Comments on: Destination Now Approaching: College Admissions

By: Towards A New Paradigm of Mental Health And An Enlightened Society | Max Marmer

Sat, 17 Sep 2011 23:39:32 +0000

[...] continually carved out my own path and preserved my own autonomy. I read about subjects I was interested in, I started projects I [...]

By: Medicating Ourselves Into Lives Not Worth Living Part 2: Towards A New Paradigm of Mental Health And An Enlightened Society | Max Marmer

Sat, 17 Sep 2011 22:13:34 +0000

[...] continually carved out my own path and preserved my own autonomy. I read about subjects I was interested in, I started projects I was [...]

By: Max Marmer » Blog Archive » Why I’m Stopping Out Of Stanford and Applying For The Thiel 20 Under 20 Fellowship

Mon, 27 Dec 2010 00:22:57 +0000

[...] was my dream school. It had been marked with a big red X for years on my roadmap of life. The first time I applied I got rejected. I wanted it bad enough that I applied again a year later and got in. But by the time I arrived on [...]

By: Hustlin’ case study: How to get into your dream organization — after getting rejected | YMI Doing This?

Tue, 21 Dec 2010 16:16:52 +0000

[...] wrote a blog post about getting rejected and my experience with college admissions. I accepted Berkley as a [...]

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 15:07:00 +0000

Poetic justice! You’re proved right, Max. You believed in yourself even though it’s not the typical “get a job or go to college model.” Thankfully, your parents believed in you enough to let you “live off” them for another year (I presume).

By the way, getting kicked out of your house at 18 has nothing to do with a magical coming of age; it’s an entirely cultural phenomenon.

By: Hustlin’ case study: How to get into your dream organization — after getting rejected « twitter-1k.com

Mon, 13 Dec 2010 14:16:31 +0000

[...] wrote a blog post about getting rejected and my experience with college admissions. I accepted Berkley as a [...]

By: Hustlin’ case study: How to get into your dream organization — after getting rejected | I Will Teach You To Be Rich

Mon, 13 Dec 2010 05:44:38 +0000

[...] wrote a blog post about getting rejected and my experience with college admissions. I accepted Berkley as a [...]

By: reader

reader — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:31:22 +0000

this blog reminds me of aleksey vayner

By: reader

reader — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:31:00 +0000

this blog reminds me of aleksey vayner

By: Jhorwitz

Jhorwitz — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 10:46:23 +0000

Yes this should have been about max, and it was, until you made it about you. Your ranting showed you hadn’t bothered to really read or understand what max was saying, preferring to believe your own skewed image of what you wanted to read, and this is the same perception of reality you have of how me and max act “in person,” as I respect and want to help advise max the same ways “in person” as I do online. We agree sometimes and disagree sometimes, but for the most part I’d say we learn from each other well enough.

And still I find it VERY curious that you somehow think you know anything whatsoever about me and max in real life, unless your super secret personality is someone with hidden cameras scattered around his house for the past two years.

I was surprised, and relieved, to hear your retraction of the “disgust” comment, and less surprised to hear your stubbornness to rethink the rest of your comments, but still I would venture to say it’s best to leave it on that note.