Shawn Ryan

The mission is to get this book in the hands of some MIT professor.

cool people.

And it was like, you give flowers to the secretaries or whatever, things like that.

So a lot of networking as a kid and eventually it helped because I had some friends who could be like, hey, admissions office, like maybe she didn't present this clearly enough in her application.

This is kind of cool.

Let her in.

And I got in off the wait list to MIT.

Off the wait list to MIT.

Yeah.

That way.

Yeah.

And I got rejected.

But I mean, to be fair, lots of kids get rejected.

Lots of awesome kids get rejected.

It's not something, it's something more about like...

teaching you not to like rely on other things happening for you that you can't control, right?

So like, yeah.

It was probably this type of networking thing, like, you know, trying to, like, rely on some people who could vouch for me once you're on this wait list.

Well, it was the plane, exactly.

So I'm saying this whole me going around with, like, the little, like, photo book of the airplane and then meeting MIT.