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Sadhana Lolla named 2024 Gates Cambridge Scholar

CAPD

In her free time, she enjoys singing, solving crossword puzzles, and baking. Lolla was also the director for xFair, MIT’s largest student-run career fair, and is an executive board member for Next Sing, where she works to make a cappella more accessible for students across musical backgrounds.

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Supplemental Essays Are Important!

Great College Advice

If you’re asked to write about an activity you enjoy, use the supplemental essay to highlight your interest in building model airplanes or archery or crossword puzzles. For example, if you are the captain and quarterback of your school football team, don’t write a supplemental essay that talks all about football.

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Interdisciplinary Gamified Teaching of Critical Metals

The Scholarly Teacher

2021), card games (Kavak, 2012), crossword puzzles (Cady, 2012), and sport-related games (Lee et al., Elements are everywhere: A crossword puzzle. Gamification is a technique that morphs learning and enjoyment with games and/or hands-on activities (Bayir et al., REFERENCES: Bayir, E., & & Deniz, C. reflections about it.

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Amid backlash, Stanford removes "harmful language" list

Confessions of a Community College Dean

” Yuter, reflecting on Stanford’s public relations debacle, likened it to a recent controversy over a New York Times crossword puzzle that resembled a swastika. “The design is common in crosswords and unnoticeable to many unless someone points it out,” Yuter said.

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SRHE News at 50: Looking back…

SRHE

And then came Covid lockdowns, bringing even more work for some, while others had too much time on our hands, so SRHE News offered a new kind of diversion – an SRHE-themed cryptic crossword. Its conspicuous lack of success did not deter a second attempt before we admitted defeat.