Careful with that Koolaid
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Careful with that Koolaid
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#3It also might have a huge point where just because you thought you were in MIT that you weren't there by luck and was smart enough.
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#4Meta to the article itself but this SumoMe stuff is incredibly annoying. It breaks the flow of reading. There are highlights on here which end in the middle of a word [http://i.imgur.com/6zQjwvW.png]. And now I just had an email-newsletter popup occur halfway through reading the article.
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#5It also might have a huge point where just because you thought you were in MIT that you weren't there by luck and was smart enough.
Luck only gets you into MIT after you pass the cut of it deciding you can do the work, most especially a term of the calculus past the AP BC sequence, and calculus based mechanics and E&M. When I last had figures (since then I gather applications have increased), about 13,000 applied, and about 3,000 were judged to be able to do the work, from which MIT had to extend enough offers to get a class of ~1100.
MIT does a good job of this, as a rule students who choose an appropriate major make As and Bs, unless they're having personal problems.
However these sorts of smarts have no bearing on the failures experienced by this guy; heck, he would have been better off staying longer and rubbing shoulders with people who've had success in business. There's plenty of opportunity for that, from the professors who are given one day a week for their own business pursuits to all sorts of formal entrepreneurial stuff.
But it's not something MIT cares about in admissions, besides looking for evidence you can do projects, which has no bearing on projects producing stuff people will buy; note this guy did not fail from an inability to make something work per se.
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#6Meta to the article itself but this SumoMe stuff is incredibly annoying. It breaks the flow of reading. There are highlights on here which end in the middle of a word [ http://i.imgur.com/6zQjwvW.png ]. And now I just had an email-newsletter popup occur halfway through reading the article.
I'm one of those guys who randomly clicks or highlights text while reading, and it's dead annoying if doing clicks on a text with the normal text mouse cursor causes an action!
Please, website owners: provide visual cues if the behavior of your website differs from normal websites.
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#7Meta to the article itself but this SumoMe stuff is incredibly annoying. It breaks the flow of reading. There are highlights on here which end in the middle of a word [ http://i.imgur.com/6zQjwvW.png ]. And now I just had an email-newsletter popup occur halfway through reading the article.
I'm one of those guys who randomly clicks or highlights text while reading, and it's dead annoying if doing clicks on a text with the normal text mouse cursor causes an action! Please, website owners: provide visual cues if the behavior of your website differs from normal websites.
Must maintain maximum APM while reading articles
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm one of those guys who randomly clicks or highlights text while reading, and it's dead annoying if doing clicks on a text with the normal text mouse cursor causes an action! Please, website owners: provide visual cues if the behavior of your website differs from normal websites.
Must maintain maximum APM while reading articles
Look, if I'm going to get out of Diamond in Starcraft 2...
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#9Meta to the article itself but this SumoMe stuff is incredibly annoying. It breaks the flow of reading. There are highlights on here which end in the middle of a word [ http://i.imgur.com/6zQjwvW.png ]. And now I just had an email-newsletter popup occur halfway through reading the article.
As soon as a popup like that happens, I just close the tab.
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#10It also might have a huge point where just because you thought you were in MIT that you weren't there by luck and was smart enough.
Luck only gets you into MIT after you pass the cut of it deciding you can do the work, most especially a term of the calculus past the AP BC sequence, and calculus based mechanics and E&M. When I last had figures (since then I gather applications have increased), about 13,000 applied, and about 3,000 were judged to be able to do the work, from which MIT had to extend enough offers to get a class of ~1100. MIT does a…
> as a rule students who choose an appropriate major make As and Bs, unless they're having personal problems.
This is grade inflation, not a badge of pride to MIT.