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anonMcKinsey
6mo ago
The product that I am referring to that companyX makes was probably used today, in some form, by >80% of the global population this morning. Everyone would recognize it. Cartoons have made jokes about these product since the dawn of anim
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anonMcKinsey
6mo ago
Often the B+ students are way sharper but have poor incentives to work for the As. This creates bad work habits for them. The As, then, are better at the game. Once you've become a TA and have to grade the exams, you realize how A grad
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6mo ago
I was a B/B- student from a foreign top 100 university. I don't know how I got accepted to a top 5 engineering school in the US. I accepted and ended my PhD with a 3.3. Im not very bright or hardworking. What did I see at the univ
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anonMcKinsey
6mo ago
"US produce... mostly not very bright people?" The top universities are not setup to mold intellectually rigorous and curious people. It's setup to make hard working, and increasingly sycophant men. My lab mate is a former dr
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6mo ago
99.9% of the world doesn't live in the US with a 4.0 GPA from a top ten university. They're not very bright, most of them. But they're very hard workers and high achievers. They stay for the resume candy or the health care.
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6mo ago
Not really when you normalize by hours you are expected to work. You're also surrounded by spineless sycophantic keeners without an original thought in their heads who would throw you off the building for a good review. It reminds me o