Late Night Shots update

It's been several days now since I posted anything particularly hilarious from the Forum at Late Night Shots. So as a bit of lazy Sunday blogging here's something. Shirley Tilghman wants to know what's up with all the stupid people:

College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: Shirley Tilghman on 11-30-2006 4:18 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

I have recently noticed that a lot of the DC social scene “heavy hitters” went to very bad colleges. How does membership in the capital club, the young and the guest list, etc. look upon this problem?

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: well... on 11-30-2006 4:19 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

…as someone who went to a terrible undergrad and better graduate school, it quite simply is because people who go to better schools are, more or less, complete social retards.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: Shirley Tilghman on 11-30-2006 4:21 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

Yeah, all those Vandy/UNC/Georgetown/Princeton grads are complete social retards.

Next!

It goes on from there, as you'll see below the fold. This is a totally odd accounting of things given that DC is the city with the highest average IQ in the country. Why just last night I heard a "heavy hitter" (female) utter the following witticism: "I don't care how great Liberace is, I have to piss like whoa." I think she must be on LNS.

Remember. If you want an add, you must leave me comment requesting as much. That's the deal.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: or on 11-30-2006 4:21 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

they don’t care how smart the members are, it is more about how much money their family has

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: Will T. Horn VII on 11-30-2006 4:24 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

If you have the money and the connections, you can get your kid in about anywhere or at least a school with a little tradition. Some of these schools are a joke.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: well... on 11-30-2006 4:25 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

…oh, by not terrible colleges i assumed you were talking only about Princeton/Harvard/Yale/Stanford. 

its not true of everyone who goes there, but a more competitive academic environment certainly breeds more social awkwardness. 

and are we really putting Vandy and UNC on the same plane as Gtown and Princeton? 

i mean, i don’t compare my Mortons steaks to McDonalds, but this is your post…

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: Ken Noisewater, MD on 11-30-2006 4:26 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

It’s like when interviewing people for entry level admin or LA jobs in the past, I always eliminate anyone who had above a 3.5 or so…unless they went to a party school with crappy academics…

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: heel on 11-30-2006 4:27 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

some people would say that UNC is pretty hard to get into out of state

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: in state tuition on 11-30-2006 4:28 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

other people would say that if its that hard, go to a better school if you’re going to pay out of state tuition.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: . on 11-30-2006 4:28 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

And I hear it’s a bitch out of country.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: ?? on 11-30-2006 4:28 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

I’m confused, Vanderbilt, UNC and Gtown are all pretty much on the same level.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: 27516 on 11-30-2006 4:29 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

I got into all three and went to Carolina.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: hmm on 11-30-2006 4:29 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

Let’s not forget UVa, here…

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: Fact Check on 11-30-2006 4:29 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

People who say you can’t drink your face off and still go to a top 25 school clearly aren’t working with much.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: heel on 11-30-2006 4:29 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

ok snob.  some people may not want to go to a private school.  just because it is public, does not mean it isn’t a good school.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: A tarheel born, a tarheel bred, but... on 11-30-2006 4:31 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

UNC isn’t close to being at the same level as Princeton,Duke,Harvard,Yale etc..  It’s a public school for godsakes.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: .... on 11-30-2006 4:31 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

Man sorry those Harvard and Yale grads are something else. They really know how to party.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: Ken Noisewater, MD on 11-30-2006 4:32 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

Public school is for jerks and lesbians.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: Heel on 11-30-2006 4:32 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

No one said we were, but we are a top 30 school with an unusually socially competent student body, similar to Vandy and UVa. Georgetown has a bunch of odd cats, and that “b-frat” is the gayest thing in town.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: wow on 11-30-2006 4:32 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

well my dad makes more money than your dad

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: . on 11-30-2006 4:33 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

You’re all Homo’s.  Stop arguing over “levels,”  It’s Ivy League and not Ivy League.

If it warrants mentioning…Cornell can suck a bag of dicks for their party scene.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: wow on 11-30-2006 4:33 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

well my dad makes more money than your dad

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: Question on 11-30-2006 4:33 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

Roanoke College?  Hampden Sydney?  Salve Regina?  Are we talking ~1000 SATs here?

