His student acquaintances included Pol Pot, later to become head of the Khmer Rouge.
He was not well known, having transferred here only a few months ago from Tennessee, according to student acquaintances.
It can be hard to keep track of everything that's going on at a campus, whether that's messaging between new student acquaintances that might have each others phone numbers or paying for school resources.
Previous research has suggested a link between immigrant status and lower opportunity to learn the core curriculum (Wang and Goldschmidt 1999), and between socio-economic status, student-level acquaintance with content topics, and mathematics achievement in PISA (Schmidt et al. 2015).
This past year I read the novels, stories, and memoirs of friends, colleagues, students, and acquaintances with much admiration.
Students and acquaintances paint a portrait of an awkward man who seldom chatted but was eager to fit in.
While students make acquaintances based on their interests, he says, campus life ultimately divides itself along linguistic lines, and friendships across those lines are rare.
Author's Query For a biography of the American painter Thomas Eakins (1844-1916), I would appreciate hearing from anyone possessing letters or reminiscences of students or acquaintances.
By Lorrie Moore December 12, 2011 This past year I read the novels, stories, and memoirs of friends, colleagues, students, and acquaintances with much admiration.
Seated around him in the Tisch building at 721 Broadway were his nine enrolled graduate students, several acquaintances and, for exactly 15 minutes last Saturday, a reporter and a photographer.
