<p>Just to clarify: I have no problem with people being upset over rejection - that is perfectly normal/ok. But to imply that being rejected from MIT is a "traumatic" experience? That's absurd. More absurd than my telling people to be grateful for what they have, since many people have far less, and experience real trauma. Being a victim of war, witnessing death, etc is real trauma; not getting into a certain college is not. And I never said "stop whining people die due to starvation".</p>