Dear High Schoolers, Time Is Precious • Hacker News Board

Re: Dear High Schoolers, Time Is Precious

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Post by sokoloff » Sat, Jun 07, 2025, 3:44 PM UTC

rahimnathwani wrote: post #16

sokoloff wrote: post #8

I generally agree that SATs and APs lose meaning once the college enrollment is behind you, though I was asked for my SAT scores by my third employer (D. E. Shaw & Co.). I had to check twice with the recruiter to be sure I’d heard her correctly that she wanted my SAT score from a decade ago. (She did.) Probably not unrelated: DESCO was also the single highest density of talent that I’ve ever experienced post-graduati…

DESCO = D. E. Shaw ?

Yes, included in the first parenthetical, though I suppose it wasn't made perfectly explicit.

Re: Dear High Schoolers, Time Is Precious

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Jun 07, 2025, 3:51 PM UTC

sokoloff wrote: post #21

rahimnathwani wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

DESCO = D. E. Shaw ?

Yes, included in the first parenthetical, though I suppose it wasn't made perfectly explicit.

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Re: Dear High Schoolers, Time Is Precious

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Post by rahimnathwani » Sat, Jun 07, 2025, 3:52 PM UTC

sokoloff wrote: post #21

rahimnathwani wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

DESCO = D. E. Shaw ?

Yes, included in the first parenthetical, though I suppose it wasn't made perfectly explicit.

Sorry, I must have mentally skipped past the part in parentheses when I read the comment the first time.

Re: Dear High Schoolers, Time Is Precious

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Post by johnea » Sat, Jun 07, 2025, 8:50 PM UTC

How cute! A university sophomore getting his first taste of feeling "grown-up".

Obviously, this is just a very first hint, because being "grown-up" is not something that ever actually happens.

But it is cute, and sentimental, to read a young person's first impression of this experience.

Get used to it, you'll keep having ever advancing feelings like this for the rest of your life. At least, if you are the type that chooses to keep growing.

It'll take a few more years before another new stage, where you realize, those high school students aren't listening to you 8-)

After all, did you listen when you were in high school? No...

Just get used to it now, because you'll spend the rest of your life trying to backport the lessons you've learned through hard experience, back to those younger than you. Until you realize, they aren't listening 8-)

Then you'll have a choice, shut up and ignore them, or keep trying to get them to listen.

That's all ahead, but of course, you're not listening...