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Ask HN: I'm an MIT senior and still unemployed – and so are most of my friends

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Re: Ask HN: I'm an MIT senior and still unemployed – and so are most of my friends

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Post by lee-rhapsody »

laidoffamazon wrote: post #171
fedsocpuppet wrote: post #168

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did they actually tell you that? I highly doubt it. You've created a preconception that I guarantee is not accurate at all. You have multiple people here saying it's bullshit, and we're not lying or trolling or anything like that. I replied somewhere else but I want to reiterate - why would you even want approval from people who dehumanize others on the basis of TC? It's like being upset Martin Shkreli doesn't want t…

It’s not just TC though. TC is an imperfect proxy for ability and class. If I’m just permanently in the underclass - unable to be compared to you people - it’s obvious that y’all wouldn’t even see me as human. I have no accomplishments, nothing to be proud of. Freshmen at MIT have more potential and prior accomplishments than I do.

>makes $220k+ a year

>"i have no accomplishments"

give me a break

Re: Ask HN: I'm an MIT senior and still unemployed – and so are most of my friends

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Post by xmgad »

Sucks how things are rough out there right now. You strike me as someone with a lot of heart, and I really hope something good comes your way soon. I’m working on a startup at UC Berkeley with my co-founder, we’re bootstrapping at the moment, but we’ve got a lot lined up.

Would love to connect if you’re open to chatting. No pressure at all — just figured I’d reach out. Feel free to shoot me an email (info’s in my bio).

Re: Ask HN: I'm an MIT senior and still unemployed – and so are most of my friends

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Post by mlhpdx »

laidoffamazon wrote: post #214
vonneumannstan wrote: post #212

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>Why would they work with people that they perceive to be beneath them and have worked far less hard than them? Because you aren't actually modeling their thinking correctly?

Perhaps I don't. I don't know why someone would expend 100x the effort and be labeled at minimum 10x the person by MIT admissions to end up at the same place that people with 1350 SATs from Auburn or 1450's from NC State or 1420 from Binghamton would go to after graduating MechE.

So I was accepted to MIT long, long ago and couldn’t afford to go and ended up at an (excellent) state school. If I’d gone to MIT I would be the same person right? Stereotypes don’t work, and never have — see people, not labels.

Re: Ask HN: I'm an MIT senior and still unemployed – and so are most of my friends

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Post by shtotidumaiesh »

Hey - I am an early employee at a well-funded (backed by top investors, Khosla, Lightspeed and others) Series A startup - we are hiring for engineers.

Pls get in touch with me asap if you are looking for a SWE position. Same for your MIT friends.

Send me an email, it's on my profile

Re: Ask HN: I'm an MIT senior and still unemployed – and so are most of my friends

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Post by laidoffamazon »

mlhpdx wrote: post #234
laidoffamazon wrote: post #214

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Perhaps I don't. I don't know why someone would expend 100x the effort and be labeled at minimum 10x the person by MIT admissions to end up at the same place that people with 1350 SATs from Auburn or 1450's from NC State or 1420 from Binghamton would go to after graduating MechE.

So I was accepted to MIT long, long ago and couldn’t afford to go and ended up at an (excellent) state school. If I’d gone to MIT I would be the same person right? Stereotypes don’t work, and never have — see people, not labels.

It's about being able to get in, not going. You're a superior human to people like me despite going to a state school.
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