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Re: Huge Decision
« Reply #15 on: October 24, 2007, 02:15:02 pm »
Quote from: jldunston on October 24, 2007, 01:48:29 pm
Go back to HSC.  If you can't get a good education at a supposedly prestigious college, the degree isn't worth the paper it's printed on. 


You can get a good education at any college, if you look for it. You can also get a lousy education at any college, no matter how famous. It's more about you and how you use the resources than it is about the name brand.

Dammit, didn't I once link to a story about a study that found that people who'd had a choice between two colleges and chose the less famous one, did just as well later on in life?  It was in the newspaper in the last year or two. I don't have time right now to figure out how to search for it but I'm sure I remember we talked about this.
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Re: Huge Decision
« Reply #16 on: October 24, 2007, 05:08:31 pm »
Quote from: pmcd9 on October 24, 2007, 05:04:24 am
Dude, you need to stick it out at A-CAP.  You do not want to be the dude that graduates from HSU.  That is just crass.

Paul, you've really changed:
http://touamb.com/index.php/topic,2758.msg63476.html#msg63476

I searched my butt off and found that I had referred to that study I mentioned in that thread but idiotically didn't link to it, and now I can't find it. But seriously, it exists.
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Re: Huge Decision
« Reply #17 on: October 24, 2007, 08:01:34 pm »
I just got pwnd or however you spell that.

Yes Wombat, I was being extremely facitious.  Since the answer to A-CAP's question was so obvious I thought I would provide the only contrary opinion.

Nice Cortjstring there
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Re: Huge Decision
« Reply #18 on: October 24, 2007, 08:01:56 pm »
There was another study where people who went to Ivy League schools got better jobs or something?  But we decided that the same connections that got them to Ivy League schools got them their jobs?
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Re: Huge Decision
« Reply #19 on: October 24, 2007, 08:11:41 pm »
Well, the point of the study that I can't find was that if you are the kind of person who gets into an Ivy League school, it doesn't matter whether you actually go to the school. If you turn down the Ivy League and go to some other school, you will have the same kind of life as if you had actually gone.  Because you both get into the school and get the jobs etc later because of the kind of person you are.  The cause and effect relationship is between you and success, not between the school and success. 




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Re: Huge Decision
« Reply #20 on: October 25, 2007, 01:26:52 pm »
Do it. I am so happy at my not-top-notch school, where I get to be super-rad and stand out.
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Re: Huge Decision
« Reply #21 on: October 25, 2007, 09:32:57 pm »
Belatedly: yeah, transfer back. It is not worth spending a year somewhere that sucks.
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« Reply #22 on: October 26, 2007, 01:48:14 am »
I spent a miserable three semesters at a school where my entire family had the "Stick it out" advice. After wanting to kill myself, I finally manned up, transferred... and the quality of my life improved 1,000%. DO IT, arachnocapitalist. Transfer back to the better school. You will be so much happier.
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Re: Huge Decision
« Reply #23 on: October 26, 2007, 03:10:15 am »
Linnea's coming up for air! 
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Re: Huge Decision
« Reply #24 on: October 26, 2007, 07:53:42 pm »
Be like Mr. Rogers!
http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/5943

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10. He was an Ivy League Dropout. Rogers moved from Dartmouth to Rollins College to pursue his studies in music.
I mean, not that A-CAP is Ivy League, but, you know. Similar stature and all that.
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Re: Huge Decision
« Reply #25 on: November 09, 2007, 04:21:33 am »
Quote from: A-CAP on November 09, 2007, 03:19:47 am
"It has been three semesters since I left Hampden-Sydney for New York University, and I have learned at least one thing: How to admit when I've made a mistake"... and so goes my essay on my application for readmission. I am doing this, I am all up in it. Thanks for your advice everyone. Ive since been day dreaming about returning to The Hill and ive decided i wont tell anyone there if I get in. Id rather they find out by finding me taking beer from their fridge on move-in day.

Fuck yes, dude. Glad to hear it. Good on ya for making the tough call and going back. You will be much happier.
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Re: Huge Decision
« Reply #26 on: November 09, 2007, 04:42:42 am »
Congrats, Ennewhy.

Sounds like you made the right decision.
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Re: Huge Decision
« Reply #27 on: November 09, 2007, 04:50:04 am »
Sounds like a good plan, way to actually enjoy your studies man.
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