Word: proofreaders
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...grand as these reforms might be, they resonate on a much smaller scale with the individual students who anxiously pore over and proofread their college applications during the fall rush. Harvard institutes its changes on behalf of these nameless faces, with the aim of equalizing and enriching their experience. But while the admissions office can aim for equality on its end of a highly controlled process, it is impossible to hope for equity of experience in the pre-college lives of actual students...
...let’s add it all up. Campus newspapers like the DN are staffed by time- and sleep-deprived rotating volunteer students who are charged with producing around ten thousand words of accurate, proofread stories and controversial editorials every day. At four in the morning, when the presses start up, the instant historical registers for campuses across America are frozen in time, errors...
...then I went back and read them again…and they just made me hate myself.” We sat in front of my computer, gazing at my sister’s common-app essay. She had sent it to me for a final proofread, and I had fetched my blockmate from next door to get a second opinion. At the moment, however, both of us were far more absorbed in mentally scrolling through our own compositions, now relics of high school memory...
...Keep the Buddhist monks and disabled Cambodians who recently completed our digital archiving project on The Crimson’s payroll. Bring them to Cambridge to proofread Gossip Guy for class year and middle initial accuracy and to ensure that periods are only followed by a single space throughout the magazine...
...magazine--as in a sheaf of stapled-together pages covered in ink and distributed by snail mail. How ironic. How 20th century. Here she was, a brash entrepreneur in the brave new world of Web-based publishing, stuck with the old-fashioned job of selling ad space and shipping proofread pages to the printer...