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“On the other hand, we’ll take the person who has an A-minus GPA but spends most of her free time in a research lab breeding generations of flies for genetic tests, thank you very much.”
[from op of article]
"Which is exactly why the process is bull*. Because as a grad student, I can tell you that high school students mostly do jack * in the lab except waste my damn time. At least the ball washer is doing something useful for someone.
And keeping with the theme of this post, more often than not the high school kids that do work in labs are privileged/connected as ****, not Mary Sues struggling against the odds trying to cure cancerbolAIDS."
[from anonymous]