Category Archives: College Study Tips

I’ve had it.  While I tend to remind myself that I am fatal to most grandparents, this semester the students aren’t even trying to come up with cleaver excuses for missed work.  This time most of the requests are written poorly and/or come up with the lamest excuses that I’ve ever seen.  So from this point on, I’m just saying “no” to everything. Clueless Clara: Can I make up the test.  I wasn’t ready for it but now I am. CO: Well I’m not ready to give you a makeup so no ADD Anthony: Can I make up the writing assignment.  I have severe add and wasn’t taking my meds.  I now know that was very harmful to my education.CO: Well duh.  And no. Mathematically-Challenged Martin: I got a 92/200 on the exam.  Is that an A?  If Read more

Chestertown, MD — The Washington College Department of Art and Art History and Kohl Gallery present the Janson-La Palme Annual Distinguished Lecture in European Art History, “The National Gallery in the New Century,” a talk by Earl A. Powell III, Director of the National Gallery of Art, to be held Monday, April 5, 5:30 p.m., in the Hotchkiss Recital Hall, Daniel Z. Gibson Center for the Arts.  The event is free, and the public is invited to attend. In 1992, Earl A. Powell III, known as “Rusty,” became only the fourth director of the National Gallery of Art, which opened to the public in 1941. This world-renowned collection has more than 107,000 European and American paintings, sculptures, drawings, photographs, books, and decorative arts dating from the 13th Read more