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Re:What is it like to be poor at an Ivy League school? (2015) by whorleater on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @02:59PM (#13485407)
> I did miss out on something that I wish I would have been told more explicitly: university is not just about an education, it is about networking. I got zero networking done. I got the degree and got out. Because of my lack of networking, I believe my career was slower to build.

Strange, when did you go to college? When I first arrived in college in 2012 the commonly held knowledge among students was that "while the education you'll learn here is important, but the chance you have to grow in the 4 years as a person and network with others is priority #1"

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Re:What is it like to be poor at an Ivy League school? (2015) by sethammons on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @04:27PM (#13486315)
I started way back in 2001 :) I'm sure they mentioned something about networking, but I think it may not have been as explicitly told to me as I required at the time.
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Re:What is it like to be poor at an Ivy League school? (2015) by IThoughtYouGNU on Thursday January 26, 2017 @02:14PM (#13494316)
I started college in 2010 and I didn't understand this. (Middle class school district in the US). I expected to get all of that from my actual jobs, and in the end I did.
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