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...progress and prosperity at war's end. On Feb. 14, 1946, scientists at the University of Pennsylvania unveiled the first electronic, digital computer. A year later, on Oct. 14, 1947, Air Force pilot Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier. There were cultural and social developments too. An exhibit of Jackson Pollock's first drip paintings opened on Jan. 5, 1948. Early signs of a civil rights awakening came as Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color barrier on April...
...neither plans to get rich off their work. Jackson said her motivation was just to “get published.” Zaroulis simply wanted something to do during her year off between high school and college...
...whole lot of work to get your name out there,” Jackson says...
Jackson’s premise did receive criticism from a few college deans and other administrators she contacted for the guide. Jackson tells stories of administrators who said that average public school students “are at no disadvantage” when competing with privately schooled students at the university level...
According to Jackson, the best piece of advice in her book is a quotation from another student telling readers to be conscious of their family and social backgrounds. “The resources and motivations you bring from your family and personal background are always relevant—they’ll always be with you,” the student wrote...