I'm not an academically bright person.
Judge Wedoff "is an exceptionally talented and intelligent judge who is not only very smart academically but very, very practical," said Mark A. McDermott, a bankruptcy senior associate at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom in Chicago.
"We were smart kids academically" — her sisters Deloris and Diane made the Rhode Island National Honor Society — "but we'd go to school smelling.
One reason: the country's long history of valuing education, so women who achieve academically are seen as smart and savvy.
This is due to the fact that the recruiting mechanism of SMART specifically targets academically prepared students, and no general data relating secondary academic performance with post-secondary STEM attendance is available for Maine schools.
She's the only black actor with a major part in the film, and that role — the member of the quartet who's not academically trained but, rather, street smart — is a stereotype that ought to have been put to rest long ago.
"But also be a smart kid and be academically successful".
That, too, has been a good decision because it's my belief that if you have good common sense you'll be smart enough to succeed academically on some level.
