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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do you genuinely not get that there's a difference between a grinder and someone who works really hard because they are genuinely and intrinsically passionate about some cause other than prestige or self-promotion?

I've known both types of students. It can be really hard to tell them apart on the surface. I'm sure admissions committees make mistakes all the tie. [/quote]

My first gen immigrant parents worked really hard to provide a better quality of life for future generations. They didn’t have the luxury of being “genuinely and intrinsically passionate” about their jobs. It sounds like you would use term “grinder” pejoratively regarding people like them?[/quote]

Oh, give me a break. I'm actually first gen, both as an immigrant and as the first gen to attend college. And yet I was still raised with values besides caring about money and self-promotion and can tell the difference between a grinder/striver/curator and an intrinsically motivated person with genuine scholarly interests.[/quote]

The classic example is Isaac Asimov. He was an immigrant kid who grew up running his family’s bodegas, was very hard-working, and was a naturally brilliant person who certainly loved learning for the sake of learning.

And, partly because he was skipped two grades in school, and partly because of antisemitism, he wasn’t even considered good enough to get into the regular Columbia undergraduate college. Columbia stuck him in a junior college that was probably below the level of the modern Columbia general studies college that people here mock. [/quote]

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