CV of Failures

Inspired by this Nature column by Melanie Stefan, a neurobiologist now based in Berlin.

• 2024: Rejected at pre-submission by Blood Advances and Blood Reviews and after editorial review at JAMA’s Poetry & Medicine section (x3) and Annals of Internal Medicine’s Ad Libitum section (x3)
• 2023: Rejected from PhD programmes at the University of Oxford (x2) and University College London
• 2021: Rejected from summer internships at the Knowledge Quarter, the Association for Young People’s Health, and Costello Medical
• 2019: Rejected from undergraduate degrees at Dartmouth College, Swarthmore College, Amherst College, Tufts University, and the University of Southern California