Tag: academics

“The emotional miseducation of boys”

I’ve again started reading Kindlon & Thompson’s Raising Cain, and just within the first few pages have gotten more out of it than any previous read-through. One of the truly wonderful things about this particular book is just that; one gains new insight and recognises new things each time one reads it. Woven through its …

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Homework and the like

Today I had the incredibly far-fetched goal of completing all the assignments that I have due within the next three weeks. This was an outlandish aspiration considering it is nearing the end of the term, and I, consequently, have a vast amount of large projects to finish (or start, depending on the class). While I’ve …

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The start of another week…

Well this is the start of another grueling week at school. I’m still exhausted from last week and don’t really have the energy to start another. This week is exceptionally busy because I have extra things to do, aside from my usual amount of homework: Tutoring a guy for the big ol’ standardised Uni admissions …

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