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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At Columbia you're going to become friends with peers who will become very successful. At UVA you're going to meet a bunch of future SAHM, nurses, teachers, salesman, lawyers. Different levels.[/quote]

1.   I don't believe this. "Very successful" people come from all kinds of schools.

But, even if true..

2.  This seems to assume that everyone should want to be the kind of "very successful" to which an Ivy league school supposedly provides some magic gate.  I'm sure it is shocking to the "Ivy league or bust" folks but success looks different to different people.  I know "very successful" teachers, nurses, sales people etc.  They love their work, are very good at it, and can support themselves.  To me that is what 'very successful' looks like.[/quote]

I'm sorry but being a nurse is a tough, thankless, poorly paid job. Its not successful.[/quote]

Wow. So, by your definition, nurses are "failures"?

Success for you is apparently all about money and status. You can't take it with you. A humble nurse can look back at her (or his) life and know that she did honest work that directly helped countless people. That's something she has over an IB bro or biglaw bigshot.[/quote]

I didn't say they were failures, I said they were not "successful" and they are not in any sense. Its not a job about success, its about tolerance and fortitude, which they have and its about helping others, endlessly. That is not the definition of "success". The definition of success is according to all dictionaries, inclusive of financial prosperity and material and public gain. I didn't write the dictionary but at least I understand the language I'm using. You're just not well educated enough to know the difference.[/quote]

When you put your foot in your mouth, just acknowledge it and move on. Trying to dig yourself out via sophomoric tap dancing, and then asserting that we are "not educated enough" to understand your point is just makes it worse for you.[/quote]

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