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2. Google or Bitcoin sound like details compared to helping humanity to conquer new planets.
by rvnx 4y ago
2. Google or Bitcoin sound like details compared to helping humanity to conquer new planets.
- lisper 4y agoI didn't put my NASA story on the list because I consider my career there to have been largely a failure, but there is a luck story behind that as well: I never actually applied for my NASA job. I got it because I was a grad student and my Ph.D. advisor got offered a job (from one of his Yale buddies) and took me and another one of his students with him. And the only reason I had the advisor that I did was because I had applied to Stanford and MIT and both of them rejected me, so I was stuck at Virginia Tech. And the only reason I went to Virginia Tech instead of Stanford or MIT, both of which had admitted me as an undergrad, was because VT offered me a full scholarship and I have had a life-long aversion to being in debt. Also, the girls at VT were better-looking. :-)