I graduated from MIT with a 5.0... and I feel dumb AF

What happens when you put a not-so-big fish in an enormous-sized pond? You get this video heh


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0:00 Intro
0:35 Not being a "natural genius" at MIT
3:17 MIT's grading system (5.0 scale & PNRs)
4:30 Quality of education != Your college's ranking
5:45 Computer Science nerds EVERYWHERE
6:38 Staying for my Master's (MEng)
7:16 Why you (maybe) shouldn't apply to MIT


Hi I've given up on my video descriptions so here's a copy of the outline I made for this video so YouTube is happy:

Ever since I got to MIT, it's been painfully obvious how stupid I am compared to the true geniuses of the world (of all races)

I was not your stereotypical whiz kid, at least in my opinion
I slept for an average of like 4-5 hours a night in high school. This was partially due to poor time management, but it was also because I just wasn't that smart -- I had to grind for most of my grades in high school
-- IMPOSTER SYNDROME

Extremely smart friend group, Compensating for being dumb with other parts of my identity and personality, I might not ever be able to help you with your natural language processing homework, but hey, at least I can make you laugh!

How MIT's grading system works: You essentially get to take 4 classes on Pass/Fail -- believe me I took full advantage of that

Quality of education is NOT actually correlated with a school's ranking. MIT is the #2-ranked university but I honestly haven't felt like it's lived up to that hype. I've encountered a lot of bad professors -- don't have a passion for teaching, or assume everyone in the class is a certain amount of intelligence/familiarity with a topic

CS-poisoned mind at MIT, staying for my Master's degree, despite all of the videos I've made trashing MIT in the past

I make these videos because there isn't much content out there that discusses the downsides of going to schools like MIT, Harvard, Stanford
There's an entire genre of videos dedicated to people reacting to getting into top colleges -- my channel literally got off the ground because of one of those, and a follow-up video I made about how I got in
In many circles, college admissions have basically become people talking about how much they want to go to a certain school and how they can game the system to get in

So yes, I will be going to this school for another year. Yes, I will be using it in more YouTube titles to get a wider audience. And yes, I will make at least one more video that isn't simply romanticizing my experience here. At this point, it's become tradition.


Music:
serenity - lofi hip hop beat
Lo-fi Type Beat - "Lovely"


Thanks for watching!

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