Word: comped
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...never leave their room—managed the bizarre alchemy of the Harvard application and transformed a plethora of extracurricular and curricular achievements and one or two “outstanding” essays into an acceptance letter.Yet once you get to Harvard, this sequence has another name: The Comp. Apparently, those who make it into Harvard find the process of writing extensive applications, undergoing interviews, and waiting for long periods of time so stimulating that they feel compelled to replicate it as often as possible in their daily lives. This is why most of the major extracurricular organizations...
...section, low, faux-granite counters display small appliances in a similar open style. With this design, Wal-Mart has adapted a strategy created by its highly successful Mexican operation, Wal-Mex (which Castro-Wright used to run), that groups domestic wares by room. Wal-Mart recently told analysts that "comp" sales in the newly designed section are doing 3.33 percentage points better than in the old-model sections...
...treat everyone at the same time,” Johnson added. Amid the inconvenience of waiting for washing cycles to finish and the hassle of shouldering laundry up and down the street, some Pennypacker residents found humor in the situation. “I just emailed the [WHRB] comp director telling him I might not be able to make it Sunday because I’m getting disinfected for scabies,” said Zhang. Pennypacker resident Idriss P. Fofana ’11 said he was not scared of people with the disease. “It?...
...light on how one of Harvard's oldest institutions takes form each year.INTO THE WOODS"We have some very crazy characters that are typically Hasty Pudding in nature," Chen says. "And of course, puns galore."Chen and Polk's script was selected for this year's show through a comp process which typically involves eight to 12 applicants. Prospective writers are given general guidelines, such as the number of characters and that there must be an equal number of male and female characters."It's very hard to write a Pudding show, so we give the writers broad guidelines...
...College Night is Outta Sight Boogie on down to the MFA for College Night where the pizza is cheap, the music is loud, and the art is priceless. Hit on artsy BU students and brush up on your Thurston Moore references before The Advocate comp. Thurs., Sept. 27 at 7 p.m. The Museum of Fine Arts, Avenue of the Arts, 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston. 2) Bless Your Bleedin’ Heart Harvard faces off against BC —pint to pint. Why should you give blood? Because you feel the need. The need to bleed. Besides the obvious altruistic...