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by navait 13y ago
I am a fresh graduate, and I came into university with the same attitude as him, in a scholarship program full of people with my attitude. Fortunately, the dean talked to my freshman class during orientation. He said: "Yes, you're
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by navait 13y ago
Sigh. Another special snowflake lamenting that the system didn't bend to exactly his needs. What you get out of university is what you put into it. Want to be judged for something other than test taking? Get involved in research. Get i
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by navait 13y ago
Fortunately, we have HM to reassure ourselves we are so much smarter than everyone else.
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by navait 13y ago
It's a piece about a woman's experiences with feminist movments, its impact on her career and how it's worked out for her. Does everything have to be about you?
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by navait 14y ago
I started a white house petition to mandate federal agencies also provide plain-text data: http://wh.gov/MIXT
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by navait 14y ago
Why should tech people play video games? Video games rely on computers to work, but other than that, how are they closer to the soul of communities like hackernews than traditional art? Does being interested in programming mean people can'
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The Problem With Hackers(tchitcherines.tumblr.com)
1 points by navait 14y ago|0 comments
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by navait 14y ago
"Why Nerds are Unpopular" was always my least favorite of the pg essays. The thought "Nerds serve two masters. They want to be popular, certainly, but they want even more to be smart" is arrogant. I don't think nerdiness implicitly makes th
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Cruel and Unusual Punishment: The Shame of Three Strikes Laws(rollingstone.com)
18 points by navait 14y ago|3 comments
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by navait 14y ago
The IRS was recruiting for interns at my university recently, who could eventually become full time workers. However, I found that at best I could enter as a GS-9, and those were positions with 5 years of expirience. The best salary I could
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by navait 14y ago
"This is Running for Your Life", a collection of essays by Michelle Orange. She writes about a trip to Beirut and her grandmother's death to discuss our cuture's relationship with nostalgia and death. Very witty and fascinating - I ook forw
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by navait 14y ago
What are you studying?
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Ask HN: Value of a master's degree in CS?
14 points by navait 14y ago|12 comments
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The ghost machine(tchitcherines.tumblr.com)
3 points by navait 14y ago|0 comments