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This is regarding undergraduate experience on the Somerville/Medford campus.For me, attending Tufts University has been engaging, fun and enlightening. I've learned a lot, both in and out of the classroom, and made some amazing connections, both with peers and mentors.I think the greatest strength of the Tufts community is its diversity to size ratio. WIth 5,300 undergrads and over 70 official degree programs, there are a lot of interests represented in a small space. The university does a great job of integrating these programs. Students in the School of Arts and Sciences share a lot of facilities with the students in the Engineering School, and they all live, eat and socialize together. Whatever activity students engage in, there are a wide variety of viewpoints represented (and, as David Foster Wallace proclaimed in his 2005 Kenyon College commencement speech, perspective is the true value of liberal arts education). Additionally, undergrads have full access to graduate programs in their fields of study, and upperclassmen regularly share classes with masters students. It is a common joke that the typical Tufts student has two seemingly unrelated majors, such as music and economics, or engineering and philosophy.This diverse but engaged and intermixed balance is achieved by keeping the school relatively small, with a strong sense of community. Tufts is in an urban area (2 MBTA stops from Harvard and 6 from downtown Boston), but far enough out of town to have its own actual campus with quads, dormitories, brownstones, and other typical municipal facilities. Additionally, students are kept engaged by having the opportunity to explore cross-wise between programs, and vertically beyond the typical undergraduate classroom experience. Whether it is working in a lab with professors, researchers and grad students, or working in a startup in Kendall Square, or getting coaching on how to compete in an international sport, Tufts offers a range of opportunity. And, of course, if you want to party, there are regularly a variety of events on campus every Thursday, Friday and Saturday, and you can often find large groups of Tufts students at bars near campus on Tuesdays. Additionally, if you can't find what you need on campus, campus is near MIT, Harvard, BU, BC, Northeastern, massART, Wentworth, Babson, Olin and more schools. That is the beauty of education in this city. However, it is worth noting the cost of living in Somerville/Medford is lower than in Cambridge or Boston.There are certainly advantages to homogeny, and there is a time and place for specialization at Tufts, as is integral to any high-level academic institution. However, I believe the richness of experience at the school is derived from operationally integrated diversity of interest and perspective among students. It is amazing to sit down at a dining hall table with a biomedical engineer, political science major, soccer player, leader of the Entrepreneurs society, and prolific music student and socialize. This has been the norm of my experience, for that I am very grateful.It is worth mentioning, especially in the context of universities, experience is subjective. The communities you invest in, whether through academic path, sports teams, extracurricular choices, or off-campus opportunities, play a large role in determining the "college experience." One of the main value propositions of undergraduate education is that it offers an abundance of these communities to explore, and Tufts is no exception. Finally, as with most things in life, you get out what you put in.Some more selected personal examples, since those are the most salient to me, to highlight the phenomenon I am attempting to explain:In 7 semesters as a Cognitive and Brain Science major/Linguistics minor, I have taken courses in these departments: Biology, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Community Health, Comparative Religion, Computer Science, Engineering Psychology, English, Environmental Science, Experimental College, Industrial Engineering, International Letters and Visual Studies, Linguistics,Mathematics, Music Theory, Nutrition, Philosophy, Portuguese, Psychology, and Urban and Environmental Planning. To reiterate, those are all departments with their own offices/building/faculty, etc, and just a small sampling of what one student has done in short timeAs a senior, I currently live with an Economics major/Art history minor who is captain of the varsity sailing team and has already secured a job at a top international finance firm, a Computer Science major/Entrepreneurial leadership minor who is president of the Tufts Entrepreneurs Society and a member of the rugby team, and a mechanical engineering student who is an avid sailor, cyclist, and climber, among other things.Sophomore year, 2 of my roommates built and launched a campus-wide social networking platform (Home | Dabbut).During my junior year, I travelled to 6 states and 3 continents to engage in professional sailing events (Extreme Sailing Series, Melges 32 circuit) and was able to maintain a 4-credit course-load with the support of my teachers and coaches.As an avid lover of food who spent 2 years in the restaurant industry, I regularly eat well around campus on a small budget-- there's is great food in this area.Two of my professors this semester (Dennett and Omenetto) have given TED talks (not TEDx).In the last 12 days, on top of talks on campus, I have commuted to see lectures at Harvard's Science Center, the MIT Media Lab and Microsoft NERD.I am a member of a co-ed Greek organization that seceded from the national chapter in 1976 to maintain more open and diverse standards of membership. This organization engages in campus outreach, philanthropy, and throws 2-3 parties in their house each week.Edited to include clearer formatting and correct typo's.

