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I did OK in the pre-req pharmacology subject but will have to pull out my notes and try to remember the workings of various seratonin reuptake inhibitors or whatever.
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We welcome buying bottles, but it's not a pre-req to get in.
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Apprehended children, on the other hand, provide TV audiences with a real-time whodunit, augmented by breathless reports from "field" correspondents (whose wardrobe pre-req. of button-pocketed khaki shirt assures viewers of the situation's gravity and degree of possible peril) and up-to-the-minute gossip crawls - once upon a time reserved exclusively for stodgy stock price updates - screaming across the bottom of the TV screen:
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The class was a critical pre-req for my application to graduate school.
I am a terrible, angry professor who has no human feelings. Angry Professor 2009
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If Stu Dent's experience from HS is that ze only needs to "take" classes because you retain nothing whether you pass it or not, it is no surprise that Stu thinks a pre-req is just a formality.
Angry Professor gets some voice mail. Angry Professor 2009
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I'm just glad that they didn't have a math pre-req for it otherwise I probably wouldn't have been selected.
Read It! j-ku 2007
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It's not a pre-req- in fact, we were told all the reading would be in English.
Ah, hell. 2007
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Obviously some training would be a pre-req so perhaps one year after training.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Why Mandatory “National Service” Proposals Target the Young: 2007
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But the algebra test assumes that you are starting with a student who knows the pre-reqs–after all, he passed the pre-req test.
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Spring of my freshman year, I took the Econ pre-req class microecon.
No wannoo. Angry Professor 2005
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