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Nick Charchut was an outstanding student at Santa Monica High School, a description to which his co-valedictorian honor attests. But it’s not a status he’s necessarily expecting to keep. The recent graduate will soon be heading to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he knows he’ll be surrounded by some of the country’s brightest students. […]
