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>“My thought was, okay, let’s just wait. If he is serious, he’s going to ask me again,” says Song, professor of neurology

This is a horribly destructive attitude, that promotes salesmanship over technical talent.

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You might be amazed at the level of flakiness among high school students.

I totally agree (and at the same time assume that just the story he tell now, he probably just ignored it because he gets hundreds of emails a day. When he got the third he may have thought: I should say something before he spams me the whole day). Its a typical strategy that works as long as not everyone is doing it.

And they're certainly going to be doing it now!

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