Colby College

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Lots of wealthy and entitled kids. Easy transition from private school. Worse location than Bowdoin or Bates.

You are clearly someone who has never been to Lewiston or Waterville.

I know all three places and here’s the town/location and associated student experience quality, in order of magnitude:

Bowdoin







Bates


Colby

As a recruiter for a firm that recruits from all three, I can assure you we consider them all equal, but we have noticed that the Colby kids have better communication skills than the others. Financial Services sector.

What are you prattling on about? This is about the respective towns and their impact on student life, not the quality of the schools in the eyes of yet another, “speaking for the industry” finance hack. Show better communication skills.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lots of wealthy and entitled kids. Easy transition from private school. Worse location than Bowdoin or Bates.

You are clearly someone who has never been to Lewiston or Waterville.

I know all three places and here’s the town/location and associated student experience quality, in order of magnitude:

Bowdoin







Bates


Colby

As a recruiter for a firm that recruits from all three, I can assure you we consider them all equal, but we have noticed that the Colby kids have better communication skills than the others. Financial Services sector.

What are you prattling on about? This is about the respective towns and their impact on student life, not the quality of the schools in the eyes of yet another, “speaking for the industry” finance hack. Show better communication skills.

DP here. What you claim is completely inconsistent with the OP, who simply said "Daughter loves the school and is hoping to play lacrosse there. Any insights?". PP appears to have answered relevant to that post. You can disagree with him, but try to not be misleading or dishonest. And maybe less rude also.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lots of wealthy and entitled kids. Easy transition from private school. Worse location than Bowdoin or Bates.

You are clearly someone who has never been to Lewiston or Waterville.

I know all three places and here’s the town/location and associated student experience quality, in order of magnitude:

Bowdoin







Bates


Colby

As a recruiter for a firm that recruits from all three, I can assure you we consider them all equal, but we have noticed that the Colby kids have better communication skills than the others. Financial Services sector.

What are you prattling on about? This is about the respective towns and their impact on student life, not the quality of the schools in the eyes of yet another, “speaking for the industry” finance hack. Show better communication skills.

DP here. What you claim is completely inconsistent with the OP, who simply said "Daughter loves the school and is hoping to play lacrosse there. Any insights?". PP appears to have answered relevant to that post. You can disagree with him, but try to not be misleading or dishonest. And maybe less rude also.

It is “rude” to accuse someone of being “dishonest.” And, I have no idea what my dishonest “claim” was about. The quality of Waterville as a college town? This is especially why, when people call out others for “dishonesty,” they should never do so in general, unspecified terms. But I have a feeling — or is it a hope? — that your mother already taught you that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lots of wealthy and entitled kids. Easy transition from private school. Worse location than Bowdoin or Bates.

You are clearly someone who has never been to Lewiston or Waterville.

I know all three places and here’s the town/location and associated student experience quality, in order of magnitude:

Bowdoin







Bates


Colby

As a recruiter for a firm that recruits from all three, I can assure you we consider them all equal, but we have noticed that the Colby kids have better communication skills than the others. Financial Services sector.

What are you prattling on about? This is about the respective towns and their impact on student life, not the quality of the schools in the eyes of yet another, “speaking for the industry” finance hack. Show better communication skills.

DP here. What you claim is completely inconsistent with the OP, who simply said "Daughter loves the school and is hoping to play lacrosse there. Any insights?". PP appears to have answered relevant to that post. You can disagree with him, but try to not be misleading or dishonest. And maybe less rude also.

It is “rude” to accuse someone of being “dishonest.” And, I have no idea what my dishonest “claim” was about. The quality of Waterville as a college town? This is especially why, when people call out others for “dishonesty,” they should never do so in general, unspecified terms. But I have a feeling — or is it a hope? — that your mother already taught you that.

But you were dishonest. You claimed the PP was posting off topic, when clearly they were not. OP does not mention Waterville in any way.

Hopefully that is an explicit enough description of your dishonesty in your post. And I'll leave your mother out of this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lots of wealthy and entitled kids. Easy transition from private school. Worse location than Bowdoin or Bates.

You are clearly someone who has never been to Lewiston or Waterville.

I know all three places and here’s the town/location and associated student experience quality, in order of magnitude:

Bowdoin







Bates


Colby

As a recruiter for a firm that recruits from all three, I can assure you we consider them all equal, but we have noticed that the Colby kids have better communication skills than the others. Financial Services sector.

What are you prattling on about? This is about the respective towns and their impact on student life, not the quality of the schools in the eyes of yet another, “speaking for the industry” finance hack. Show better communication skills.

DP here. What you claim is completely inconsistent with the OP, who simply said "Daughter loves the school and is hoping to play lacrosse there. Any insights?". PP appears to have answered relevant to that post. You can disagree with him, but try to not be misleading or dishonest. And maybe less rude also.

It is “rude” to accuse someone of being “dishonest.” And, I have no idea what my dishonest “claim” was about. The quality of Waterville as a college town? This is especially why, when people call out others for “dishonesty,” they should never do so in general, unspecified terms. But I have a feeling — or is it a hope? — that your mother already taught you that.

But you were dishonest. You claimed the PP was posting off topic, when clearly they were not. OP does not mention Waterville in any way.

