Connie Chung was embarrassed by attending UMD

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Anonymous wrote:In her memoir she says very clearly that at the time she went to UMD (1964), the admission standards were low and people joked that if you lived in MD you got in as long as you had a heartbeat. She goes on to say that NOW is an entirely different story and that the university transformed itself into a highly competitive institution, and that she would not get in today.

Proud Terp alum here and I feel the same way. And I went there 30 years after she did. I wouldn’t get in now and I was in the Honors program back then. It’s an entirely different school now.

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She is not embarrassed by marrying Maury Povich? He invented the on air DNA test surprise for a talk show host. Jerry Springer would be nowhere without Maury Povich.

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Anonymous wrote:She is not embarrassed by marrying Maury Povich? He invented the on air DNA test surprise for a talk show host. Jerry Springer would be nowhere without Maury Povich.

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Anonymous wrote:Back in the day UMD allowed in the geniuses that invented

The octane system
Pulse Doppler Radar.
Launched Sirius satellite
The bar code for prices
Created Google
Created Underarmour
Larry David - Seinfeld
Jim Henson- muppets
David Simon - the wire
Kenny Kramm- FlavorX
Alex Severinsky - hybrid engine
Harry Smith- pulse Doppler radar
Kevin Plank- underarmour
Sergey Brin - Google
George Laurer - the Universal Price Bar Code
Robert Briskman - launched Sirius Satellite
James Clark - soft contact lenses
Robert Fischell- artificial pancreas, flexible artery stents , rechargeable pacemaker
Brendan Irebe - oculus

Russell Marker- the octane system
Tim Sweeney- Epic Games / Fortnite
George Danzig- linear programming
Carl Bernstein- Broke Watergate


It blows away every school in the mid Atlantic

Mid-Atlantic includes New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia. UMD would not even be close to the top in terms of alumni accomplishments.

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Anonymous wrote:I'd be embarrassed too.

Oh where did you go to school

Oxford university, in England for my BA and Cambridge for my MA.

Always a troll.

Definitely a troll. My sister went to Cambridge and always calls it an MPhil, per their terminology. No one who actually went to those schools would use the wrong terminology for the degree.

I adapted my terminology specifically for dumb Americans.

Sure you did. Bark. Bark.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She is not embarrassed by marrying Maury Povich? He invented the on air DNA test surprise for a talk show host. Jerry Springer would be nowhere without Maury Povich.

I know! Now THAT is a little embarrassing.

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I love looking up where various successful people I see on the news, various reality shows went to school. It's always extremely varied, with many going to much "worse" schools than UMD back in the day. People really need to stop being snobs about education. A motivated, intelligent person will do well anywhere.