Ask me about being Valedictorian

[Anacardo]

Based on the writing and opinions of many of my 'hard' science professors, TAs and student peers, I'd say that many of them couldn't even tell you what 'succeeding' in a liberal arts program even meant.

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Did you know this will be the high point of your life and accomplishments?

Signed,
Another Valedictorian with a Ph.D.

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LOL. I remember my high school valedictorian couldn't make it through one semester of college. I was surprised to hear that that's not actually as bizarrely rare as I had thought. Big transition, and some can't handle not being locked into the top with their support system all around them. I wonder how often that happens regarding the other valedictorian transition, from college to the working world. The tragic stories certainly could be interesting stuff.

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Since you have a good sense of humor, I will ask some real questions.

How old are you?
Why did you take a non-traditional route to college?
What other things did you do while not in school?
What changed your mind to return to school?
What school are you graduating from?
Where are you going to to grad. school?
Where and what do you want to teach after grad. school?

Also, nice job going back and doing so well. I started going to college P/T @ twenty-five and finished ten-years later. IMO, not as easy to do when you are older and have a full life outside of school.

GL

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Very much so. But often the grades are much better.

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Are you proud of getting a mediocre GPA in a major that requires little intelligence and has no practical value in the real world?

I know several engineers with 3.9X GPAs. Maintaining a 3.9+ in a tough major such as engineering is quite an impressive feat. Bragging about your grades in english is analgous to boasting about winning a race in the special olympics.

you picked the wrong place to post a reprehensible brag thread.

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I was planning to be a bit of an [censored] in this thread, but looks like I've long since been beaten to it. And how. You're still like one of the top five worst posters ever, ben.

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Agreed.

[tinin]

If you're so good at skools/engrish, how come you used "insure" where "ensure" belonged in OP?

[LifetimeLoser77]

I was not even close to being class valedictorian.
On the other hand I didn't choose a Major that tested how well you can read books.

[2/325Falcon]

OP,

Are there any repercussions for starting a bad "Ask Me" thread in OOT and not responding to the questions posted in that thread?

[Anacardo]

Blarg,

HS Valedictorians often cheat their asses off. Mine did. So did the Valedictorian of the class before mine.

[Jeff W]

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I am concluding a degree in English looking to pursue my Phd in literary studies in order to become a professor. Ask me some questions as to how I did it, or some general questions about school or how I rock.

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Without looking it up: What is the derivative of x squared?

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I know several engineers with 3.9X GPAs. Maintaining a 3.9+ in a tough major such as engineering is quite an impressive feat. Bragging about your grades in english is analgous to boasting about winning a race in the special olympics.


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Way too harsh. Most of these engineers would be not be near the top of their class if they had majored in English or literature of any type. And I'm assuming native speakers.

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I know a lot of engineers that were bored in English class. I know I slept through mine. So I have to agree with this one but not for the reasons you assume. Forcing an Engineer to major in English is like putting a former Marine that served in Iraq and is now playing college football in a balley dance class. It just doesn't work.

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You mean ballet, or belly?

If you mean skill sets are different, you're correct of course. If you mean that having one skill set guarantees or even implies having another, you're not.

Having poor to mediocre language skills is extremely common -- no less so among people with notable mathematical ability. It works the same way if you flip it around -- poor mathematical ability is very common among people with very good language skills.

The bias on this board, given its nature as a poker site, leans heavily toward celebrating mathematical ability, and its heroes tend to be people who are great at poker, which certainly leans more toward math than language. When asked the values of one skill set versus another, the self-selected forum members here are usually pretty darn happy to vote for themselves and not just affirm some sort of primacy for and celebrate their own skill sets, but go to war against the talents they may not have and therefore find necessary to denigrate. Egos are surely fragile things, and maybe it's easier over all just to not take chances on them.

In other words, I think most football players would fail miserably as either ballet or belly dancers.