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An article I wrote as a high school junior, republished in full, annotated with a decade of context attached.
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8 posts tagged Education
Going back to the essays that got me rejected from most UCs and talking about it. (I'm half joking, it was mostly my poor high school grades. I think these essays were stronger than my transcript.)
What two degrees at UC Davis actually taught me, and what I'd tell someone deciding whether to go.
My world broke, and I could suddenly see the architecture that broke it.
They said I don't pay attention. I explained that attention is, in fact, all you need.
They meant it as an insult. I took it as a specification, and derived the whole thing from scratch.
One torn ligament, four line items, and a bill somewhere north of $470 million.
Why has education barely changed since the conception of education?