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> Three years later, Sarnecka threw the Mount Olympus–themed rejection party in Vickers’s honor—Vickers had finished her Ph.D. in ancient Greek philosophy and w

by platz 5y ago

> Three years later, Sarnecka threw the Mount Olympus–themed rejection party in Vickers’s honor—Vickers had finished her Ph.D. in ancient Greek philosophy and was moving on from UC Irvine. They seem to be doing OK.

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metadat 5y ago
Emphatically encourage others to RTFA before upvoting TFA. I won’t flag it, but the author doesn’t seem like an actual reject, and thus it’s pure clickbait. I feel like I was a true and legitimate reject, at least throughout my youth and tweens. I know in the core of my soul that real rejects would never include casual humble brags about PHDs while claiming to understand or have learned what it’s like to be rejected by The System and/or society. Getting rejected by Stanford, Harvard, UCs or whatever, doesn’t count in my book. People in these buckets rarely, if ever, fall far from The Tree of Thine Holy Kingdom. Real rejects don’t have the resources of the elite ruling class. Proposed improved HN time sinks for today: 1. Read the comments and links in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30039597 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30039597 (though not the actual post linking to Twitter, it’s pointless and hopefully dang will update it). 2. The Steak Article, lol: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30041026 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30041026
- chiefalchemist 5y ago
  The reliability and legitimacy of The Atlantic gets worse and worse. The Left lean doesn't bother me at all. The shameless elitist disconnect is unacceptable.
- avgcorrection 5y ago
  I’m such a slob I know I am weak I only worked out five times this week I’m such a knob I’m filled with self-hate My brother speaks nine languages while I only speak eight
  - sdwr 5y ago
    It's all relative. Going to the gym every day gives you exposure to the people who work out every day and do it like they're fighting for their lives. All of a sudden showing up and doing a couple squats doesn't feel as impressive :)
    - ikr678 5y ago
      Yeah but while in the gym looking up at the fighters and the more progressed, you can't see the thousands of people sitting at home on the lounge all day long. Don't always compare up.
    - DarylZero 5y ago
      Work out and do steroids, that's how you get looking like that.
- version_five 5y ago
  No kidding: More than 100 rejections. Grants, journal articles, fellowships—you name it, they’d been denied it. Being in the social strata where your rejections are effectively failed subsidies is not really the place to complain about how hard done by you are (I'm in the same class). I'd be much more interested in something written by eg a salesperson who sees constant rejection and has to handle it live, vs some academics emailing in applications and then having a toga party when they are not successful. My advice to anyone who identifies with the article is to get out of a academia for a while to change your perspective. There is a whole world out there
  - jimmaswell 5y ago
    > More than 100 rejections. Grants, journal articles, fellowships—you name it, they’d been denied it. Sounds exactly like my time trying to date in college.
    - nicbou 5y ago
      Or anyone looking for an apartment where I live
- yuuu 5y ago
  If you are interested in knowing the stories of the true rejects of the world, I encourage following the YouTube channel Soft White Underbelly: https://www.youtube.com/c/SoftWhiteUnderbelly https://www.youtube.com/c/SoftWhiteUnderbelly

by platz 5y ago

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metadat 5y ago

Emphatically encourage others to RTFA before upvoting TFA. I won’t flag it, but the author doesn’t seem like an actual reject, and thus it’s pure clickbait. I feel like I was a true and legitimate reject, at least throughout my youth and tweens. I know in the core of my soul that real rejects would never include casual humble brags about PHDs while claiming to understand or have learned what it’s like to be rejected by The System and/or society. Getting rejected by Stanford, Harvard, UCs or whatever, doesn’t count in my book. People in these buckets rarely, if ever, fall far from The Tree of Thine Holy Kingdom. Real rejects don’t have the resources of the elite ruling class. Proposed improved HN time sinks for today: 1. Read the comments and links in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30039597 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30039597 (though not the actual post linking to Twitter, it’s pointless and hopefully dang will update it). 2. The Steak Article, lol: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30041026 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30041026

chiefalchemist 5y ago
The reliability and legitimacy of The Atlantic gets worse and worse. The Left lean doesn't bother me at all. The shameless elitist disconnect is unacceptable.
avgcorrection 5y ago
I’m such a slob I know I am weak I only worked out five times this week I’m such a knob I’m filled with self-hate My brother speaks nine languages while I only speak eight
- sdwr 5y ago
  It's all relative. Going to the gym every day gives you exposure to the people who work out every day and do it like they're fighting for their lives. All of a sudden showing up and doing a couple squats doesn't feel as impressive :)
  - ikr678 5y ago
    Yeah but while in the gym looking up at the fighters and the more progressed, you can't see the thousands of people sitting at home on the lounge all day long. Don't always compare up.
  - DarylZero 5y ago
    Work out and do steroids, that's how you get looking like that.
version_five 5y ago
No kidding: More than 100 rejections. Grants, journal articles, fellowships—you name it, they’d been denied it. Being in the social strata where your rejections are effectively failed subsidies is not really the place to complain about how hard done by you are (I'm in the same class). I'd be much more interested in something written by eg a salesperson who sees constant rejection and has to handle it live, vs some academics emailing in applications and then having a toga party when they are not successful. My advice to anyone who identifies with the article is to get out of a academia for a while to change your perspective. There is a whole world out there
- jimmaswell 5y ago
  > More than 100 rejections. Grants, journal articles, fellowships—you name it, they’d been denied it. Sounds exactly like my time trying to date in college.
  - nicbou 5y ago
    Or anyone looking for an apartment where I live
yuuu 5y ago
If you are interested in knowing the stories of the true rejects of the world, I encourage following the YouTube channel Soft White Underbelly: https://www.youtube.com/c/SoftWhiteUnderbelly https://www.youtube.com/c/SoftWhiteUnderbelly