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Seize the Day!

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It’s Friday night in July, and I’m jamming with my fall course preps.

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Mom’s Fears About Daughter Leaving For College Channeled Into Fight About Storage Bins

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The Feynman Technique

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Student Journalists Are Our Future—We Should Start Treating Them Like It

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The girl was cast as Luciana (the younger sister) in The Comedy of Errors in the PPT’s summer Shakespeare camp.

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Real or Fake? (News Game)

Real or fake? At a time when the reading public daily grapples with the question of fake news, the American University Game Lab/JOLT has created an accessible, easy-to-play game that helps you sort fake news from real. The brainchild of former AU JOLT Fellow Maggie Farley and designed by AU game professor Bob Hone, Factitious is a quick game that can…