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  • He demonstrated the exercises of the great acting teacher Stanislavsky, he imitated Charlie Chaplin's funny walk, and when he was reading about calculus, he explained Zeno's paradox and the infinite series.†   (source)
  • She propped herself up on one elbow on her bed and stared at her brand-new, just-covered-with-a-brown-bag calculus book.†   (source)
  • I mean, I had been tired since waking, but combining fatigue with calculus seemed unfair.†   (source)
  • "They required that everyone take introductory calculus," Langan said of his brief stay at Montana State.†   (source)
  • Calculus is an extension of this misery.†   (source)
  • While he labored over what seemed endless amounts of schoolwork (Chem and Calculus, American History, English, Astronomy, Japanese) I sat on the floor with my back against the side of his dresser, counting silently to myself: this time only three days ago she was alive, this time four days, a week.†   (source)
  • I wish I could rewind back to the very beginning of the summer, when everything was so clear and simple and easy; or rewind even further, to the late fall, when Hana and I did our loops around the Governor and studied for calculus exams on the floor of her room and the days clicked forward toward my procedure like dominoes falling in a line.†   (source)
  • SCHIZOPHRENIC POLICIES In the end, any calculus of the benefits and burdens of immigration depends on who you are.†   (source)
  • I mostly did calculus homework.†   (source)
  • Calculus.†   (source)
  • He could remember the toughest calculus formulas and had nearly perfect pitch as a musician, but he literally could not remember to put his pants on.†   (source)
  • "Do you know what calculus is, young lady?" he asked, in the manner of a person who is hiding something frightening in one of his hands.†   (source)
  • He's taking freshman calculus up there and he's such a pain.†   (source)
  • "It's hard to bond over calculus," said Dr. Pat Williams, a teacher who had been at Briarcrest since its founding.†   (source)
  • Because of this and other distractions, added to the fact that he never seemed to mention school, I was surprised at the pool house one day, when he was on the phone, to find poking out of his backpack not only a calculus midterm (on which he scored a 98) but an English paper entitled "Storms and Sacrifice: Weather and Emotion in King Lear" for which he'd gotten an A-.†   (source)
  • Or possibly …. well, let's just say that the plot calculus is tricky and that much depends on the perspective of the reader.†   (source)
  • The means for this were arranged, perhaps, through the village liberation cadres, and in 1964 the young man began attending classes at the university in Saigon, where he avoided politics and paid attention to the problems of calculus.†   (source)
  • In Calculus III, he was an F student.†   (source)
  • Edward finished in minutes; I slogged laboriously through my calculus until I decided it was time to fix Charlie's dinner.†   (source)
  • The result of this presumption is the branch of mathematics known as the calculus, which every engineer uses today.†   (source)
  • On my side I had Tyson, Corey Bailer the computer geek, Raj Mandali the calculus whiz, and a half dozen other kids who always got harassed by Sloan and his gang.†   (source)
  • Jordan eventually found them, and his list of classes proved similarly alienating—Multivariable Calculus, Real and Complex Analysis….†   (source)
  • I'm sitting in calculus when the security guard knocks on the door and tells the teacher I need to be escorted out of class.†   (source)
  • At the library studying or in so-and-so's room getting tutored on her calculus.†   (source)
  • You have to take calculus and go to football games and go to prom and apply to colleges and you absolutely cannot die.†   (source)
  • This is an intriguing statistic: the same people who routinely steal more than 10 percent of his bagels almost never stoop to stealing his money box—a tribute to the nuanced social calculus of theft.†   (source)
  • I ran along the drainage canal with Sufi voices tracking through my head and sometimes I saw a plane taking off, all light and climb and calculus, and I thought of my son Jeffrey when he was younger—the gift he thought he possessed to take an aircraft out of the sky, the mastery of space and matter, a power and control that rose damnably from the curse of unbelonging.†   (source)
  • He puts his calculus book on his lap, making like he's reading it so he doesn't have to look at the other kids as they pass on the graffiti-filled stairwell.†   (source)
  • In the calculus of feelings, you never really know how one person's absence will affect you more than another's.†   (source)
  • I closed my eyes and went over the propositional calculus, trying to visualize the truth . tables for conjunction, disjunction, equivalence, and material implication.†   (source)