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: Please on 11-30-2006 4:33 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

Duke and Harvard are aweful. I would rather my kid go somewhere moderately fun over those prisons. Any good school has plenty of academic opportunites.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: what about on 11-30-2006 4:34 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

potted ivy’s?

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: Yanni on 11-30-2006 4:35 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

Question, I agree. I laugh at people who think they’re going anywhere with degrees from there. If they have EXTREMELY good family connections, they might be okay. Otherwise, the whole 900-1000 on the SATs is going to hold them back.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: odds on... on 11-30-2006 4:35 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

I’ll sleep happily on 9 out of 10 Ivy league girls.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: Name isn't all on 11-30-2006 4:36 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

…i must agree with the Duke/Harvard guy. Stanford was the most horrible place on the planet for 1) bars, 2) attractive women, or 3) anything remotely resembling a decent party.

people can do well no matter where they go.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: . on 11-30-2006 4:36 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

I got a 990.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: ugh on 11-30-2006 4:36 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

this argument will never ever win

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: ugh on 11-30-2006 4:37 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

i mean end.  obviously i went to a great college right?

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: My Man Mitch on 11-30-2006 4:37 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

“You’re all Homo’s. Stop arguing over “levels,” It’s Ivy League and not Ivy League.

If it warrants mentioning…Cornell can suck a bag of dicks for their party scene.”

…From the guy who couldn’t get into a top 50 school.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: stupid forum on 11-30-2006 4:38 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

who cares? i went to a decent school and have a better job than a lot of these clowns that went to supposedly better schools, do.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: Erskine Bowles on 11-30-2006 4:39 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

For those of you who are saying that the top schools will ruin you socially, what exactly are you proposing? Seems like UNC, Vandy, UVa would be your solution. But somehow I doubt you went to those schools either b/c grads from those schools generally aren’t so bitter about the Ivy League.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: . on 11-30-2006 4:39 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

Try top 10000.

Perchance “Name isn’t all…” has a point.  and a good one.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: his airness on 11-30-2006 4:39 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

anyone who seriously looks down on any well-off southerner for attending unc-chapel hill instead of some fucking miserable northeastern ivy that we all got into anyway is off his/her rocker.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: stupid on 11-30-2006 4:40 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

you, don’t, know grammar though.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: Ridiculous on 11-30-2006 4:42 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

College is over, move on. No one really cares where you went. But if your not hot - get lost

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: Reality on 11-30-2006 4:43 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

I know college is the end all-be all of life, but if you look at the vast majority of people who are in very high up positions in government and business, they didn’t come out of Roanoke College and Hampden Sydney. The whole “I am cooler than the UNC nerd” just doesn’t hold water.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: . on 11-30-2006 4:44 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

At the expense of taking a literal turn, and therefore forgoing any humor for the rest of this post-what about *gasp* people that worked their asses off, starved a little, and put themselves through college?

Can anyone tell me why we don’t like them?

That’s the only reason I would snub my nose at anyone…

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: ? on 11-30-2006 4:46 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

I have a lot of respect for people who did that. Who said anything about disliking people who paid their way thru college?

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: 2 Many Snobs on 11-30-2006 4:47 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

Your level of education is shining through your post when you compared McDonalds to Vandy & UNC and GTown & Princeton to Morton’s. No offense but Vandy is ranked higher than UNC and Gtown…

Regardless, any school in the top 50 is a great school.

Community College = McDonalds

State Colleges (not counting UNC, UVA, or something similar) = Red Lobster

Top 50 School = Morton’s

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: so... on 11-30-2006 4:47 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

Are you all seriously arguing over the implications your college has on your post-collegiate social life?

