For These Students, Learning Is a Laughing Matter

It’s a comedy night at Johns Hopkins University. Members of the university’s Stand-up Comedy Club are performing dialogues, cracking jokes, doing funny moves and face gestures.  They might be a little bit nervous at the beginning, but the experience is invigorating. Their jokes bring lots of laughter to normally busy, often stressed-out, students.    But comedy, as club member Ariella Shua says, is serious work. In their weekly meetings, students try out and rehearse the...

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