College advice

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This post is a collection of several blogposts about college advice, or advice not directly about college but germane to it. Each post is worth reading in full, though I have added excerpts. To start with, Ben Kuhn’s college advice for people exactly like him: Get better at deciding what to do One thing I wish I’d had more of in college is something like a sense of taste: not aesthetic taste, but more “taste for what’s awesome” or “taste in good projects.” (My role model for good project-taste was my friend Adrian, who coauthored articles in Nature, Science and Cell before graduating.) Good taste is what will guide you to doing effective things, instead of pointless things, in college. But it’s also really hard to develop good taste while in college, because you have no models of good taste except for academics. Academics’ taste is often deeply weird and driven by what niche will get them tenure rather than what is exciting or useful, so it’s good to have other models of taste too. My

Get new posts emailed to you: This post is a collection of ~150 blogposts about college advice, or advice not directly about college but germane to it. Each post is worth reading in full, though I have added excerpts. To start with, Ben Kuhn’s college advice for people exactly like him : Get better at deciding what to do One thing I wish I’d had more of in college is something like a sense of taste : not aesthetic taste, but more “taste for what’s awesome” or “taste in good projects.” (My role model for good project-taste was my friend Adrian , who coauthored articles in Nature , Science and C

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