Ernestine Fu may be the first Stanford sophomore to work as a venture capitalist while carrying a full course load.

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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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Also highlight how you successfully managed a heavier course load, which shows how you will be able to handle various tasks at work.

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If a college professes to foist on its professors a three or even a four course teaching load, a closer examination will show far less because of reductions given for almost any reason.

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Fu juggles the intense responsibility of working at a VC firm with a more than full course load in the civil and environmental engineering department.

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As to the general school system, Tamir is advancing a plan to cut the course load by 30% over the next five years.

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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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She told The Andrew Marr Show that one of the emails she had received said "the nursing profession is no longer the caring profession" while another said "since they made nursing a degree course the wrong kind of people are entering the profession... we do not need a load of snooty-nosed pen pushers".

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Of course, a smartphone is useless as a travel tool unless you load it up with apps.

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