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: King Turbo on 11-30-2006 4:48 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

If one has means they should:

A) go to a top prep school

B) matriculate at a top 25 university or attend a lesser known college in hopes of boosting their GPA to attend a top grad school

C) attend grad school at any level

The middling sort, this is a generalization, attend the local day school, then graduate to second tier college to play sports–ie peak on the lax field at age 20, then move to DC and act like a badass as they choke back on their lipper because they really just do it to be cool, not because they are addicted.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: I mean really on 11-30-2006 4:48 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

Some of you are idiots, I wish there were pics next to your posts so when you finally make it my office hoping for a job I can through your ass out.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: Honky Jesus on 11-30-2006 4:49 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

I’m sorry Kirk, we couldn’t all go to Gudger College!

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: No on 11-30-2006 4:49 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

We are wondering how prestige and tangible accomplishments seem to diverge for a period of time in one’s early to late 20’s.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: I mean really on 11-30-2006 4:50 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

Some of you are idiots, I wish there were pics next to your posts so when you finally make it my office hoping for a job I can through your ass out.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: if on 11-30-2006 4:50 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

you went to a top prep school, and didn’t get into a top 25 or good liberal arts school, you should just give up. Top prep schools + connections should get you in anywhere decent if you aren’t a total idiot.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: Hold up now on 11-30-2006 4:52 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

“Regardless, any school in the top 50 is a great school.”

Whoa whoa whoa…..we all know there is a HUGE dropoff after the top 25, maybe top 30.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: hey "i mean really" on 11-30-2006 4:52 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

you are going to “through” my ass out?  what does that even mean?  you’re an idiot!

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: i mean really on 11-30-2006 4:52 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

when i finally make it your office hoping for a job, i will give you one billion dollars if you can show me how you can actually through my ass, as that’s something my ass, along with every other tangible object in the entire history of the world, has never had done to it!

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: at least on 11-30-2006 4:55 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

some of us can get into good schools without our parents pulling strings!

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: Mr. Keating on 11-30-2006 4:56 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

I had a weighted 3.3 at prep school and a 1360 on the sat’s and got in pretty much anywhere I wanted. It’s not difficult.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: Mr. Keating on 11-30-2006 4:56 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

(with no connections, sports, etc)

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: . on 11-30-2006 4:58 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

Obviously we’re all young professionals working on/about the hill and we’re going to run this country some day.

Lord help the little man.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: but on 11-30-2006 5:04 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

“Mr. Keating”

Did you at least pay full tuition?

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: exuse me on 11-30-2006 5:10 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

ALL of us are not working on/about the hill.  thank god

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: oops on 11-30-2006 5:11 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

i mean excuse

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: ... on 11-30-2006 5:13 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

“exuse me” I think he was joking.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: earlier post on 11-30-2006 5:15 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

not going to even bother finishing this posting.. people in capital club coming from money.. not true. simply like to dress preppy and have friends on the hill/in a specific group of friends. lots of dc heavy hitters.. 35+ and supporting only themselves.. obviosly not an issue of where they went to school/making real money.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: Old Boy on 11-30-2006 5:17 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

You know what is lamer than being in the capital club? Sitting around making fun of it. It’s kind of like the people who “hate” Smith Point because they can’t get in the door.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: Hey Old Boy on 11-30-2006 5:18 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

I’m not in the cap club and it’s not my thing, but I completely agree with you.  good point.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: but on 11-30-2006 5:19 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

I’ve never actually tried to get into Smith Point - just aware that it’s vaguely somewhere in Georgetown. Haven’t had much use for the Georgetown bar scene since I graduated from GW.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: old boy on 11-30-2006 5:21 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

not making fun of it.  just saying it has nothing to do with money.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: old boy on 11-30-2006 5:22 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

and anyone can get into sp these days..

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Posted By: I went to on 11-30-2006 5:24 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

#1 small public, #6 public, #30 overall

name it…

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: Answer on 11-30-2006 5:26 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

#6 public, #30 overall? Doesn’t exist.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: jb on 11-30-2006 5:26 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

William & Mary

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: .. on 11-30-2006 5:28 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

william and mary is public?  michigan?