Hopefully that is an explicit enough description of your dishonesty in your post. And I'll leave your mother out of this.

I would not presume to know my intentions, let alone persist in classifying them as “dishonest.” (The word you are looking for is “disingenuous,” now that I know what you were/are referring to; it would have avoided confusion.)

I thought PP intended to reply to my post because, well, it was a reply to my post. It seemed “clear” to me that PP thought my post was ranking the schools academically — and his response was perfectly consistent with that interpretation. It also seemed “clear” to me that he was responding to a post without having read it carefully, which we all know happens frequently on DCUM. The delicious irony of not reading something carefully, while at the same time touting “communication skills,” in my mind merited a — as you call it — “rude” response.

Now, whether my thinking was correct in “reality” I don’t know; it does not matter at this point. The point is that my thinking that PP had meant to reply to my post was a reasonable interpretation for me to make at the time. It was not at all disingenuous or, as you call it, “dishonest.”

As to your point that Waterville is not relevant to an OP inquiry about Colby College, I’m gobsmacked. Either you have not read the thread, are yourself being disingenuous for purposes of making a rhetorical point, or you really don’t know where Colby College is located. Unlike you, I will not assume you are being disingenuous, so I will let you in on a well-kept secret: Colby is in Waterville.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lots of wealthy and entitled kids. Easy transition from private school. Worse location than Bowdoin or Bates.

You are clearly someone who has never been to Lewiston or Waterville.

I know all three places and here’s the town/location and associated student experience quality, in order of magnitude:

Bowdoin







Bates


Colby

As a recruiter for a firm that recruits from all three, I can assure you we consider them all equal, but we have noticed that the Colby kids have better communication skills than the others. Financial Services sector.

What are you prattling on about? This is about the respective towns and their impact on student life, not the quality of the schools in the eyes of yet another, “speaking for the industry” finance hack. Show better communication skills.

DP here. What you claim is completely inconsistent with the OP, who simply said "Daughter loves the school and is hoping to play lacrosse there. Any insights?". PP appears to have answered relevant to that post. You can disagree with him, but try to not be misleading or dishonest. And maybe less rude also.

It is “rude” to accuse someone of being “dishonest.” And, I have no idea what my dishonest “claim” was about. The quality of Waterville as a college town? This is especially why, when people call out others for “dishonesty,” they should never do so in general, unspecified terms. But I have a feeling — or is it a hope? — that your mother already taught you that.

But you were dishonest. You claimed the PP was posting off topic, when clearly they were not. OP does not mention Waterville in any way.

Hopefully that is an explicit enough description of your dishonesty in your post. And I'll leave your mother out of this.

I would not presume to know my intentions, let alone persist in classifying them as “dishonest.” (The word you are looking for is “disingenuous,” now that I know what you were/are referring to; it would have avoided confusion.)

I thought PP intended to reply to my post because, well, it was a reply to my post. It seemed “clear” to me that PP thought my post was ranking the schools academically — and his response was perfectly consistent with that interpretation. It also seemed “clear” to me that he was responding to a post without having read it carefully, which we all know happens frequently on DCUM. The delicious irony of not reading something carefully, while at the same time touting “communication skills,” in my mind merited a — as you call it — “rude” response.

Now, whether my thinking was correct in “reality” I don’t know; it does not matter at this point. The point is that my thinking that PP had meant to reply to my post was a reasonable interpretation for me to make at the time. It was not at all disingenuous or, as you call it, “dishonest.”

As to your point that Waterville is not relevant to an OP inquiry about Colby College, I’m gobsmacked. Either you have not read the thread, are yourself being disingenuous for purposes of making a rhetorical point, or you really don’t know where Colby College is located. Unlike you, I will not assume you are being disingenuous, so I will let you in on a well-kept secret: Colby is in Waterville.

See, you are being dishonest again. Or maybe you just can't read well, or don't want to. Here are some more examples of your dishonesty:

As to your point that Waterville is not relevant to an OP inquiry about Colby College, I’m gobsmacked.

I did not say that anywhere. See what I mean by dishonest? You attacked another poster for his post about Colby by saying it wasn't relevant to a discussion of geographic location, and I pointed out that the OP just asked about Colby, not specifically about location. You specifically said "This is about the respective towns and their impact on student life, not the quality of the schools in the eyes of yet another" and that was just not true. Both points are relevant.

I would not presume to know my intentions, let alone persist in classifying them as “dishonest.” (The word you are looking for is “disingenuous,” now that I know what you were/are referring to; it would have avoided confusion.)

No, I meant dishonest, as in you intended to mislead readers about the thread.

Now, whether my thinking was correct in “reality” I don’t know; it does not matter at this point.

Gosh you sure typed a lot of words for something that you think doesn't matter.

The delicious irony of not reading something carefully, while at the same time touting “communication skills,” in my mind merited a — as you call it — “rude” response.

That is distasteful to me, and unnecessary, and unhelpful. I understand you clearly enjoy it, but prefer to dish it out instead of taking same.

In addition, PP read the OP's post just fine, and responded with his opinion. I remain astounded where the "delicious irony" is and why rudeness was necessary and enjoyable.