NYT opinion article "Did I choose the wrong college "

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Anonymous wrote:I have a Latina friend who got in to Cornell 30 years ago. Apparently Cornell admits tons of people without fully funding them. She couldn't afford Cornell then and had to turn it down for a community college. She's now a loud-mouth low-level govt clerk. Yeah, the one you saw at DMV. After seeing her in action, I realized Cornell isn't all that. It's a school that takes in a CC-level student for stats purpose.

Perhaps you'd like to explain what being a Latina has to do with anything else that your wrote?

urm

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She probably had bottom decile stats for Cornell and was treated like an idiot by Ivy peers. Then she majored in something easy and low paying.

It’s not Cornell’s fault she didn’t find a husband and is now childless in flyover country.

[Anonymous]

English is not an easy major. I know that it has a reputation for being easy peasy but that is not the reality at all.

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I did product management and corporate development. English majors were my best hires. Critical thinking and writing skills = gold.

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Anonymous wrote:I did product management and corporate development. English majors were my best hires. Critical thinking and writing skills = gold.

That’s more so because most ivy English majors by and large come from UMC families and elite high schools.

Strivers from first gen look for more readily employeable like engineering or medicine

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I did product management and corporate development. English majors were my best hires. Critical thinking and writing skills = gold.

Yep.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I did product management and corporate development. English majors were my best hires. Critical thinking and writing skills = gold.

That’s more so because most ivy English majors by and large come from UMC families and elite high schools.

Strivers from first gen look for more readily employeable like engineering or medicine

The ones I hired weren't from UMC. They just really liked studying English. Their biggest issue is finding hiring managers willing to give it a try. Admittedly my 1st hire was because I got tired of interviewing and rejecting brown nosers that HR kept sending and I just liked her. Never looked back.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I did product management and corporate development. English majors were my best hires. Critical thinking and writing skills = gold.

That’s more so because most ivy English majors by and large come from UMC families and elite high schools.

Strivers from first gen look for more readily employeable like engineering or medicine

The ones I hired weren't from UMC. They just really liked studying English. Their biggest issue is finding hiring managers willing to give it a try. Admittedly my 1st hire was because I got tired of interviewing and rejecting brown nosers that HR kept sending and I just liked her. Never looked back.

Sample size of 1.

[Anonymous]

True. Admittedly I'm proud of how well my former people have done. They all went on to executive ranks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:English is not an easy major. I know that it has a reputation for being easy peasy but that is not the reality at all.

I agree. Now, communications...

[Anonymous]

Problem with schools like Cornell that allows CC level students in for their stats purpose is that you never know what level this tenured prof is. It's actually an insult to otherwise equally competent students who will be looked on with suspicious minds that they must be from the lower decile.

[Anonymous]

I was disappointed in this article. The author's life turned out great, so there really didn't seem to be any reason to ask the title question, other than maybe pitching an op-ed to the NYT. I didn't feel I learned anything. Yes, picking a college is difficult. There are trade-offs. Different students and families are willing to make different trade-offs, depending on their values and life situations. Duh.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She could go get some crummy non-tenured teaching gig in Miami tomorrow. She doesn't want the sun, she wants a multi-million dollar tacky mansion. She's in Nebraska for the $ and prestige of a tenure gig.

In the end, she's in shithole Lincoln, NE...

Should've saved all that money...honey!

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Anonymous wrote:Tenure is a pay bump, prob about $7-10k at Nebraska, so she's going to make approx. $85k this year. Nearing six figures before factoring in perks in ultra low cost flyover country.

Yeah but who wants to live in Lincoln Nebraska????

Judging by population statistics, not many.

Lincoln Nebraska has been rated in the top ten best college towns. She could do way worse than that.

LOL...Lincoln...teaching at a second-rate public school...with a Cornell degree!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was struck by her lack of self awareness and the blame she seemed to attach to her parents. It was a weird piece.

That's 99% of Oped pieces in the NYT.

Somehow it's a magnet for the clueless and the entitled.