Anjali Girish Patel

Texas A&M University '19. Texas Chiropractic ‘21.

[Anjali Girish Patel @AnjGPatel]

We put the fun in dysfunctional
#FamilyOverEverything

[Vivek Ramaswamy @VivekGRamaswamy]

The reason top tech companies often hire foreign-born & first-generation engineers over “native” Americans isn’t because of an innate American IQ deficit (a lazy & wrong explanation). A key part of it comes down to the c-word: culture. Tough questions demand tough answers & if we’re really serious about fixing the problem, we have to confront the TRUTH:

Our American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long (at least since the 90s and likely longer). That doesn’t start in college, it starts YOUNG.

A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian, will not produce the best engineers.

A culture that venerates Cory from “Boy Meets World,” or Zach & Slater over Screech in “Saved by the Bell,” or ‘Stefan’ over Steve Urkel in “Family Matters,” will not produce the best engineers.

(Fact: I know *multiple* sets of immigrant parents in the 90s who actively limited how much their kids could watch those TV shows precisely because they promoted mediocrity…and their kids went on to become wildly successful STEM graduates).

More movies like Whiplash, fewer reruns of “Friends.” More math tutoring, fewer sleepovers. More weekend science competitions, fewer Saturday morning cartoons. More books, less TV. More creating, less “chillin.” More extracurriculars, less “hanging out at the mall.”

Most normal American parents look skeptically at “those kinds of parents.” More normal American kids view such “those kinds of kids” with scorn. If you grow up aspiring to normalcy, normalcy is what you will achieve.

Now close your eyes & visualize which families you knew in the 90s (or even now) who raise their kids according to one model versus the other. Be brutally honest.

“Normalcy” doesn’t cut it in a hyper-competitive global market for technical talent. And if we pretend like it does, we’ll have our asses handed to us by China.

This can be our Sputnik moment. We’ve awaken from slumber before & we can do it again. Trump’s election hopefully marks the beginning of a new golden era in America, but only if our culture fully wakes up. A culture that once again prioritizes achievement over normalcy; excellence over mediocrity; nerdiness over conformity; hard work over laziness.

That’s the work we have cut out for us, rather than wallowing in victimhood & just wishing (or legislating) alternative hiring practices into existence. I’m confident we can do it. 🇺🇸 🇺🇸

[X @X]

we know why you’re all here rn

[K🧸 @_krystelaa]

y’all smell that? Smells like christmas to me

[Anjali Girish Patel @AnjGPatel]

See you at the Mandap 🤍

June 24-26, 2022.

@SagarLovesFood

[Rach Idowu @AdultingADHD @AdultingADHD]

Anyone else with ADHD feel guilty for not catching up with certain people that actually mean a lot to you? Even though they probably understand, it still makes me feel so unsettled on the inside. There’s always a lot going on and I’m so easily overwhelmed

[Rusty Surette @RustySuretteTV]

🟥CAUGHT ON CAMERA: A woman was arrested after she was caught riding on top of a train going through Bryan-College Station.

MORE DETAILS: https://t.co/56XJbAXSVj

📸: Video courtesy: Stephen Hodge

[emily @em_witt_17]

have they tried making coffee at home and packing their lunches

[himcapital @himcapitalX]

Best revenge is letting people see they ain’t stop shit

[Wayne 🦧 @WillOfPhortune]

Slavery was at least 100x worse than what you were told about it

[Iyanu Ade, M.A| RN @IyanuEvolved]

A lot of mean girls disguised as empowered women.

[gigi @420insidejob]

crippling adhd got me moving like a sim bro. all i do is get up, walk around, go into a room and stand there and wait for my monkey brain to be assigned its next action

[kelli 🌸 @atkelli_]

so i just found out that if you create a baby registry @ target they give you a free welcome kit (worth $150 & no in-store purchase necessary) 🙂 spread to help a mommy to be!

[maybe: clare @clur19]

Me on my way to critique the outfits from the Met Gala last night

[D. King, MD @doctorORbust]

Remember all of those people who said learning biology and chemistry was a waste of time and we should just focus on our major/interests?

Then COVID19 hit and everyone has an opinion on mRNA.

[McLovin ❤️‍🔥 @iCumNutella_]

I'm officially at the age where I'm not upgrading my iphone until it stops working

[Angee @AngeeGabs]

Broken English is a sign of courage and intelligence and it would be nice if more people remembered that when interacting with immigrants and refugees.