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: public on 11-30-2006 5:31 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

William and Mary it is… but it’s more like William and Gary with all those homos running around.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: Mr. T on 11-30-2006 5:37 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

Private schools breed social ineptitude. They’re for people who didn’t have fun in high school and are looking for even less fun in college. Nowadays, it doesn’t matter where the hell you went, it matters what you do w/ what you’ve got. Most of the Yalies I know do nothing w/ their lives b/c they think the fact that they “went” to an Ivy league school entitles them to handouts. I could have gone to Cornell, but realized how terrible my life would be for 4 years. I pity the fool.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: Oh wow... on 11-30-2006 5:40 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

We’re back to the “you’re better off going to a bad school” ideology.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: Mr. T on 11-30-2006 5:51 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

Where is this “bad school” train of thought coming from?? Just b/c your school has ivy in its nickname does that mean that you will necessarily learn more?? I don’t think so. You get the total package at a public school. Beer, Bitches, and Books. Besides the books, you only learn how to bedwet, drink Zima, and play Warcraft at the “better” school.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: actually on 11-30-2006 5:52 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

bed wetting is cool that was discussed in a previous forum

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: Seymour Johnson on 11-30-2006 5:53 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

Bedwetting is for little crybabies. Pissing yourself while asleep is for boozehounds.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: Full Package on 11-30-2006 5:54 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

You get the “full package” at UNC, Vandy and UNC. That is it. And if you know what you’re doing, you can do fine with chicks at Princeton, Dartmouth and plenty of other top tier schools. Going to some mediocre state school is not the “full package.” So many rationalizations about why it’s “better” to go to a non top 25 school…

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: Full Package on 11-30-2006 5:55 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

Make that “UNC, Vandy and UVA”

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: turbos go to on 11-30-2006 5:59 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

JMU and VaTech. gross

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: carolina girl on 11-30-2006 6:06 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

UNC is MUCH harder to get into than Duke, both in and out of state. Duke is not an Ivy league school, so don’t include it in the same company as Harvard and Princeton.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: Mr. T on 11-30-2006 6:07 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

I have to say, I do not agree.  But hey, I guess you’ve never experienced college.  Sucks for you….Maybe next life.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: reality check on 11-30-2006 6:11 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

There are some cool people at HSC and some dorks. There are some cool people at Harvard and there are some dorks. There are some cool people at Smith Point and there are, yet again, some dorks.

How quickly we forget, that even within our own fraternities at university, there were those with whom we enjoyed partying and those from whom we would run to the hills.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: judge joe brown on 11-30-2006 6:11 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

I went to what you would consider a pure party school for undergrad and a good but not top tier law school. Still, I’m killing it in DC. Not everyone I went to school with is doing the same.

It’s all what you make of it.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: different ballgame on 11-30-2006 6:14 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

judge joe — but you made up for it and went to a top tier law school. that is entirely different.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: uh on 11-30-2006 6:14 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

unc is not harder to get into than duke in state.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: Full Package on 11-30-2006 6:16 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

Mr. T, I graduated from UNC with a 3.7 and a serious drinking problem. I’m shocked how some people are still of the high school mindset that getting good grades is “not cool.”

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: Mr. T on 11-30-2006 6:24 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

Full Package, I congratulate you. I completely agree w/ getting good grades. But I also advocate, like you, getting drunk and doing faceplants, going to football/basketball games, pissing yourself at a bar, waking up to an orgy in your bed..you know, college! haha.

I am out.  Will be back on tomorrow.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: Neutral Observation on 11-30-2006 6:38 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

Let’s be honest, Duke is tougher to get into than UNC irrespective of most circumstances. Suggesting either in- or out-of-state admissions is comparable is a stretch.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: BD on 11-30-2006 6:43 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

UNC is extremely hard to get into out of state, moreso than schools like UVa. But I imagine Duke is still harder.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: example on 11-30-2006 10:08 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

I went to Yale and make 34k a year.  I could have gone to Bridgewater College for this salary.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: truthspeak on 11-30-2006 10:09 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

It’s due to the fact that people who went to good colleges tend to be a few steps up on most of the aforementioned ‘heavy hitters’ and don’t need to be the center of attention for self actualization.

Generally most of the social scene ‘heavy hitters’ are losers in more categories than just college attended.

