Re:Not being stupid
by weegee on Friday August 08, 2008 @12:55PM
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people who have degrees aren't stupid or smart, they are people who have degrees. a degree is a piece of paper. it means you did stuff and someone thought you did it well enough for them so they handed you the piece of paper. in the grand scheme of things, it's just a piece of paper. get over it, you're not smart or stupid because of the piece of paper, it's just a piece of paper! and so on.
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Re:Not being stupid
by helveticaman on Friday August 08, 2008 @01:15PM
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Slow down. Caltech has a lot of intellectual self-respect. Getting into Caltech is hard. Getting out of Caltech is also hard. You need brains. Lots of cc of brains.
"It's just a piece of paper."? Uh-uh. Not from Caltech. It's as much a piece of paper as a cat-scan result that says your brain is big, or a check for a million dollars. In this case, the words on the piece of paper mean something.
There's a minimum bar for getting into Caltech, and an even higher minimum bar for graduating from there. We're talking about lower bounds here. Saying "a degree is a piece of paper" entirely misses the point.
Re:Not being stupid
by jcromartie on Friday August 08, 2008 @01:20PM
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The degree isn't the point. The point is that he accomplished something. You could substitute a lot of other things for your own personal version of the story.