Word: yearbooks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...good-looking guy with solid parents, that cute Jenny White for a girlfriend and a nonstop sense of humor, the kind that could always cheer you up. And Ethan Thrower, sweet kid, churchgoer, MVP on the track team, a member of the elite Royal Blues choir, honor roll, yearbook, the whole deal. They were the most popular kids at the biggest school in town, a public school but a prestigious one--it even has a lacrosse team--a place so idyllic that Hollywood came there to film Mr. Holland's Opus...
When executed skillfully, plan files present a snapshot of the author's values and intellectual preoccupations. Some people, however, seem to think that a plan file is the e-mail equivalent of a high school yearbook. They abuse our patience by writing 10-screen long plan files, filled with every obscure reference, movie line and aphorism they've collected over the past year. Such hodgepodge plan files are universally condemned by the critics. If you're about to put down 40 or so witty saying please keep the following maxim mind: Unless you're Voltaire, I really don't care...
...wrote in his high school yearbook that he would be a psychologist--and he became...
...candidates, who are roommates affiliated with Kirkland House, say they believe the variety in their experiences would make their leadership good for the council. Swasey, a social studies concentrator, is editor-in-chief of the Harvard Yearbook. White, who concentrates in literature, has been involved in theater groups on campus...
What does it take to make an excellent student? The student who not only sits at the head of the class (and the horn section, the swim team, the debate society and yearbook) but also enjoys the respect and friendship of teachers and peers? The encouragement of a parent or two certainly provides a foundation. But to find out more, TIME interviewed dozens of superb students from across the country, along with their parents, teachers, mentors and friends. What emerged is some clear patterns and some lessons well worth studying...