Posted on 08/29/2025 9:21:21 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
A family that pays that much for the indoctrination damn well expects A grades from the professional indoctrinators.
I got 2.5 ???
We have reached peak “higher education.”
Such a nice gesture, and it will help them get into medical school, so there’s that.
Another rigorous academic
https://youtu.be/z1PIiKUWDoc?si=wpHRCZze3DtInfML
If I owned a company, you would find a sign on my front door: “Harvard graduates need not apply.”
If I was in a hiring/firing position and a resume from a Harvard graduate ever came across my desk, the first and last glance I would take of it would be as it landed in the garbage can with a resounding thud.
“Make the challenges harder and the best students will thrive.”
The purpose of colleges should be to provide students with useful knowledge and the skills to perform useful things.
Stress prevents memorization.
“Community Organizer”
Perhaps it is because I went to Christian universities.
There was no grade inflation there!
What the professors may do was tutor
you if their normal classes were
not getting through to you and you asked for help.
I was working 50 hour weeks, and My Linear Algebra
professor had me in his office doing math on his white board and instructing me as I demonstrated my lack of understanding.
His great granddaughter was under his desk playing with toys as he ate his lunch.
I earned a “C” in that class.
I’d bet I have remembered more Linear Algebra
than most other engineers.
Thanks. Forgot so much about that movie. Will to watch that and Easy Money again. Can’t get too much of Rodney Dangerfield.
At least at Community College they make you work and learn.Harvard has no pride. Doesn’t want to put in the work just give an A for nothing and no work.
I’ve always wanted me one of those Harvard degrees.
The creation of elite clubs is interesting. High achievers need challenge and will create it. I wonder how the graduates can use that’s their advantage when applying for jobs, though. Saying “I was in the finance club” wouldn’t help unless prospective employers knew of its exclusivity.
“If I was in a hiring/firing position and a resume from a Harvard graduate ever came across my desk, the first and last glance I would take of it would be as it landed in the garbage can with a resounding thud.”
I’m happy to chat with people, time permitting.
My father sent me to public school because he felt it was important to encounter a broad spectrum of people so I could learn to judge people.
My father was a manager, and the most important part of his job was selecting people.
I sent my son and his then-fiancée Dangerfield’s wonderful rendition of “Faniculee fanicula” from Easy Money and offered to replicate it at their reception.
They declined
Most people don’t understand the elitism of these institutions. They tell the students “you are already special because you are here”. Grades are meaningless. They live on a diet of name dropping and self promotion. It’s quite sickening.
To each their own, I guess.
“We attended a college that made it possible for us to attend regardless of our lack of means, that created jobs for us, so that we could eat and sleep, and that allowed us to defer our tuition and trusted that they could get paid some day long after we had gone. And the professors, God bless them, on this campus, the most dedicated group of men and women whom I have ever known, went long months without drawing any pay. Sometimes the college, with a donation of a little money or produce from a farm, would buy groceries and dole them out to the teachers to at least try and provide them with food.”
https://www.bestgraduationspeeches.com/ronald-reagan-speech-eureka-college-transcript-quotes-video/
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