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...ease with rejection is somewhat of an anomaly. While rejection has had little effect on Maats’ self-esteem, for students like Peter—a senior chemistry concentrator who spoke with FM on the condition that his real name not be revealed—rejection has become a constant source of embarrassment and shame. Sitting in a booth at the Hong Kong Restaurant—his raised bowl of egg drop soup steaming up his glasses—he bitterly recounts his many failures: graduate school admissions, fellowships and consulting jobs...
...called Director of Admissions Marlyn McGrath Lewis ’70-’73. “Aren’t we doing something wrong?” I asked. “I mean, isn’t the admissions office falling down on the job somewhat if people can’t tell the difference between us and Nittany Lions?” McGrath Lewis sought to reassure me. “The essence of it is that there are bright, engaging people at colleges around the country,” she said...
...These somewhat dubious delights aside, the place is still completely terrifying. Having finally pried the headphones away and worked through an acute case of coveting thy neighbor’s boyband-filled playlist (“Look, they even have the little-known trance remix of MmmBop!”), the only sound to be heard in the Reading Room is that of sheer productivity itself, or more specifically, the irritatingly incessant tapping of computer keyboards. Here is conclusive aural proof of the awesome industriousness of the surrounding scholars—a sound which invariably seems to increase in volume...
...best to deal with playing at somebody else’s home [both times],” Chu said, although he indicated that the Stanford atmosphere which followed was somewhat more challenging...
...disappointing to guys, but the teams that we’ve played out here are very good, they’re very accomplished at what they do, and I think that our [top-15] ranking at that point in the season [when] we got it was probably somewhat inflated...