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03-05-2008, 10:36 PM
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And like Cole said, school is what you make of it. Same goes for life and everything else.
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Don't get me wrong, I can learn from any situation. working at Macdonald's taught me how a production line works and how to be efficient and cut time out of a process. I also learned how to hustle.
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03-05-2008, 10:37 PM
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On what basis?
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03-05-2008, 10:37 PM
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I don't think I said that at all.
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03-05-2008, 10:50 PM
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For me, at least, I've realized that the real value of going to school lies not in classes and grades, but in the opportunities to network with my peers, seek advice from professors, and make use of other resources around school.
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what you're talking about are the periphery benefits as opposed to the raison d'ętre. I should have been more specific. I just find it hard to justify my tuition costs when I'm basically sitting through one boring power point presentation after another, when I would rather go to the business section at Chapters and read that. |
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03-05-2008, 10:51 PM
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On what basis?
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because that's a dumb reason to be prejudiced against someone? |
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03-05-2008, 10:52 PM
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what you're talking about are the periphery benefits as opposed to the raison d'ętre. I should have been more specific. I just find it hard to justify my tuition costs when I'm basically sitting through one boring power point presentation after another, when I would rather go to the business section at Chapters and read that.
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Just to reiterate the opinions of others, have you considered that you might get what you put into it?
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03-05-2008, 10:54 PM
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Just to reiterate the opinions of others, have you considered that you might get what you put into it?
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i have a 3.8 GPA if that answers your question. |
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because that's a dumb reason to be prejudiced against someone?
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Because it's "dumb?" Well, that doesn't sound like a very "well-reasoned" or convincing argument at all. That's just me. Maybe it is a compelling argument to others.
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03-05-2008, 11:02 PM
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Because it's "dumb?" Well, that doesn't sound like a very "well-reasoned" or convincing argument at all. That's just me. Maybe it is a compelling argument to others.
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he just said that he discriminated not on skill set but on 'parity', which makes me assume he's more about keeping appearances than anything. |
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03-05-2008, 11:23 PM
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More about keeping appearances, or more about allocating resources?
An assumption is merely a tradoff between knowledge and resources. When one makes an assumption, he merely decides that additional knowledge is less valuable than the resources lost by gaining it.
I assume that Akula is a busy guy. To him, a degree is a very quick and inexpensive indication of one's general level of knowledge. While he could determine whether one without a degree has the same level of knowledge, it would be cost him significantly more resources (time, money, thought, etc.). As a result, if he seeks an individual with a given level of knowledge, it makes sense that the least expensive, and thus preferable, way to find such individual would be to discriminate just as he does.
Makes sense to me.
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03-05-2008, 11:30 PM
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More about keeping appearances, or more about allocating resources?
An assumption is merely a tradoff between knowledge and resources. When one makes an assumption, he merely decides that additional knowledge is less valuable than the resources lost by gaining it.
I assume that Akula is a busy guy. To him, a degree is a very quick and inexpensive indication of one's general level of knowledge. While he could determine whether one without a degree has the same level of knowledge, it would be cost him significantly more resources (time, money, thought, etc.). As a result, if he seeks an individual with a given level of knowledge, it makes sense that the least expensive, and thus preferable, way to find such individual would be to discriminate just as he does.
Makes sense to me.
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