My Education Experience

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Monday, July 28, 2025

Roberta

Summer 2002. Roberta and I did not hit it off. A retired high school math teacher in her sixties, she was my first-ever tutor at the Huntington Learning Center—and our session together made me dread coming back the following week even more. The root of our mismatch was geometry. As I mentioned... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, July 24, 2025

I Never Got in Trouble for This

I never had a cellphone go off on me in school. As a high schooler—and well into college—I was staunchly anti-cellphone. Even though my parents insisted I carry one, that didn’t mean I actually brought it with me. If my phone was in the car, it stayed in the car. Recommended Reading The Detention... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, July 21, 2025

An Early Out

Summer 2002 I had an early out opportunity at the Huntington Learning Center—the sample SAT test. Huntington gave its SAT prep students a diagnostic test to see where they stood. A perfect score was 1600. I figured I’d score somewhere between 1200 and 1300—a respectable range, and more than enough... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, July 17, 2025

Nicholas III

The nickname of Loyola University Maryland is the Greyhounds. When I was a student there, we had an actual Greyhound living on campus—Nicholas III. He was aptly named, as he succeeded two previous official Greyhounds. Nicholas lived with a Jesuit, and students could even book time to take him for... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, July 14, 2025

Going into Huntington

Best friend Fred could either be thanked or blamed for my parents enrolling me at the Huntington Learning Center. My parents thanked him; I blamed him. (Note the humor.) One of Huntington’s specialties was SAT prep. Fred, who was a year ahead of me in school, constantly talked up his time there—how... Sign in to see full entry.

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