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The Things We Do for Soup (opens the original)
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This vignette by Kel, a current student in my online section of Comp I, is a surprisingly humorous look at how a quest for soup and a hit-and-run somehow added up to an “ah-ha” moment.<img alt="The corn chowder soup from Wawa
Why Michigan's New Grading Policy Is a (Very Small) Step in the Right Direction (opens the original)
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Unless the fomenting backlash provokes administrators to reconsider, the University of Michigan will not be giving official grades to first-semester students enrolled in its College of Literature, Science, and Arts starting next fall. Professors will still be giving students feedback and unofficial grades, but transcripts will only designate whether a student passed or failed their first-semester classes.Although this strikes me as a very modest step in the right direction, critics such as UPENN
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