Failures

This page is an (infrequently updated) public record of my failures. In homage to Andrew Ryan:

“We all make failures, but in the end, our failures make us.”

2024

• Rejected by Anthropic (Culture Fit)
• Rejected by OpenAI for Preparedness Team (1st Technical Interview)

2023

• Failed to produce a high quality research paper from Meta GenAI internship
• Caused a shitshow with Stanford and the New York Times
• Rejected by OpenAI for AI Resident (Final Stage)

2022

2021

2020

• Rejected by Stanford’s Knight-Hennessy Scholarship without an interview
• Rejected by Berkeley EECS PhD, Harvard Applied Math PhD, Princeton CS PhD

2019

• Rejected by Oxford CS DPhil, Oxford Experimental Psychology DPhil
• Rejected by Stanford CS Masters, Berkeley EECS Masters

2018

• Rejected by Princeton Neuroscience PhD

2017

• Rejected by Stanford Master’s application

2016

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011

• Chose UC Davis (Regents Scholarship) over UC Berkeley (Regents Scholarship)
• Rejected by every Ivy League college I applied to (Harvard, Yale, Princeton, etc.) and Stanford

2010

• Placed 3rd at the US National Congressional Debate Championships for the 2nd year in a row

2009