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Right, the key difference is that children are below the age of consent. I was just comparing how both were given unfair negative stereotypes for having an orientation different fr…

Interesting perspective. I've always thought of pedophilia as being just another orientation, not necessarily tied to sexual abuse. That'd be like assuming a straight male has perv…

How much is your rent? I know you don't want to accept money, but I may be able to send a donation.

I recommend the book "Worthless: The Young Person's Indispensable Guide to Choosing the Right Major" by Aaron Clarey for a brutally honest, if exaggerated, take on higher education…

I'm from a Chinese family. Many of my friends and I were raised with this mindset. They went off to attend elite colleges, but I couldn't stomach the endless hoop jumping and toxic…

Good to hear that engineering is less dependent on institutional prestige. As someone who doesn't attend a name-brand university, I hope to be evaluated more for my skills than for…

Sure, I'll share. After my rejections, I kind of fell apart during senior year of high school. I was extremely depressed and ended up almost failing all of my classes. In the end, …

Growing up, it felt like I was raised with the sole purpose of attending an elite college. I took AP classes, did SAT prep, and signed up for all the right extracurriculars, but my…

Wonderful message. I agree 100% with Pichai's stance on diversity.

It's like a newspaper for techies. The community is also polite and intellectual, and I feel more comfortable here than on other sites.

It just seems like trouble. I like to keep a low profile and minimize the drama in my life.

I translated a piano score from Haydn using Alda a while back: https://github.com/mwhuang2/Haydn Nice to see new features being added. I might do some more pieces in the future.

Brian Chesky (Airbnb) attended Rhode Island School of Design.

Both my parents were programmers. It was useful because they could help each other with learning and career advancement. Personally, I'd prefer a non-programmer girlfriend. I like …

I always have this problem of feeling inadequate. I'm a junior CS student at a decent but not great school. Some of my friends go to Stanford or UT Austin and have already interned…

I was a student at an SAT prep center during high school and worked there for a year during college. The strategy we recommended for essays was to build a chart with one book, one …

I feel it's too idealistic to think that every passion can be profitable. College students can't all major in Netflix and video games. I've had a number of skilled hobbies over the…

Is it really that bad? Social media is just noise to me. Checking online may seem tempting, but almost nothing I see adds any real value to my life.

They sell a culture/lifestyle rather than just a product.

Extra schooling only delays reality and leads to more debt. What really matters is simple supply and demand - whether people have the skills that others are willing to pay for.

I developed a fixed mindset from a young age because I was constantly told that I was smart, which caused me to expect school to always be easy. When I got to college-level work, I…

I always disliked those comments. That's just cowardice.

I assumed people would infer my gender from the wording of my post.

I'm a hardcore fan of My Little Pony. Gender stereotypes mean nothing to me.

I applied mostly to Ivies and similarly competitive colleges. They get plenty of applicants with near-perfect test scores and GPAs, so my poor grades made me a subpar candidate.