If I’m ever The next time I’m in a job-hunting situation I’ll use a version of this response to a rejection letter. Turbulent Velvet reveals he wrote it, finding

it is “from the original email that I sent to seven or eight close friends back when I was in grad school. I had no idea it had ever leaked out from this circle and become an anonymous meme that’s still filling up four pages of Googlesearch seven or eight years after the fact.”