My High School:Website: Westmount High SchoolFacebook: Westmount High SchoolA High School located in St. Catherine West, near Downtown Montreal, Quebec in Canada. We follow the Quebec Education High School system.Here are the best things about my High School (in my opinion):Famous poet, musician and singer of “Hallelujah,” Leonard Cohen went to my school. That is right, the Leonard Cohen. The legendary singer Leonard Cohen went to my high school. He went to my high school, where he studied music and poetry. Ohhhh. He was also Student Council President in 1951. I feel honoured for being Student Council President when I went to the same school as Leonard Cohen.Leonard Cohen’s Westmount High school Yearbook in the 1950s(Info: Leonard Cohen - Wikipedia )Other Westmount High School Alumni include Mila Mulroney (Wife of 18th Prime Minister Brian Mulroney), Jesse Camacho (Canadian Actor—I’ve met him once one year on Student Council, nice guy.), and Kamala Harris (American attorney and politician serving as the junior United States Senator from California since 2017.)Kamala Harris’s picture - WikipediaLocation: Just 10–15 minutes away from Metro Atwater by walk and 10 minutes away from Vendome Metro by a bus ride. It is also very convenient because it is near a huge shopping mall and a cinema with 10 minutes walking. It is also near the Downtown area in Montreal.AP Programs: It is very uncommon in Quebec to have many high schools with AP Programs. I know in the States it is very common; but here, in Montreal, we don’t have that many schools with AP Programs.(Library picture was taken by yours truly, School website, AP English)Our AP Programs consist of:Math- Calculus in ABScience- Environmental Science)Social Sciences- Comparative Government and Politics and PsychologyLanguages - French Language and Culture, English Literature and Composition)Pre-AP Art- Studio Art- Drawing or 2-D/3-D.Teachers: We all have those good and bad teachers at every high school. My High School? Well, there are a few favourite teachers that I adore who taught many students with passion. Many of our staff and teachers are very supportive of their students.Diversity. In our high school of nearly 1,000 students, we have many international students, from Korea, China, Spain, Germany, Italy, Mexico, and many more!Class Subject diversity: My school offers a variety of class subject programs for some or all levels.English Language Arts (Offered all levels)Ethics and Religious Culture (Offered only Grade 7, 8, 10,11)Drama (Offered all levels — We also have an advanced Drama class offer to Grade 11)Fine Arts:Visual Arts (Offered all levels)Media Arts (video) / Imagery Arts (Offered only Grade 10)Français:Français langue maternelle (Offered only Immersion)French Second Language (all levels on the English side)Integration Linguistique Scolaire Sociale (Immersion)Spanish (Offered only Grade 9–10)and others.We have activities for the entire school: For example, every year we have an activity held in October called Wacky Olympics, where students play activities in teams, competing for the first prize trophy. After that, they get to eat free food and free snacks and at the end of the day, they get a dance or watch a movie.Family Breakfast. Another school activity held in December. Everything run by Student Council, and servers are run by Leadership Gym with Mr.Kosow and Prefects; Family Breakfast is an event where students with their families, old alumni, teachers, staff, parents, community, come and feast to free breakfast from 7 am to 9 am. Our breakfast also has vegan and vegetarian options, we would like to serve food to everyone because we want everyone before the holidays to celebrate and feast together, like family.We support our community around. Can Drive, Food For Thought, Terry Fox Walk, Clothes for donation, Remembrance Day, etc… We support and donate back to our community. Our school likes to hold charity events and donate to Westmount families in need. Westmount High like to give back to the community!