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  • Why MIT Is Reinstating Its SAT/ACT Requirement

    Why MIT Is Reinstating Its SAT/ACT Requirement0

    In case you missed it, on Monday MIT announced that they would be reinstating their SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions cycles. Like many universities, MIT had ditched the tests during the pandemic. Even prior to the pandemic, however, there had been a widespread push to abandon these tests to enhance diversity. “Data shows tests like

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  • Why Minimal Sleep is Not a Badge of Honor

    Why Minimal Sleep is Not a Badge of Honor0

    “I need you to make sure that I don’t walk into any walls or trip on the stairs,” one of my friends recently informed me. Her reason? She was running on about three and a half hours of sleep and was struggling with the simple task of walking. I hadn’t gotten much more sleep than

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  • Why Millions of Millennials Are Living in ‘Bad Faith’

    Why Millions of Millennials Are Living in ‘Bad Faith’0

    Safe Spaces, trigger warnings, parental coverage of health insurance until age 26 and living at home into one’s thirties…why are we treating young adults like they are infants, folks?  Without adversity, Millennials fail to develop perseverance and grit. Will they ever grow up? The French playwright and existential philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) had an expression

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  • Why Millennials Should Stop Romanticizing Socialism

    Why Millennials Should Stop Romanticizing Socialism0

    This month’s 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution is an appropriate occasion to remind us of the human atrocities committed by communist regimes. But we also should take time to reflect on the progress that has occurred since the fall of the Soviet Union and its socialist economic system in 1991. A recent poll of millennials found

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  • Why Millennials Should Learn to Cook

    Why Millennials Should Learn to Cook0

    Why do so few Millennials know how to cook? I think we are seeing basic cooking skills—knowledge that used to be passed in the kitchen from parent to child—combust before our eyes. It’s been going on for a while and is part of a larger trend toward relying on processed foods that began in the

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  • Why Millennials Are Having So Much Trouble ‘Adulting’

    Why Millennials Are Having So Much Trouble ‘Adulting’0

    Not long ago it was announced that “The Adulting School” was open for business. Its mission was to teach young millennials to do the basic tasks of life, such as cooking and time management, which they had somehow failed to acquire in their childhood years. But while the “The Adulting School” received a great deal

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