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I would love to read your take after few years. Maybe you can do a Tell HN after 10 years.

I'm not from the US, so I cannot give any direct practical advice. But, all I can say is, if you choose to go to MIT, just make sure that it is not the only worthy accomplishment in your whole life. Most people from prestigious institutions tend to say they they graduated from XXX/YYY as the only thing worth mentioning about them. While not bad, if that is the only worthy thing to share, then those prestigious schools are not great after all ...

Whatever you decide, all the best.

> I would love to read your take after few years. Maybe you can do a Tell HN after 10 years.

That's a great idea. I'll reveal the contents of this hash to prove that the person who posts in 10 years is indeed who I am:

    af6fd692d9f831fe08801a24db27137edf2fd12ce9a6cbe62a23b0696b077dcb

> But, all I can say is, if you choose to go to MIT, just make sure that it is not the only worthy accomplishment in your whole life.

Even if I decided to go to MIT today, I'd still probably say that some of the OSS work I've done is something I'm more proud of than having gotten into MIT. That said, I hope that in 10 years neither of those things is what I'm most proud of.

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