(Image: Westmount High School Facebook Page)Free Breakfast every day for our students. Breakfast Club, run by Student Council, they cook toast, pour milk and cereal, serve chocolate milk and juice, serve waffles or eggs—free of charge for students and staff at our school; every day except Wednesday at 7:30 am to 8:00 am. If ever you’re hungry and don’t have money to buy breakfast or you left the house without eating anything, just drop by and get your tummies fulfilled with delicious free breakfast!Numerous Clubs. Westmount High School offers many clubs. For example:D&D [Dungeons and Dragons] — I’ve once attended a D&D session.Student Council ClubPrefect ClubAnime ClubYearbook ClubArt ClubAnd much more.Numerous Sports clubs, most of which were won 1st or 2nd place of GMAA sports in Quebec. Ah WHS offers many sports clubs that compete against other Quebec High Schools in the province. For example, we have Soccer, Basketball, Football, Rugby, Badminton, Volleyball, Track and Field, etc.Trips all year round. My high school offers trips during the school year, from Europe Trip for a whole two weeks or so at 3 or 4 different European countries destinations, Quebec City trip, USA Trips (I know for you Americans it isn’t exciting but for us Montrealers, when we travel to the states, its quite exciting and fun.), Grade 7 Quebec Trip to Kingston Ontario trips and much more!We also welcome new Grade 7s, new international students and new students very friendly and open arms. Welcome! :)(Image: Westmount High School Facebook Page)Thanks for reading about my High School.You can out more pictures from my High school’s Instagram here.Thanks again.Sincerely,—Britney Vu, was once an awkward, shy and bubbly High Schooler.Edit: I removed my face, for personal reasons.Edit 2: Added Leonard Cohen info, and other alumni because it was true. (I forgot to add!!) You may find more Alumni here.Edit 3: Decided to eliminate a few things, and make this list shorter.

No. Statistically, there seems to be a slight advantage for the team that takes the first penalty in a shoot-out.Penalty kick shootouts and the importance of shooting firstPenalty kick shootouts and the importance of shooting firstCategories: Hybrid Competitions, Knockout Competitions, Paper DiscussionsJ. Apesteguia and I. Palacios-Huerta, "Psychological Pressure in Competitive Environments:Evidence from a Randomized Natural Experiment", American Economic Review 100 (December 2010): 2548-2564.This economics paper focuses on the psychological issues involved in high-stakes competitive environments, using the penalty kick shootout as an illustration. The major finding of the paper is that there is a structural advantage in the penalty kick shootout to the team that shoots first, which can be explained by psychological factors.———-This is the second of the two papers that I was going to review during the holiday period, and the one that has generated more attention from the broader sports media. The paper centers itself in the research area ofbehavioral economics, in which economic models are developed that account for psychological factors. In a way, it attempts to account for the irrational within the rational and determine how applicable insights obtained in lab might be to real world conditions. (Some primers of the topic can be found here and here, and even more can be found via your preferred Internet search engine.)It is the question of applicability that is the most difficult for behavioral economists to answer, and therefore that which has generated the greatest interest in the field. There exist very few real-world examples that closely mimic a laboratory problem, and vice-versa. José Apesteguia, an economics professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, and Ignacio Palacios-Huerta, an economics professor at the London School of Economics, have identified one example of equal interest to economists and soccer fans: the penalty-kick shootout.Palacios-Huerta should be familiar to those who read Soccernomics, as he was the professor who had researchedgame theory and penalty kicks in graduate school and later sent a letter to Chelsea manager Avram Grant about the penalty-kick practices of the Manchester United kickers and goalkeeper Edwin Van der Sar. It appears that the scouting report was used during the 2008 Champions League final, as Szymanski and Kuper recount in that chapter on the final.The penalty kick shootout is described as an example of a randomized natural experiment, an observational study in which the treatment and control groups are determined through random means. In this particular study, the subjects are professionals carrying out one — and exactly one — task. All of the relevant variables are observable, and the outcome of the task is known immediately and definitively. Moreover, all subjects are highly motivated to complete the task well.Data were collected from 129 shootouts, which resulted in a total of over 1,300 kicks. The data included not just the actions of the shooter and goalkeeper, but also the particulars of the match and the teams. Data were presented with respect to the team which shot first in the penalty kick shootout, and in some cases the outcome of the coin toss was collected. This was most relevant after 2003, when changes to the FIFA Laws of the Game presented team captains with the option instead of the obligation to kick first upon winning the pre-shootout coin