The middle school students have a heavy course load each term .

中学生每个学期都有一大堆繁重的课程负担。

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Sure, it may seem like a good way to improve your transcript, but the lower grades you might get because your course load is too heavy is a sure way to bring your transcript down, not up.

当然，多选一些课看起来似乎是一个改善你成绩单的好法子，但是由于课业太繁重，你可能会取得更低的分数，那样会让你的成绩单变得更糟糕，而不是更好。

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I'm afraid your course load is a little too heavy.

恐怕你的课程负担太重了。

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Not bad for a 23-year-old with a heavy course load (Kyodai's law faculty is one of the most rigorous in Japan).

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And expectations differ across those scholastic landscapes: A professor at a teaching-heavy liberal arts university, for example, might have four or five times the teaching load, course planning, and grading of one at a large research-oriented institution but less in the way of sweating late nights, winter breaks, and most summers over hitting research grant deadlines.

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