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To view keyboard shortcuts, press question mark View keyboard shortcuts Home Notifications Chat Bookmarks Articles Profile More Tweet Nicklaus Tran @nickktrannn Tweet See new posts Conversation Pinned Anna Mitchell @annarmitchell my advice for undergrads: grinding >> grifting 9 10 147 36K "$10M by 30 is no longer enough!" a recently graduated Stanford friend told me he’d been hearing this from others in his class. I’m noticing a concerning trend: elite college students are paranoid about being left in the permanent underclass. Grifting feels like the way to avoid this. I used to be Editor-in-Chief of the Stanford Review. I'm still very involved with the paper. Every year we see more students who show up to meetings to "meet Peter Thiel" and never write anything. They don't make it far in the organization. We still value merit - you don’t get ahead unless you write great articles. Over the past few years as a hiring manager, I’ve seen more and more elite college students’ resumes that

Anna Mitchell @annarmitchell my advice for undergrads: grinding >> grifting 5:11 PM · Mar 2, 2026 42.8K Views 9 0 9 8 0 8 161 0 1 6 1 134 0 1 3 4 Read 9 replies

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