[MIT recruiter meets Lip walking to his house]
Your insipid essay question asks me to tell you in 250 words about my most significant challenge in life. Honestly, it's hard to pick one. My guess is that you want to hear about my alcoholic father and my runaway mom or maybe about... you would eat that shit up. But those aren't my greatest challenges in life. An education system that pretends to be a meritocracy. My 4.6 GPA.
What would you want to study at MIT? Provided you could get past my well-meaning oblivion and the proximity of The Red Sox.
Robotics. But none of that undergrad filler bullshit. No 200-seat lectures taught by TAs. I just want the shit out in front of me.
The shit?
Yeah, the tools, you know, the toys, The stuff I can't get access to in my ghetto high school.
Why?
Because I'd like to hang out with C-3PO in my lifetime. And at the rate you're going, that shit's not gonna happen.
I'm not following. You don't want to go to classes, you just want to play in a lab.
I don't want to sit in a lecture that teaches me how to modify algorithms instead of think for myself.
And?
Okay, the people working the weaving machines in the 17th century, you know, they didn't see the steam engine coming. One invention: Industrial revolution. I mean, Encyclopedia Britannica didn't see Wikipedia coming. Great things don't happen in tiny little increments. You know, they happen when someone thinks completely differently. And all you geniuses, you just- you're just modifying algorithms.
C-3PO, huh?
That dude's a badass. You know, he's fluent in over 6 million forms of communication.
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