College Visits: MIT

14 Mar

Posted by Sam Jackson as College, Exeter, Visits

Today my friend Greta and I decided to venture out to M.I.T. for a visit. We’d intended to do such things this week, and couldn’t conceive of anything else for today, so it wasn’t a bad idea. Greta came over a bit before twelve and we pondered for 30 minutes what we might do while […]

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Yay College Board

09 Mar

Posted by Sam Jackson as College, College Board

College admissions officers in Massachusetts and elsewhere yesterday scrambled to deal with the applications of thousands of students whose SAT scores were too low because of a technical glitch, one of the biggest mistakes ever made on the high-stakes exam.

Ooops! Someone messed up. Ostensibly, a computer, but really there’s a human behind it in the […]

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