  • We did the battlefield calculus and we trusted our skills.†   (source)
  • He finished the calculus test with time to spare.†   (source)
  • Particularly in calculus.†   (source)
  • I am the equal of the world not because of the car I drive, the size of the TV I own, the weight I can bench-press, or the calculus equations I can solve.†   (source)
  • Max embarked immediately upon the grim calculus that had become second nature: His spear offered more range; Myrmidon had better armor, but the gladiator's right side was vulnerable to a counterattack; his foe tended to rock forward, indicating an aggressive nature….†   (source)
  • The urgency of that need, like much of everything else, was determined by some calculus of power and money.†   (source)
  • In such instances, madmen or drug fiends are better able to fight than ordinary soldiers, for they do not understand the calculus of defeat, and they fight on, sometimes turning the great weight of batde.†   (source)
  • In third period, I hook my bag over my chair and take out my calculus book.†   (source)
  • He studied algebra, trigonometry, and calculus.†   (source)
  • …unfurrowed, she slipped sidewise, screeching back across grooves of years, to hear again the earnest, high voice of her second or third collegiate love Ray Glozing bitching among "uhs" and the syncopated tonguing of a cavity, about his freshman calculus; "dt," God help this old tattooed man, meant also a time differential, a vanishingly small instant in which change had to be confronted at last for what it was, where it could no longer disguise itself as something innocuous like an…†   (source)
  • I need you like a biliary calculus.†   (source)
  • There was very little science, but by graduation you were expected to have mastered mathematics through elementary calculus.†   (source)
  • At last Star said, "My Hero, how long did it take you to learn calculus?"†   (source)
  • "I'm very good at calculus," he explained, pushing up his glasses.   (source)
    calculus = the branch of mathematics that is concerned with continuously changing values
  • Calculus was excruciatingly long and boring, and English was nerve-racking.   (source)
    calculus = mathematics class that is concerned with continuously changing values
  • I waited in the cafeteria, staring at the psychedelic blue-and-orange walls (the guy who picked our school colors must have been on some serious drugs), attempting to finish my calculus homework.   (source)
  • History was easy, but I don't know about the Calculus.†   (source)
  • I had to use algebra, though, not calculus.†   (source)
  • Its index included several chapters on differential equations and calculus.†   (source)
  • He never turned in his calculus book, knowing I'd need all the help I could get."†   (source)
  • Yet you want to find thirty million people who understand calculus?†   (source)
  • "Yeah, I need to borrow your calculus notes," Mer says.†   (source)
  • I spend most of Saturday suffering through calculus.†   (source)
  • The professor never realizes that Chris Langan is good at calculus.†   (source)
  • Last week, he'd taken thirty seconds before calculus to download his latest plan of attack.†   (source)
  • He couldn't even talk to his calculus teacher, for goodness' sake.†   (source)
  • Olly: ahh, calculus. the mathematics of change Madeline: Wow.†   (source)
  • It was later, in Calculus — my one class without Edward — that I heard the gossip.†   (source)
  • Pointing in the direction of the escapee, he said, "He dared to claim that he invented calculus!"†   (source)
  • Class ends, and I stumble in a fog toward calculus.†   (source)
  • "I'd like to learn calculus too," she said.†   (source)
  • I picked up my calculus book and showed her the cover.†   (source)
  • Calculus, the one exception, was behind me, pass or fail.†   (source)
  • Why do you consider this practice to be relevant to calculus?†   (source)
  • "My grades weren't good enough to get into calculus class.†   (source)
  • We have calculus and physics together, so we could start there.†   (source)
  • "You told me Mr. Turner wasn't going to let you take calculus," he said in an accusing voice.†   (source)
  • " "I want to learn calculus," Sherman said simply, and then O'Dell and Billy said they did too.†   (source)
  • "You know, you may have never noticed, but we have calculus together," he said.†   (source)
  • " "There's calculus in there and differential equations," Miss Riley said.†   (source)
  • I clutched the spiral metal binding of my calculus notebook until it stabbed the palm of my hand.†   (source)
  • But it's unlikely we could teach ourselves calculus.†   (source)
  • But Echo had looked exhausted today and I thought she may have fallen asleep during calculus.†   (source)
  • "I'll teach you calculus," Quentin said.†   (source)
  • Big Creek will offer a class in calculus.†   (source)
