After assessing the conditions, he called an audible and recommended that his teammates replace on-course work with mental imagery.
Thousands face the prospect of spending a summer catching up on course work.
Now is the time to focus on course work, redouble efforts and do your absolute best in your classes.
The severance included extended tuition, and Mr. Stokes, piling on course work, hopes to earn his degree by early summer.
Unlike A-levels, which are largely assessed by exams, the BTec qualification depends entirely on course work.
Business majors spend less time on course work than other college students, but they devote more hours to nonschool duties, like earning money and caring for family members.
While other students around Manhattanville may have viewed the holiday weekend as an opportunity to socialize, get started on course work or simply relax, nearly 50 students took part in the college's first "Labor of Love" event.
The change, due to take effect in 2017, would do away with the current system, which encompasses a wide range of subjects, and in which students' grades are based partly on course work completed at home and on modules completed over the course of the school year.
Some degrees focus primarily on course work; the more traditional Master's includes research and a thesis; and the newer approach mentioned by Ortega the professional Master's degree aims at preparing students for more specific careers, such as bioinformatics, biotechnology, environmental geoscience, forensic chemistry, industrial mathematics, and many other options.
Many participants had expected a highly structured academic programme with a strong emphasis on course work as well as research (more akin to the professional doctorate).