Advertising takedowns is a sign of weakness. Nobody ever knows the true takedown champs, and they like it that way.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: By the way on 11-30-2006 10:48 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

Of the schools on that initial list, Vanderbilt is ranked second after Princeton in US News most recent undergraduate rankings.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: King Turbo on 12-01-2006 12:18 am     Report as shockingly offensive

Oh, Vanderbilt, let us all get down on our knees and pray to the “daddy wrote a check and I scored well on my SAT’s” Not a bad school, but come on for Christ’s sake. Then again what do I know, I am a but turbo that attended Syracuse…or VT or Strayer for grad school..

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: timothy bryce on 12-01-2006 1:05 am     Report as shockingly offensive

“I went to Yale and make 34k a year. I could have gone to Bridgewater College for this salary.”

From the tables down at Mory’s,

To the place where Louie dwells,

And the dear, old Temple Bar we love so well,

Sing the Whiffenpoofs assembled,

With their glasses raised on high!

And the magic of their singing, casts a spell.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: Jake LaMotta on 12-01-2006 1:30 am     Report as shockingly offensive

i dropped out of GMU to start a software company…

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: 8===D on 12-01-2006 2:15 am     Report as shockingly offensive

Who said Vandy was a good school?  And don’t get me started on trincoll.edu\countryclub.htm

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: hey 8====D on 12-01-2006 6:47 am     Report as shockingly offensive

Fact check: U.S. News ranks Vanderbilt #18 on their 2007 Top National Universities ahead of Georgetown and UVA! I guess because it is not North of the Mason Dixon Line it does not qualify as a good school? You’re crazy.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: King Turbo on 12-01-2006 7:07 am     Report as shockingly offensive

8===D–Last time I checked Tennessee was South of the M-D Line.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: King Turbo on 12-01-2006 8:07 am     Report as shockingly offensive

Drunk response–please disregard the previous post

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: The Real Deal on 12-01-2006 9:10 am     Report as shockingly offensive

What if… you all are absolutely f’n absurd, and yes, I went to a great school, have money, make money, have connetions, f*ck like a champ, and get after it on a regular basis. You all bore me.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: the real deal on 12-01-2006 9:11 am     Report as shockingly offensive

do NOT ever steal my monicker. you probably went to some shitty school too. think of your own name

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: ? on 12-01-2006 9:22 am     Report as shockingly offensive

Hey real deal…did you go to Indiana??

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: the real deal on 12-01-2006 9:25 am     Report as shockingly offensive

Indiana? where’s that?

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: to real deal on 12-01-2006 9:33 am     Report as shockingly offensive

I could not agree more - my suspicion is that most of the people on this post are still less than a year removed from college. Take it from me, who knows both people that went to Ivies and those that went to Hampden-Sydney/Roanoke/Rollins, etc- they all do pretty damn well and are respected around DC because of their accomplishments and ability, not simply their alma mater. Your callous black and white mentality is a true sign of your age and inexperience.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: ha on 12-01-2006 9:39 am     Report as shockingly offensive

you are all morons.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: Ron Mexico on 12-01-2006 9:42 am     Report as shockingly offensive

C’mon, it’s just a conversation piece and something you have in common with others. 

What really matters…

guys -  have some money, some looks, and some wit

girls -  be a good piece of tail for guys

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: get real on 12-01-2006 9:42 am     Report as shockingly offensive

don’t kid yourselves to think that having attended yale/duke/harvard/etc. doesn’t put you leaps and bounds above any kid that went to roanoke/rollins/etc. the better schools thrive on hiring/helping their alumni and it has been this way forever. it opens more doors than anyone’s “accomplishments and abilities.” Period.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: exactly on 12-01-2006 9:43 am     Report as shockingly offensive

Get real has it right. Who runs this country (and ostensibly the world)? Yale alums. With a few Harvard, Princeton, Duke etc thrown in the mix.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: no on 12-01-2006 9:43 am     Report as shockingly offensive

get real, are you hot or not?