  • How can you expect to learn calculus when you didn't understand algebra?"†   (source)
  • "If you're not getting your class, why are you learning calculus on your own?"†   (source)
  • Quickly, before I could start thinking about Charlie's accusations, I pulled out my Calculus book.†   (source)
  • Nobody else could make calculus even remotely interesting, I'm sure of it.†   (source)
  • That fall, he was in Calculus I with Colin, who was a ninth-grader.†   (source)
  • "I'm flirting with you, Miss Blue, flirting in the perfect language of calculus.†   (source)
  • It may not be calculus-his love-but he really knows this book.†   (source)
  • I trudged off to Calculus with a grim expression.†   (source)
  • If you know calculus, you definitely can be a machine operator or programmer.†   (source)
  • And that's coming from an overweight Star Trek fan who scored a 5 on the AP Calculus test.†   (source)
  • She wasn't back yet from her Saturday night calculus tutorial.†   (source)
  • Working for Harriet, working on my applications, working on calculus.†   (source)
  • Then I have to rush home and finish my calculus homework.†   (source)
  • She would've had better luck explaining calculus to me.†   (source)
  • In the afternoon, the calculus midterm comes back: 68 out of 104 possible points.†   (source)
  • Jessica didn't look up when I sat down next to her in Calculus.†   (source)
  • But I did tell him he could help me with my calculus at lunch.†   (source)
  • Calculus was a walk in the park, and his only other midterm test was in Spanish.†   (source)
  • That weekend, there was only one thing I should have been thinking about: calculus.†   (source)
  • A few days later, I found Jessica waiting for me outside my third-block calculus class.†   (source)
  • I could hear people buzzing about it in the hallway when I left calculus.†   (source)
  • Only in calculus is he following the line of the lecture, and just barely.†   (source)
  • 'I've got a calculus test that I have to pass.†   (source)
  • Cedric just looked down at his opened calculus book, not blinking.†   (source)
  • I was pretty much a zombie all day, but during the middle of calculus, something finally woke me up.†   (source)
  • The scribbles are the start of a calculus proof.†   (source)
  • Only in calculus, his forte, has he managed to stay afloat through relentless effort.†   (source)
  • Listen to you, 'I did so bad but I still got an A.' No, actually, I got a B in calculus.†   (source)
  • He's getting some answers right in chemistry, and almost all of them right in calculus.†   (source)
  • This calculus section must be a little ahead of his.†   (source)
  • Yesterday Cedric found out that the only advanced group he's in is calculus.†   (source)
  • In the last two weeks; he has risen to the solid middle of the advanced calculus class.†   (source)
  • Oh, and lots of luck on your calculus final.†   (source)
  • He'd prefer a test, he told Berman, to a long, labor-intensive calculus project.†   (source)
  • "I got to study for calculus," Cedric says, holding the bag of CDs.†   (source)
  • Star, that's quantum mechanics, not calculus.†   (source)
  • I took physics and calculus, thinking they would improve my chances of getting into flight training.†   (source)
  • And when he went out, I tagged along with him to galleries, estate sales, showrooms, auctions where I stood with him in the very back ("no, no," he said, when I pointed out the empty chairs in front, "we want to be where we can see the paddles") — exciting at first, just like the movies, though after a couple of hours as tedious as anything in Calculus: Concepts and Connections.†   (source)
  • "It beats calculus," I answered.†   (source)
  • He wanted to learn calculus next but couldn't afford another book, so he went to the school and asked the math teacher for one.†   (source)
  • He passed Calculus III, did us all proud, and after graduating, went on to become an award-winning star in computer science.†   (source)
  • But this drive was different and better because it occurred during calculus, because it occurred with Ben and Radar, because it occurred on our way to where I believed I would find her.†   (source)
  • He was just so focused on his computer courses, being a teaching assistant, and a research assistant in my lab that he simply stopped going to calculus class.†   (source)
  • There was a sting in this arithmetic: in knowing that in the divine calculus of heaven, one man could balance the equation for countless women.†   (source)
  • Senior English, calculus, beginning French, physics, European history, and something dubiously called "La Vie."†   (source)
  • All along, I kept thinking, I will never do this again, I will never be here again, this will never be my locker again, Radar and I will never write notes in calculus again, I will never see Margo across the hall again.†   (source)
