{"id":10448,"date":"2017-05-15T11:55:01","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T15:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/?p=10448"},"modified":"2017-05-15T16:45:53","modified_gmt":"2017-05-15T20:45:53","slug":"what-does-it-mean-to-work-the-waitlist-as-a-stanford-engineering-undergrad-taking-e145","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/what-does-it-mean-to-work-the-waitlist-as-a-stanford-engineering-undergrad-taking-e145\/","title":{"rendered":"What Does It Mean To ‘Work The Waitlist’ as a Stanford Engineering Undergrad Taking E145"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Larry Chiang<\/div>\n
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I went to an undergrad institution that required us to waitlist ourselves for office hours. <\/div>\n
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You. You go to a college where Stanford professors provide you food so that you will visit them for office hours. Let me repeat, MS&E professors lure you to Huang with free food like supermodels posting instagrams woo you to #FyreFestival<\/div>\n
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Virtual. Reality. Simulate. Being. A. Stanford. Athlete. <\/div>\n
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Athletes understand having to work the waitlist. Delve into my protocol #cs183waitlist<\/a> if you’re in Engineering 145. Because stanford engineers who also hustle make the best tech founders. Because PG says so. Yes, Paul Graham from Lec 3; #stanford Engineering computer Science 183b “startup” (winter 2012)<\/font><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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5\/15\/17, 8:21 AM<\/font><\/a><\/div>\n
Waitlist. The best talent comes from the margins as per Paul Graham, cofounder of The “yCombinator”
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\nThere is a PG essay about talent in Silicon Valley and how it comes from marginalized places like the HP garage at 367 Addison (& also Huang)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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\n8am. You know there will flakes! Be there at 7:35 with a bag of bagels from Bagelicious. Look for @ChassonRandle in RIHS parking lot<\/span><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
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@ChassonRandle<\/a> If I were a Rock Island, IL #cs183dad<\/a>, I’d #cs183waitlist<\/a> by showing up at 7:54am w my 5′ 10+” 7th grader and Tweet Chasson @ 755am #09Jun17<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/yO7RKJBybv<\/a><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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5\/15\/17, 5:57 AM<\/font><\/a><\/div>\n
@ChassonRandle<\/a> If I were a Rock Island, IL #cs183dad<\/a>, I’d #cs183waitlist<\/a> by showing up at 7:54am w my 5′ 10+” 7th grader and Tweet Chasson @ 755am #09Jun17<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/yO7RKJBybv<\/a><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Sara Blakely is my dog’s Instagram friend. She worked the waitlist by getting her product into Nordstrom’s. <\/span><\/div>\n

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She’s neither single nor taken. <\/div>\n
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BJ Fogg. Before you succeed at protocol #cs183waitlist<\/a>, you will have much emotional fear. <\/font><\/div>\n
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After success with #cs183waitlist<\/a>. Hope rises. <\/font><\/div>\n
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Call to action. Waitlist yourself and go from waitlist to VIP. <\/div>\n
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https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eudADPfTWiE&sns=em<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n

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5\/15\/17, 8:35 AM<\/font><\/a><\/div>\n
2008. Waitlisted myself for #StartupSchool<\/a>. I got a bag of House of Bagel. Brought @paulg<\/a> book. Waited at 7am at Dinklespiel #cs183waitlist<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/tX5700sd3R<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n
https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WVKHwYJzVVc&sns=em<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n

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