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: to no on 12-01-2006 9:48 am     Report as shockingly offensive

there is no chance

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: Any man on 12-01-2006 9:51 am     Report as shockingly offensive

“they all do pretty damn well and are respected around DC because of their accomplishments and ability”

Everyone you know is respected around DC because of their accomplishments AND their ability? What in the world are talking about.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: shoot me on 12-01-2006 9:52 am     Report as shockingly offensive

no lns self promotion, please

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: New Mexico State on 12-01-2006 9:53 am     Report as shockingly offensive

UNC is a public school. I can’t believe that people are trying to justify their ECU/UNC experience by comparing UNC to Duke. There is no comparison. We should start a board for people who went to private schools.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: huh on 12-01-2006 9:53 am     Report as shockingly offensive

what in the world are talking about?

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: private on 12-01-2006 9:55 am     Report as shockingly offensive

I agree…anyone who argues that UNC is as hard to get into as Duke clearly has the reasoning ability of someone who went to UNC…a PUBLIC school

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: huh on 12-01-2006 9:55 am     Report as shockingly offensive

what in the world are talking about?

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: M-Street Mayhem on 12-01-2006 9:55 am     Report as shockingly offensive

No one cares about schools. I went to a mediocre school but have a lot of DC connections and make lots of money. That correlates to takedown central. Sorry losers.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: worth noting on 12-01-2006 9:57 am     Report as shockingly offensive

Businessweek just featured an article about how, based on all CEO’s of public companies in the U.S., the overwhelming majority went to state universities and other “lesser known” schools. The reason Harvard, etc had less? They are poor managers, and do not know how to effectively deal with people. I foresee many on this post facing the same fate.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: Any man on 12-01-2006 9:57 am     Report as shockingly offensive

Referring to how someone said they know people who went to all types of colleges and “all of them do pretty damn well.” Are we back to suggesting it doesn’t matter what college you went to? I guess I would be surprised if someone who went to a good school wrote that.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: haha on 12-01-2006 9:58 am     Report as shockingly offensive

so maybe we should all just go to terrible schools if we want to get on the fast track to becoming the next great ceo.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: to haha on 12-01-2006 10:00 am     Report as shockingly offensive

we report, you decide

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: Heel on 12-01-2006 10:01 am     Report as shockingly offensive

If you want a party school and great academics, there are a few great options. Why don’t you just go to UNC, then you could stop making all of these rationalizations.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: Ed Cota on 12-01-2006 10:32 am     Report as shockingly offensive

See you at the Players Club!

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: oh my fucking god on 12-01-2006 10:35 am     Report as shockingly offensive

this is such a lame thread… i cant even stand to see its title on the main page anymore.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: Agreed on 12-01-2006 10:36 am     Report as shockingly offensive

get rid of it please

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: UNC on 12-01-2006 11:12 am     Report as shockingly offensive

What is up with all the Carolina/public school haters? Why on earth would anyone from North Carolina want to throw their money away to go to some private Northern school with a bunch of obnoxious Yankees with bad accents and hair gel, when we can get the same education in state for a tenth of the cost?

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: aaaaaaaaargh... on 12-01-2006 11:14 am     Report as shockingly offensive

enough already with this thread…who cares anymore

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: Seymour Johnson on 12-01-2006 11:16 am     Report as shockingly offensive

Duke sucks. I would rather go to Arkansas or Illinois than Duke. Why on earth would you put yourself through the misery of going to that place?

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: . on 12-01-2006 11:20 am     Report as shockingly offensive

many of you are confusing “correlation” and “causation”.

Correlation: Statistics. the degree to which two or more attributes or measurements on the same group of elements show a tendency to vary together.