  • As long as we can use the three laws of motion and calculus to accurately forecast the movements of the suns, we do not care who conquers the world.†   (source)
  • I had Calculus and History — the only two challenges in my line-up — so I'd have almost the whole day without him, and nothing to do but worry.†   (source)
  • We assume that being good at things like calculus and algebra is a simple function of how smart someone is.†   (source)
  • After class, Meredith and Rashmi and I walk silently with St. Clair to calculus and exchange worried glances when he's not looking.†   (source)
  • Now, with the powerful mathematical tool that is calculus, it will only be a matter of time before we master the pattern of the motion of the three suns.†   (source)
  • One of the questions asked of test takers on a recent math test given to students around the world was how many of the algebra, calculus, and geometry questions covered subject matter that they had previously learned in class.†   (source)
  • At the same time, due to the invention of calculus, and the Von Neumann architecture computer, the foundation was set for the quantitative mathematical analysis of the motion of three bodies.†   (source)
  • After exploring for a while, St. Clair relaxes again, and we talk about little things, like the test last week in calculus and the peculiar leather jacket Steve Carver has been wearing lately.†   (source)
  • In fact, and this is the most heartbreaking part of all, he manages to have an entire conversation with his calculus professor without ever communicating the one fact most likely to appeal to a calculus professor.†   (source)
  • She'd refused to make eye contact with me during calculus and fled the room the minute the bell rang.†   (source)
  • We entered calculus and I swear, every person in the room froze and watched as Noah paused by my desk.†   (source)
  • I was missing first period calculus, my father was missing some very important meeting, and my stepmother from Oz?†   (source)
  • I settled in my seat and spent the entire hour trying to keep my mind focused on calculus and not on kissing Noah Hutchins.†   (source)
  • You had the calculus class, Quentin.†   (source)
  • I wanted to talk to him on Monday when he, Beth and Isaiah came over for the next tutoring/car repair session, but he kept our conversation exclusively on calculus.†   (source)
  • Calculus.†   (source)
  • I remembered when I had shown her my rocket book and she had said how much she, too, wanted to learn calculus.†   (source)
  • "Studying calculus," I replied.†   (source)
  • Finally, he said, "There's a lot of theory in here that presumes the reader already knows subjects we haven't had, chief among them, I suspect, thermodynamics and calculus.†   (source)
  • You know calculus as well as I do.†   (source)
  • "Sir, you are asking questions that are more in the nature of analytical geometry and calculus," he said, mining away from the blackboard to eye me over his half-glasses.†   (source)
  • On the night before I was to leave for Indianapolis, Quentin spent the night at my house, not letting me sleep, drilling me incessantly on the details of the trigonometry, calculus, physics, chemistry, and differential equations we used for our rocket designs.†   (source)
  • Auk XXIII was going to be the first rocket to be based on the sum total of Miss Riley's book, the calculus that Quentin had learned in Mr. Hartsfield's class and that I had learned on my own, coupled with the practical knowledge we had gained through two years of failure and success.†   (source)
  • Everything that had happened--our rockets, Mr. Bykovski, Cape Coalwood, calculus, even poor Daisy Mae--had all been leading up to this judgment, and now, even though I already knew I wasn't going to win, I had this terrible sense of a chain of inevitable events leading toward some conclusion being broken.†   (source)
  • I never joke about calculus homework.†   (source)
  • Sam was an expert at trigonometry, calculus, and aviation, so you'd think she could figure out how to use a camera.†   (source)
  • I could tell right away something was wrong with mine; I was signed up for Pre-calculus (when I hadn't even taken Algebra Two), French Three (when I took Spanish), and, worst of all, Band.†   (source)
  • And at Perkins Day, I'd awkwardly flirted with Nate Cross, who sat next to me in calculus, but everyone was in love with Nate, so that hardly made me special.†   (source)
  • Oh, and this big one's yours," she said, sliding a large manila envelope out from under the calculus textbook she was carrying.†   (source)
  • I can't work the trusty calculus.†   (source)
  • No calculus today?†   (source)
  • Pre-calculus.†   (source)
  • If life on death row is safer than life on the streets, it's hard to believe that the fear of execution is a driving force in a criminal's calculus.†   (source)
