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I agree. And certainly don't think MIT, nor Harvard, are shit. You get what you put in. Mostly, I was educated in the Québec system, and had no idea before I w
by leblancfg 11y ago
I agree. And certainly don't think MIT, nor Harvard, are shit. You get what you put in.
Mostly, I was educated in the Québec system, and had no idea before I was 16 that if I got good grades I could get into interesting universities -- even the American ones. Reading up voraciously on Richard Feynman, only to discover that if things had been different, I, too, could have gone to that school. By that time, it was too late, I simply didn't have the grades. My parents' perception that it would cost a fortune certainly didn't help.
Not that I'm complaining, I can't change the past. But the idea of never attending MIT is one of those very few, recurring what-ifs? that will sometime keep me up at night, half a lifetime after.
- azinman2 11y agoThere's always grad school. I didn't get in undergrad, and I probably wouldn't have been ready had I.
- tjalex 11y agoYou're not missing out, don't sweat it :-) I went to a similar university, and one of the best things about working in tech is that the culture is so similar to that environment.
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- ridgeguy 11y agoReferring to another current HN post, if Hugh Everett was right, at least one of you did attend MIT.
- MichaelGG 11y agoIf Everett is right then doesn't that mean that one of him also, say, choked to death on his acceptance letter? I like the idea of immortality (no matter what happens, I'll always wake up OK in some branch, and that is me), but I'm not sure it actually helps otherwise, day-to-day. In fact, I'd guess there's more potentially bad universes so it seems rather much of a downer in that sense.