Causation:the action of causing or producing

Going to a good college definately HELPS  acheive success (correlation) but it doesnt guarantee (causation)

Likewise, going to a “lesser ranked” school is usually correlated with less sucess, but not always.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: Your all fulla crap on 12-01-2006 11:20 am     Report as shockingly offensive

Did we really learn anything at college anyways? besides how to take a massive GB rip or how to hit the ski slopes until noon the next day while aggesively taking down ex GF\’s roomate. At least thats what we did at UGA playas! holla

and anybody who thinks that they actually learned hat much valuable information is fulla crap! I got into many good schools but went to UGA for the fun, not b/c they had the best selection of periodicals in their library. oohhh you gat served!

get back to work

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: .... on 12-01-2006 11:21 am     Report as shockingly offensive

Man, I had a lot of respect for Georgia until I read that post. That was aweful.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: whoa there on 12-01-2006 11:23 am     Report as shockingly offensive

it was a bad hungover joke dick, lighten up…

sarcasm doesn\’t translate well sometimes

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: true on 12-01-2006 11:24 am     Report as shockingly offensive

To fulla crap — people from good colleges are arguing exactly that. What is funny is that people from bad colleges are coming back with the same argument suggesting that there is a correlation between being a ceo and going to a lesser college. It’s funny to watch.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: Bulldog on 12-01-2006 11:25 am     Report as shockingly offensive

UGA ROCKS - best orgies ever!

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: Capitan on 12-01-2006 11:25 am     Report as shockingly offensive

There needs to be a post for all the returds on this site dedicated to stressing that definitely is not spelled definately

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: westcoaster on 12-01-2006 11:26 am     Report as shockingly offensive

why does everyone hate Duke so much?

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: orgies on 12-01-2006 11:26 am     Report as shockingly offensive

my sentiments exactly

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: Ron Mexico on 12-01-2006 11:27 am     Report as shockingly offensive

Forget CEO’s.  Take a look at the US Forbes 400 -  granted some didn’t go to college at all, but most others were in the top 25.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: orgies on 12-01-2006 11:27 am     Report as shockingly offensive

Duke is awful, christian lattiner sucks off coach K for crack money while wojo videotapes

HA!
Posted By: Bulldog on 12-01-2006 11:28 am     Report as shockingly offensive

Orgies - hahahhaha, you speak truth.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: please on 12-01-2006 11:28 am     Report as shockingly offensive

get rid of this thread

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: ..... on 12-01-2006 11:36 am     Report as shockingly offensive

Duke is terrible. I dont mind their teams, but their student body is miserable. Again I ask why on Earth would you go there, except maybe to play basketball for Coach K?

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: duke '02 on 12-01-2006 12:23 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

why wouldn’t you go there?  great school

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: Lube on 12-01-2006 12:27 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

Better yet why would anyone go to Maryland?  What a shit hole.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: The Mayor on 12-01-2006 1:17 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

I went there assclown and it was great. While I was there we won the National Championship in Basketball and won the ACC in football. I have been a Maryland fan my whole life so that’s why I went there.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: Len Bias on 12-01-2006 1:19 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

To the discerning Terp: which was a better riot- the Final Four loss in 2001, the National Championship win in 2002, or the Lady Terp victory in 2006?

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: Ralph Friedgen's Fupa on 12-01-2006 1:25 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

Is Maryland the school where they burn couches using shaved mullet hair as kindling when they win football games?

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: Unknown on 12-01-2006 1:26 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

that is WVU but same thing really.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: The Mayor on 12-01-2006 1:30 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

Def Final Four Loss in 2001, it was the first, the biggest and the longest. After that they all pretty much sucked becuase there were cops on horses with tear gas. I hear National Championship was pretty good, but I wouldn’t know I was courtside at the game.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: HAHA on 12-01-2006 4:06 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

This is in response to a much earlier posting by ‘Please.’ The post says “Duke and Harvard are aweful. I would rather my kid go somewhere moderately fun over those prisons. Any good school has plenty of academic opportunites.”

CUZ I WOULD RATHER MY KID GO TO A SCHOOL WHERE THEY TEACH YOU HOW TO SPELL AWFUL!!!!! Ahahahahaha. Check yourself before you wreck yourself. People don’t hate Duke and Harvard… they are jealous.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: The warden on 12-01-2006 4:09 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

Did you really just put an entire sentence in caps for the incorrect spelling of awful.

Like the previous poster said, Duke and Harvard prisons. The students are inmates who jump at the chance to correct spelling.

Add to the fact that you’re like hours late.

