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With three more weeks of holiday vacation, Lisa and I’ve started studying 5 hours a day. You can read a novel for atmosphere but you have to puzzle over and wring-out academic books - with their essays and worksheets after every chapter. I feel a simultaneous focus and boredom - but the pull of school is staggering - like resisting it could break me apart. you can’t wait - all around the country, thousands of Yalies are already back hard at it

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Date: 1/7/2022 10:29:00 AM
Textbooks are filled with errors, so I hope you find them before others do! Aloha!
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Date: 1/7/2022 10:28:00 AM
Corona, Omicron, what else will come to devastate us! "but the pull of school is staggering - like resisting it could break me apart." beautiful expression and expressing your love for school, i think. Such pressure! wishing you good luck. Thanks - Marshall.
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Date: 1/7/2022 11:46:00 AM
Thank you Marshall. The start of classes have been delayed and then they'll be virtual for a while - but I'm excited to get back!
Date: 1/7/2022 7:27:00 AM
Anais, A good use of your hours; knowledge gained. Though you likely won't ever use more than 20% of it. Always a student of life be, but live, and do it now. ~~ "Every action has its pleasures and its price." -Socrates
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Date: 1/7/2022 9:44:00 AM
We'd still be studying but there are a BILLION other things we'd be doing without omicron. You comment is more poetic than my piece!

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