NYT opinion article "Did I choose the wrong college "

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cornell is kind of a joke in the ivies, since it is part land grant school with majors in animal husbandry and hotel administration. Those hallmates that teased the pig farmer daughters were way out of touch.

I knew that when I saw my low-level govt employee friend who got into Cornell wins ago. She's rude, loud, and position heavy when dealing with customers. Absolutely not an intellectual. Yet Cornell took her.

Dumb classmates and employees come from every college. Not just Cornell. But let’s use sweeping generalizations to explain dumb people we meet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cornell is kind of a joke in the ivies, since it is part land grant school with majors in animal husbandry and hotel administration. Those hallmates that teased the pig farmer daughters were way out of touch.

I knew that when I saw my low-level govt employee friend who got into Cornell wins ago. She's rude, loud, and position heavy when dealing with customers. Absolutely not an intellectual. Yet Cornell took her.

Yet, here you are, still working for the government making fun of people - who work for the government.

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Two books published, NPR appearances, 9x contributor to the New york times ... and U. of Nebraska pays her $80,000 per year (seems to teach in both english and ethnic studies departments).

Most of that isn't possible with a public U credential. I think her only regret is not fetching a rich husband and probably bitter she's in her late 30s without kids.

If she wanted a rich lifestyle maybe english major with a focus in "Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies" was shortsighted.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cornell is kind of a joke in the ivies, since it is part land grant school with majors in animal husbandry and hotel administration. Those hallmates that teased the pig farmer daughters were way out of touch.

I knew that when I saw my low-level govt employee friend who got into Cornell wins ago. She's rude, loud, and position heavy when dealing with customers. Absolutely not an intellectual. Yet Cornell took her.

Yet, here you are, still working for the government making fun of people - who work for the government.

No. Cornell isn't all that.

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Anonymous wrote:I love reading NYT comments:

“A few years back while working at a Wall Street firm, we had summer interns from Columbia, Amherst, Princeton and the University of Florida all vying for one offer. The kid from the U of F got the job and it wasn’t close. So much better prepared, so much less entitled, and just as smart.

As for the notion that there are schools that give out golden tickets, rest assured that is utter baloney, but it persists. The best of the best don’t need the school (Gates, Zuckerberg, Jobs) anyway. It is merely a heuristic for our lazy minds.

With college applications/demand and costs soaring as well as certain cohorts being given priority at the most “elite” schools while supply has not changed, great candidates are cascading down to the supposed next tier of university. The net result will over time be a much wider array of top schools - and that is a good thing. Go and look at the reputation change at BC, Northeastern and so many others over the past 30 years, cause it is jaw dropping. This trend will persist.

Tim Cook went to Auburn, Michael Dell went to Texas, Mark Cuban went to Indiana, etc and there are tons of other non Ivy, MIT, Stanford success stories”

Cook has an MBA from Duke. These three examples are outliers. It's like saying that Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg dropped out of college so why get a degree?

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And both Gates and Zuck grew up rich, attending top private schools. Zuck attended possibly the #1 high school in the world, Exeter.

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Anonymous wrote:
If she wanted a rich lifestyle maybe english major with a focus in "Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies" was shortsighted.

Yeah, a poor girl shouldn't major in english if she dreams of a decadent lifestyle. English only makes you rich(er) if you're a born rich girl or pretty girl in a top sorority mixing with rich boys for 4 years.

The writer went to school with a lot of grinds who were no doubt studying engineering, medicine, law, and banking. In retrospect it should be obvious that she pursued the wrong path and mixed with the wrong people. But don't blame Cornell, they put it on a platter for her.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
If she wanted a rich lifestyle maybe english major with a focus in "Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies" was shortsighted.

Yeah, a poor girl shouldn't major in english if she dreams of a decadent lifestyle. English only makes you rich(er) if you're a born rich girl or pretty girl in a top sorority mixing with rich boys for 4 years.

The writer went to school with a lot of grinds who were no doubt studying engineering, medicine, law, and banking. In retrospect it should be obvious that she pursued the wrong path and mixed with the wrong people. But don't blame Cornell, they put it on a platter for her.

Boo hoo for her. She's a tenured professor living in a college town. There are worse lives to lead than that. Good freakin' grief.

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She's not tenured. I think tenured profs make far more than $78k.

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Anonymous wrote:She's not tenured. I think tenured profs make far more than $78k.

She'll probably end up adjunk. Don't be rushing to marry her just yet.

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She says in the piece she is recently tenured. She has led a charmed career so far in academia and thought leadership. Has a secure position at a major U in a LCOL area. I assume her regret comes from not being rich? It is hard to tell what her regret is exactly.

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Anonymous wrote:She says in the piece she is recently tenured. She has led a charmed career so far in academia and thought leadership. Has a secure position at a major U in a LCOL area. I assume her regret comes from not being rich? It is hard to tell what her regret is exactly.

She's a glass half empty sorta gal I guess.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
If she wanted a rich lifestyle maybe english major with a focus in "Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies" was shortsighted.

Yeah, a poor girl shouldn't major in english if she dreams of a decadent lifestyle. English only makes you rich(er) if you're a born rich girl or pretty girl in a top sorority mixing with rich boys for 4 years.

The writer went to school with a lot of grinds who were no doubt studying engineering, medicine, law, and banking. In retrospect it should be obvious that she pursued the wrong path and mixed with the wrong people. But don't blame Cornell, they put it on a platter for her.

It’s funny though, we hear all the time on this board that even humanities majors and social science majors are actively recruited on campus and can waltz right into $90K jobs.

Which one is it?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She's not tenured. I think tenured profs make far more than $78k.

She'll probably end up adjunk. Don't be rushing to marry her just yet.

I'm sorry, I misspoke and missed her saying, "Where I am now is the Midwest, a newly tenured professor at a Big Ten school."

I read her 2017 salary and assumed she couldn't be tenured. But she's newly minted. She's living a really charmed life. This piece is both humble bragging and delusional.

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Her pic and her title as ethnics studies prof don't match, unless she's trying hard to live up to the stereotype.