  • " If black kids who study calculus and ballet are thought to be —acting white," Fryer says, then mothers who call their babies Shanice are simply "acting black."†   (source)
  • She doesn't know trigonometry or calculus, and she's never studied the properties of cutting tools or metals.†   (source)
  • Thanks to the Calculus test I'd missed while abroad, Alice and Edward were in better to shape to graduate than I was at the moment.†   (source)
  • The Continual Offshoring Calculus I came to think of Standard Motor Products as an enormous machine that regularly scans every tiny part of every engine in every car on the streets of the United States to answer two closely related questions: What makes sense to manufacture here in the U.S., and what should be made in a low-wage country, like Mexico or China?†   (source)
  • We have a Calculus test to study for.†   (source)
  • In the last several months, I'd spent ten times the amount of time on Calculus than I'd ever spent on math before.†   (source)
  • In the end, I'd dug out my old bus schedules, set my alarm, and decided to take advantage of the fact that my calculus teacher, Ms.†   (source)
  • I did some studying for another Calculus test that was coming up next week, but I could only look at math for so long.†   (source)
  • Now, though, calculus was the last thing on my mind, even as I approached my classroom and found him waiting outside the door for me.†   (source)
  • I didn't feel like Calculus today.†   (source)
  • Olivia was apparently a whiz at calculus, something she had neglected to mention the entire time we'd been sharing our lunch hour.†   (source)
  • Do you need help with Calculus?†   (source)
  • Even with all my studying and preparation, calculus was still the one thing that could take me from zero to panicked in less than thirty seconds.†   (source)
  • Well,' I said, 'we're still kind of doing things, so" 'Do you think you'll be prepared for your next big calculus exam?†   (source)
  • But if I was, you know, helping you with your calculus at lunch or something, then I could just hang out with you guys.†   (source)
  • I said, 'Am I going to pass calculus?†   (source)
  • More and more, though, I found myself distracted, thinking about Nate, as I had been pretty much nonstop'occasional calculus obsessions aside'since I'd seen him swimming a couple of nights earlier.†   (source)
  • Calculus aside, I had surprised myself by not only keeping up my end of the deal I'd made with Jamie but actually feeling slightly confident as I sent off my applications back at the end of January.†   (source)
  • 'Only if I fail calculus,' I said.†   (source)
  • Mine was even worse: calculus.†   (source)
  • Back home, I sat down with my calculus notes, determined to study, but within moments my mind wandered past the numbers and figures and across the room to the picture of Jamie's family, still up on the wall over my desk.†   (source)
  • He leaps out of bed and over to the desk, hunched forward in his pajamas, diving into calculus as never before.†   (source)
  • On Friday morning, he buys an Amtrak ticket for that night's sleeper to Washington and trundles off to Calculus.†   (source)
  • Once I sat down, I read over my list of classes, separated into neat blocks'Intro to Calculus, Global Cultures and Practices, Drawing: Life and Form'twice, figuring that would give people adequate time to stare at me before moving on to something else.†   (source)
  • He knew that his dad would pull up any minute and Cedric would soon be leaving for his calculus final.†   (source)
  • Intro to Calculus?†   (source)
  • An A in Calculus, B in Fieldwork and Seminar in High School Education, which means he must have gotten an A on the final paper.†   (source)
  • In the Calculus 10 class, he scans the syllabus and sees some material he covered at MTT and plenty that he didn't.†   (source)
  • With his option of dropping one class now exercised, everything that remains must work out, starting with his forte, calculus, his big midterm test.†   (source)
  • After two days ofjunk food and little sleep, Cedric wanders into his regular Wednesday morning calculus session.†   (source)
  • Why is he so good at calculus?†   (source)
  • All right … forget the hat, but I'm keeping the jacket on," Cedric says with a self-deprecating chuckle before sliding around to help James with calculus.†   (source)
  • Cedric Jennings stares at his midterm paper in Calculus and finishes off a third box of Golden Grahams for lunch at Vernon Wooley Dining Hall, called the VeeDub.†   (source)
  • Five minutes later, he gets Pelcovits's signature, approving his enrollment for Math 9, a second-semester calculus class a notch lower than the one he just attended.†   (source)
  • Across from him at the narrow table, James Davis lifts his nose from calculus homework to watch, visibly bemused, the spectacle of Cedric trying to look "baaaad."†   (source)
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