While in high school, I was elected as president of my senior class, an honor that was to require me to spend a great deal of time in activities that had relatively little to do with my academic work. School "politics" of this type can be, as noted by Hurwitz (22), both challenging and frustrating. While it is thrilling to be selected by one's peers as a leader, with lead
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