Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:So school snob, if someone saved up their meager earnings in a third world country to immigrate to the U.S., to work a minimum wage job to put herself through a community college to become a nurse, then what? If they don't have guidance, upbringing or resources as you did, what is the judgment you make on them? that they are less than you? bad people? insignificant pebbles in your shoe?
Is it actually fun for you and your friends to gossip about how inflated your egos are and how oh-so-special you must be compared to the people of this earth?
No, we don't spend our time gossiping about our inflated egos. I love how this thread has turned from "what are you (secretly) judgmental about" to "HOW DARE YOU BE JUDGMENTAL"? To all the posters who think they have friends that went to top schools and aren't arrogant about it, you're kidding yourselves. We might not be openly arrogant (I am certainly not openly arrogant in my every day life, contrary to the amusing indignation expressed here), but you can be sure we all know we went to good schools and are pretty darn aware of others that did/ did not. And even your nicest, kindest "top school" friends fit this bill. Do I consider someone with less resources who goes to nursing school a "pebble in my shoe"? Of course not. You're taking my comments to an extreme I never intended them to go.
Nevertheless, to those posters who think it's (a) insecurity or (b) equivalent to buying a nice car to "show off" -- there must be an awful lot of insecure people out there because the acceptance rates to the schools I went to are pretty darn low, which means tons of people want the same insecurity I have; oh, and that education secured me a pretty nice car, so that makes me doubly insecure (but in a very nice ride).