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#31
07-02-2007, 03:41 AM
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Re: I feel I am better than 75+% of the student population
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[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] huge beat if you're only smarter than 75% [/ QUOTE ] QFT. [/ QUOTE ] You're right. I'm going to start advising Harvard bound kids to go to State U. instead so that they'll be smarter than 95% of their classmates (brag) instead of merely 50% (huge beat, apparently). [/ QUOTE ] lol, obv what I was implying. total student population... using just the school population is pointless. 
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#32
07-02-2007, 04:23 AM
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Re: I feel I am better than 75+% of the student population
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[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] huge beat if you're only smarter than 75% [/ QUOTE ] QFT. [/ QUOTE ] You're right. I'm going to start advising Harvard bound kids to go to State U. instead so that they'll be smarter than 95% of their classmates (brag) instead of merely 50% (huge beat, apparently). [/ QUOTE ] i feel sorry for you if you think the median Harvard student is more intelligent than 95% of the students at state universities.
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#33
07-02-2007, 04:26 AM
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Re: I feel I am better than 75+% of the student population
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[ QUOTE ] OTOH, these people you feel that are "lower" than you really don't mean much in the grand scheme of things b/c you will realize one day that in college everyone is stupid--you, the pre-meds, the liberal art morons...everyone. [/ QUOTE ] I can definitly see the truth in that. I guess what I'm mainly basing my "allegations" on is thought process. I was going with a BA friend of mine to go out for the night. We get to his car, hop in and he tries to start it, and it won't start. He keeps trying to no avail. He sits there with this stunned look on his face and has no idea what to do. Thats the kind of [censored] I'm talking about. Most of "those" people have no logical thinking process. They need someone to tell them what to do, when to do it, and how to do it. My friend should have assessed what was wrong, tried to determine what was causing the problem and act accordingly. [/ QUOTE ] I don't know [censored] about cars, so I'd be pretty lost too. What do you expect someone to do who doesn't know jack about them? In your friend's situation, I'd def ask if anyone in the car knew something about cars, and if not I'd call someone that did. I'm sure your friend "assessed" that his engine wasn't working, but how is he supposed to fix that?
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#34
07-02-2007, 04:32 AM
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Re: I feel I am better than 75+% of the student population
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You are REALLY not helping your cause at all in this thread. You talked about a guy with a "respectable" course of study. What exactly are the respectable courses of study, sir? I'm set to graduate with two bachelor's degrees in December, and I'm looking into grad school within the next 3-5 years. I would like your approval for grad school as I am positive you would not respect my two majors in undergrad. Or I could change now and start over. Or I could be glad I don't have "friends" like you. [/ QUOTE ] Well, let me know the specifics and I will let you know if I approve. I'm not a mind reader ya know.
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#35
07-02-2007, 04:34 AM
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I don't know [censored] about cars, so I'd be pretty lost too. What do you expect someone to do who doesn't know jack about them? In your friend's situation, I'd def ask if anyone in the car knew something about cars, and if not I'd call someone that did. I'm sure your friend "assessed" that his engine wasn't working, but how is he supposed to fix that? [/ QUOTE ] BWAHAHA....good christ..LOLOL
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#36
07-02-2007, 04:34 AM
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Re: I feel I am better than 75+% of the student population
Let me guess, you're one of countless engineers who have to take a writing course or read something and extract meaning from it and write a coherent work, can't do it, then go, "Dude who cares I'm just not interested in that when am I ever going to have to know that?" Even if this isn't true, you see how easy it is for any major to look down on another?
FWIW, I know enough people who have gotten A's in all kinds of math, science, and engineering courses, myself included for some of those disciplines, and graduate with very good gpa's to know that if you are averaging a C+, especially at the school you are, that you are most likely not smarter than 75% of the population there.
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#37
07-02-2007, 04:35 AM
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[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] No, you do. Whether you are or not, I don't know. But you certainly sound like a douche - take it from someone who is listening. [/ QUOTE ] Remember, this was intended to be an OOT thread, so I wouldn't look too far into it. I do feel this way in some sense, but I would never voice it to someone in real life. I understand it is a very conceded POV, hence posting it in OOT. BTW, I'd consider myself a very likeable person. [/ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] Subject: Re: I feel I am better than 75+% of the student population [/ QUOTE ] DOES NOT COMPUTE [/ QUOTE ] Meh, you just don't get it. LOL, I give up.
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#38
07-02-2007, 04:38 AM
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Re: I feel I am better than 75+% of the student population
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Let me guess, you're one of countless engineers who have to take a writing course or read something and extract meaning from it and write a coherent work, can't do it, then go, "Dude who cares I'm just not interested in that when am I ever going to have to know that?" [/ QUOTE ] Oh yes, we say that kinda stuff all the time. I can see COUNTLESS applications of all the abstract mathematics we use. I can see there is really a war between courses of study here. Sparked a good debate.
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#39
07-02-2007, 04:49 AM
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Re: I feel I am better than 75+% of the student population
i would just like to chime in and say that engineering degrees are kind of the lazy way out at most schools (my school at least imo). the real analytical majors (math, physics, philosophy, particularly if your school has a good logic program) are much better for an undergrad degree. if you want to pursue engineering, get a phd or masters in that.
as an undergraduate, you shouldn't major in something that is a job title first and a discipline second.ie take economics rather than something like accounting, physics rather than engineering, etc. i think a degree in physics gives you a better overall understanding physics, math, and engineering than engineering does. at the undergraduate level at least. this might just be my bias because i am a math major though.
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07-02-2007, 04:54 AM
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Re: I feel I am better than 75+% of the student population
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i would just like to chime in and say that engineering degrees are kind of the lazy way out at most schools (my school at least imo). the real analytical majors (math, physics, philosophy, particularly if your school has a good logic program) are much better for an undergrad degree. if you want to pursue engineering, get a phd or masters in that. as an undergraduate, you shouldn't major in something that is a job title first and a discipline second.ie take economics rather than something like accounting, physics rather than engineering, etc. i think a degree in physics gives you a better overall understanding physics, math, and engineering than engineering does. at the undergraduate level at least. this might just be my bias because i am a math major though. [/ QUOTE ] What makes you think this? I do plan on going to grad school after I graduate, but not for probably 2-3 years after. One of the main reason I picked M.E. was the assurance of job immediately after graduation. I won't be waiting around job hunting for a very long time, if at all. How hard was it for you to find a job after graduation? EDIT: What school do you go to?
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