I remember distinctly an interview with Murray Gell-Mann, 1969 Nobel Prize winning physicist, talking about when he applied to graduate schools. There was one bit I liked so much that I played it, and recorded it with my Psion 5mx.
Time passes, and recently I came across the Psion backups that I have, and there, in a directory, is the sound file. With the assistance of jacquesm from Hacker News I've converted (well, he converted) the file to an MP3: Murray.mp3
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I was somewhat disappointed that I wasn't admitted with financial aid
to an Ivy League graduate school, but I did get a very nice letter from MIT
saying that my tuition would be paid by an assistantship.
I was very much down in the dumps. I thought of MIT as a terribly grubby place - and I even went so far as to contemplate suicide, instead of going to MIT. But then it occured to me that I could always go to MIT first, and then commit suicide later, whereas the other way round wouldn't work - it's what we call in mathematics "Non Commutation" - the two things don't commute. |
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