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PhD candidate made a skirt out of rejection letters

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There exist at least these two books made of rejection letters:

https://www.barrelhousemag.com/shopone/thanks-and-sorry-and-...

and this one, in which the book is constituted by letters rejecting the book itself:

http://www.beardofbees.com/pubs/The_More_You_Reject_Me_the_B...

> Luring people into answering (and implicitly asking) an “unasked existential ques-tion” by contacting them about your conceptual book? In some ways it soundslike you’re a meta-author using editors as writing tools; in other ways it soundslike you’re just lazily getting editors to write a book for you. Please take this asconfirmation that I will not be writing any material for your book.

Hahaha the irony here is delicious.

Gilbert Sorrentino's Mulligan Stew leads off with rejection letters. One might question the authenticity, given some of the signatures, but they are entertaining.

I like the message, though thinking back to the number of jobs I've been rejected for, 17 seems like the tip of the ice berg when it comes to possible rejection.

Are you doing like thoughtful and tailored cover letters for each position or spamming your resume at them? If I take my time with applications and talk about their product in the cover letter I tend to almost always get a response. When I shotgun blast my resume at people I get very little response.

They said they were getting a response - rejection.

I was just thinking back to when I was brand new - my first job was 4 long months of sending out resumes.

The site requires answering a survey, which I didn't. This brought up an ethics scenario:

A website puts a very click-batey title, and gates the article/content with a survey. What happens after a person fills in the survey, and they find the content to be anti-climatic, or even outright incorrect?

Hm, when I visited there wasn’t a survey, but there were some pretty bad ads. Perhaps one of them redirected you to a survey?

What doesn't accept me makes me stronger.

Nice, I guess. Odd way to make the point that being rejected 17 times is fine though.

That's not healthy. Rejection is a part of life. The best response is to accept it, assess whether it warrants an adaption, and move on.

If you think I'm being harsh, picture this - what if a man made a fedora out of the profile pictures of all the women that had rejected him on tinder? Same principle really.

>what if a man made a fedora out of the profile pictures of all the women that had rejected him on tinder?

He'd break his neck.

> The best response is to accept it, assess whether it warrants an adaption, and move on.

I think the point of this piece of performance art may just be the very same message as yours...

Did you read the article? She wore the skirt as she defended her thesis. FTA:

> She defended her Ph.D. dissertation in the handcrafted regalia, not in spite, but to show that rejection is a natural part of the process in achieving goals.

I did, and I think she doth protest too much.

Again, picture the picture-fedora. What if the dude told you "it's just a natural part of the process of achieving goals" ? Would you think to yourself "wow there's a well rounded individual who handled that well"? Or would you think he was a fucking weirdo?

Why do you think your analogy is at all comparable?

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