“with a singlemindedness common only to former Soviet interior-ministry troops and first-year law students”
“I am a law student in my first year at the law, and there are many moments when I am simply a mess.”
“States and Provinces and curricula around the world track students by age. This practice is so common that we do not think of it as tracking. With few exceptions, a six year old must go into first grade even if that six year old is not ready or was ready for the grade one year earlier.”
“No one expected a first year engineering student to build the perfect bridge.”
“Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses.”
“Singlemindedness is all-powerful.”