on "selling out" - by Rona Wang - return on net assets

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& life after my book deal

this is what I look like About a year ago, I wrote a post on the MIT Admissions blog titled “sellout’s conundrum.” I was a rising junior, and I found myself disillusioned with the many, many opportunities MIT had thrown at me: recruiting events with pretty-colored drinks and smiley Actual Adults, travel fellowships for far-flung countries and cultural exchange (whatever that meant), pre-professional clubs that boasted competitive application processes and even more occasions for schmoozing. Rereading that post now, I’m embarrassed by some of the flowery language, the overwrought…

on "selling out" - by Rona Wang - return on net assets

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