Don’t Surround Yourself With the Smartest People

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Don’t Surround Yourself With the Smartest People Start thinking in vectors Rebecca Wang Jan 27, 2025 50 8 2 Share I always get sick before my birthday. It’s a predictable malaise—a week of feverish self-audits, apologetic emails to professors, etc. Last week, I looked it up—ChatGPT and DeepSeek attributed it to “thinking too much about the future” (a generous, poetic spin on my birthday’s overlap with MLK weekend post sickness). But, birthdays force us to confront the gap between who we are and who we want to become. Last week, a friend breezed past me in the quad, already late to his fourth c

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