster, which allows players to use proper nouns such as Quzhou (a city in southern China, worth 27 points) and Zuma (the surname of South Africa's President, worth 15 points). "I was sure it was an April Fools' joke," says John Chew, co-president of the North American Scrabble Players Association. "I thought someone was a few days late reading the press release and the joke was on them...
...mail. "It's another part of the process of expanding the brand - it's an evolution." In other words, you might be feeling pretty smug about laying down "Jay-Z" (23 points), but if your opponent responds by playing his wife Beyoncé, that would be worth a mighty 64 points, as he'd benefit from the 50-point bonus (commonly known as a Bingo) that's awarded for using all seven letters. (See pictures of video gamers...
...waste walking to and from the store, it would take you at least five minutes to get back into work mode, and you’d even have to root through your bag to find your ID to swipe back into Lamont. Such massive amounts of disruption are hardly worth...