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CLASS OF 2000
Keeping Tabs on the Last Class of the Millennium

By Marisa Cigarroa

oday is going to be hectic,” says David Lee, as he makes his daily trek to the Physics Tank, where he will spend the next two hours of the morning in classes.

In addition to his regular Monday schedule of physics at 10 a.m., followed by calculus at 11 a.m. and Cultures, Ideas and Values (CIV) at 1:15 p.m., Lee will have lunch with his academic advisers at noon, attend an optional piano class at 12:30 p.m., practice with the Stanford crew team in Redwood City from 3 to 5:30 p.m., grab a quick bite to eat back at the dorm, talk with a reporter from 6 to 7:30 p.m., work at the engineering library from 8 to 10 p.m., then start writing a six-page paper for CIV, due on Wednesday.

“I wanted to begin working on the essay last night, but people in the hallway were getting loud so I decided to go to sleep and save my energy to work on it today,” says Lee, who hopes to finish the paper by Tuesday afternoon, before another round of partying in the dorm begins to celebrate the beginning of Thanksgiving break.

Welcome to freshman year. Learning to balance academics with extracurricular activities and socializing is one of the biggest challenges that all

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