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324-word version: Bowdoin & Lehigh In 1865, a German scientist discovered the Mobius strip. The Mobius strip shows interesting relationships between the inner and outer sides of the strip... 318-word version: U of Virginia In 1865, a German scientist discovered the Mobius strip. The Mobiu..

238-word version: Business Administration – All Schools I made a deal with my teacher. If I were to get a perfect score on my pop quiz, he would treat me to a snack... 278-word version: Business Administration – Carnegie Mellon I made a deal with my teacher. If I were to get a perf..

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Tufts: "Education does not accomplish anything if it does not stretch your mind, if it does not force you to think about things in new ways, if it does not challenge you to examine some of your assumptions," writes Provost Jamshed Bharucha in the Tufts viewbook. Which aspects of Tufts` c..

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