We had extraordinary students, some still in high school, who expressed that technology was not something to fear, but to embrace.

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"Whilst the circumstances surrounding the events in Austria are still not clear, we can confirm that no students were present at the incident and that they were under the supervision of teachers at the hotel at the time, " Mr Cuomo said.

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Students at very selective colleges are still super-motivated their motivation is one of the reasons they are selected and most professors, since we are the sort of people who want a little gold star for everything we do, still want to make a difference to their students.

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We even had the exact same loan amount (back when students still had to take out loans at Princeton as part of financial aide, before the endowment got so big that Princeton just foots the bill), which we discovered when we graduated and moved in together and had the exact same loan payments.

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Still, we're all for getting technology into the hands of students, and you can learn a bit more about what those very students can expect from VentureBeat's hands-on just below.

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Still, we need to tap into the spirit of this tradition if we are to help students adapt to the future.

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