"It's an academic full ride," my AVID teacher finally said.
K.U.'s offer of an academic full ride forced me to reconsider what I really mean when I say I want a "new environment".
For the last few generations, hard-core jazz audiences have spent a lot of time worrying that the academic might be riding up on the intuitive, and that the sense of heroism might be slipping away.
It afforded him a roomy one-bedroom apartment in Westwood, of all places, on the edge of Beverly Hills, and on top of paying way through his final year at the University of Southern California, it repaid - despite a full-ride academic scholarship - the loans he took out in his first three.
Gordon, 61, a compact man with sharp features, black half-rim glasses and a gray beard that gave him a distinctly academic look, conceived his ride as a scholarly exercise that would generate academic papers about perceptions of the health law while fulfilling his 40-year dream of biking across the country.
For one thing, a whole academic and therapeutic structure rides on the old model of sexual abuse; her findings had the potential to undermine a host of expensive treatment and prevention projects.
Their technique and academic seat, a formal riding position or style in which the rider sits erectly, deep in the middle of the saddle, exerted considerable influence in Europe and America during the 18th and 19th centuries and are still used in modern dressage.
Like the father who was a playboy in his youth and now has daughters, Strickland can appreciate the richness of his being an assistant in charge of riding herd on academic performance and making sure players toe the line.
His dream of riding boxcars to a glorious academic career quickly vanishes.
