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sellout’s conundrum (from 2019) Rona Wang Oct 25, 2023 28 4 2 Share First published on MIT Admissions in 2019. It’s been four years, but perhaps it’ll still resonate with some of you. Sometimes I went to recruiting events just to remember why I avoided recruiting events. The latest one, held in early May of this year, was at Abide, a bubble tea shop on the outskirts of campus. The recruiters had tried, they really did—wheeled in old-school arcade games, paid for limitless boba, etched the space in muted gold light. A woman in a crisp suit handed me a stack of poker chips. “Use these to place b

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