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Academia, grades and Life.

kevinli9424 @kevinli9424 (85) 18 Jul 16

So from the very start of our live we are subjected to the educational system. We are told that good grades defines how successful we will be later in life. Also that grades determine how intellectual we are. However I believe...

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Do Libraries Still have a Reserves Section?

Kyla Matton Osborne @Ruby3881 (1963) • Canada 6 Apr 16

I was talking to my oldest about textbooks for college classes and I happened to mention that professors sometimes leave materials on reserve in the library, to supplement the textbook. Then I thought about it: the last time I...

college textbooks

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racism in academia?

skivveez @skivveez (38) • United States 8 Feb 07

Kind of a long story, but this is interesting. I'm a student at MIT, and right now there is a junior professor who is on a hunger strike, to protest what he sees as personal and institutional racism in the school. He has been...

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Do You Think Academia is Crap?

streak_tlu @streak_tlu (606) • United States 20 Dec 06

I am in my last semester of undergraduate work and I have a 3.94 and am in the process of finishing up grad school applications which are really a pain in the butt. All these statements of purpose, irrevelant stuff, writing...

graduate school

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