toss.One might expect that both sides would have an equal chance to win the penalty shootout. However, the data indicate that the team that shoots first has a 60% chance of winning the penalty shootout, which in this study is significant at less than a 2% level. Even more interesting is the finding that the team shooting second has a consistently lower shooting percentage and consistently longer odds of leading the shootout after each round.So there exists a significant and persistent advantage to the team the shoots first in a penalty kick shootout. But are the players and managers aware of that? The authors sent questionnaires to players and managers of professional and amateur soccer clubs in Spain, from the Primera Liga to the regional amateur leagues. The result was that across managers and players at all levels of the game, over 90% of those polled preferred to shoot first. When given the opportunity to state the reason for shooting first, almost all of the respondents said that they wanted to place pressure on the kickers of the opposing team. It appears that the players and managers are definitely aware of the psychological factors surrounding the penalty kick shootout. Now Apesteguia and Palacios-Huerta seek to quantify them.There were two types of regression tests made in this study. The first one utilized a probit/logit model and determined the influence of certain regressors (team rankings, league positions, home team, shootout experience, team shooting first) on the win probability. The only regressor with a significant regression coefficient (at a 1% level) was the one associated with the team shooting first. This result tends to indicate that the penalty kick shootout really is a crapshoot in that all of the factors that would give an advantage to one side no longer apply.The second type of test involved a panel data model, which was used to determine the mechanism of the scoring rates during the penalty shootout. Panel data analysis appears to be an econometrics tool that is used by economists and social scientists to study the characteristics of groups (panels) over time. For the penalty kick analysis it would be useful in understanding how scoring rates change as a function of the interim score in the competition. What Apesteguia and Palacios-Huerta found was not very surprising: as a team lags in the interim score, their penalty kick performance degrades, and as it leads in the interim score, their performance improves especially in the later rounds. Because in the current shootout format the team that loses the toss always shoots second, that team will almost always have a level of psychological pressure that the team shooting first does not have. (Upon understanding that finding, Gianluigi Buffon's decision after winning the coin toss to have Spain kick first in the Euro 2008 quarterfinal was one of the biggest unforced errors in international football.)Finally, the authors analyzed data in which they had information on the shot outcome — was it missed by the kicker, or saved by the goalkeeper? — and found that the save rate was approximately the same between the two teams in the shootout. The difference in scoring rates in the shootout is correlated very strongly with the miss rate of the kicker. Therefore the burden of success in the shootout rests not with the goalkeeper but with the kickers selected.So in conclusion, the penalty kick shootout as it currently exists is biased toward the team that wins the toss, only becomes unbiased if the shootout reaches sudden-death (more than five rounds), and is less a battle between goalkeeper and striker and more one between the striker and the mass between the striker's ears. So how do these results explain Germany's near perfect record in penalty shootouts, or England's abysmal record in shootouts? There are some goalkeepers who were exceptionally good in penalty kick shootouts; what about them? What the authors are saying is that in the mean, the penalty kick shootout really depends on one event, which makes the aforementioned events so exceptional. There are some policy implications for competitive environments where the interim result is known to all parties, but specific to football FIFA will be asked how they can make the shootout fairer to both teams. I am intrigued by the use of a tennis tiebreaker system (ABBAABB…), but I would like to know if there is an advantage to the player who serves first in the tiebreaker (I've seen a couple of papers related to the topic, but they were what I was looking for specifically). This paper will provoke a lot of debate about the use of penalty kicks to break ties, with which very few people seem fully satisfied until they seriously consider the alternatives.