Take a lap.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: HAHAH on 12-01-2006 4:16 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

I am not a spelling Nazi…. But such blatant hypocricy deserves a call out. And sorry I don’t spend every second of the work day reading late night shots. Please forgive my tardniness. The clever little prison analogy is totally relevant… cuz you get sodomized in the shower at Duke and Harvard and pay $40,000 to go to jail.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: money poorly spent on 12-01-2006 4:20 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

The amount of money you spend on your education is NOT a correlation to the quality of your education. The examples are endless.

Whatever they’re both good schools but the point was many of the kids who go there (not for sports) are wound up so damn tight.

Grad school now that’s a different story.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: ahhhh on 12-01-2006 4:26 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

THERE IS SOME CORRELATION BUT IT IS NOT CAUSAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

CHRIST

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: dumb on 12-01-2006 4:29 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

if this thread doesn’t end I’m going to throw my computer out the window.

WHO CARES!?!?!?!

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: ahhhhh on 12-01-2006 4:33 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

i agree but if you are going to argue it at least try to use the correct teriminology

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: To HAHAH on 12-01-2006 4:34 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

calling someone out for spelling and then misspelling hypocrisy?  That’s funny.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: The Warden on 12-01-2006 4:37 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

Listen here Rook. Before you start coming on this site and singing the praises out of order and start nerding up the place with statistical sampling definitions, check your ego at the door.

We hire and fire, Ivy league kids because once they get out and no one is spoon feeding them information they’re useless.

Do your self a favor and lay off the caffenine and caps key.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: HAHAHA on 12-01-2006 4:42 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

You got me there. I suck. Now I’m just laughing at myself.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: beat it on 12-01-2006 4:44 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

HAHAHA go grab some bench

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: ahhhh on 12-01-2006 4:46 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

so you would prefer to have a ‘debate’ where you use terms that have the complete opposite definition of what you mean? that ’s totally logical. my mistake.

i think you could have benefited from some spoon feeding yourself

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: The Warden on 12-01-2006 4:48 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

Although your vain attempt at self deprecation was meant to be funny it wasn’t.

Hopefully we can finally close this post remember we are out of college.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: ahhhh on 12-01-2006 4:52 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

it wasn’t meant to be funny- just highlight the ridiculousness of whatever you were trying to get across

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: The Warden on 12-01-2006 4:53 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

‘debate’ on an LNS forum. Are you kidding me?

Spend time on it first.  Read, learn and then wait your turn before you start shooting off some nonsense. 

I’m out of here.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: HAHAA on 12-01-2006 4:57 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

I was simply conceiting my own error. Stop taking yourself and this stupid forum so seriously. If you really wanted to end this post you would not have kept reading it.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: to HAHAA on 12-01-2006 5:01 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

please, quit while you’re behind. By the way, it is “concede” not “conceit.” I realize that this is just a messageboard, but there is a difference between misspelling a word and not even knowing the right word to use.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: to HAHA on 12-01-2006 5:02 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

I am not taking this forum seriously- I was saying that in jest.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: pathethic on 12-01-2006 5:05 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

Are you going to continue to try and explain yourself?  Call it a day and try again next week. 

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: ahhhhh on 12-01-2006 5:06 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

to “to haha”

you have to give it up.  you just cant teach an old dog new tricks.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: Seymour Johnson on 12-01-2006 5:16 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

Get me out of this office/ prison. It reminds me of my year at Duke.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: Bernard on 12-04-2006 10:26 am     Report as shockingly offensive

Mitch, I built Speaker City from the ground up. I barely even know how to read.  True Story.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: The U on 07-20-2007 12:46 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

How has the hipster infiltration affected the collective educational pedigree of the site?

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: Hmmm on 07-20-2007 12:51 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

Lots of turbs at Arizona State, hipsters ar Brown

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: how about on 07-20-2007 12:55 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

people on the scene of have crappy or no jobs

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: to how about on 07-20-2007 12:58 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

… and don’t forget about degrees from mediocre school

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: gotta love it on 07-20-2007 12:59 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

the degrees from the polytech schools

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: ha on 07-20-2007 1:00 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

bitter hipsters.  pretty much required if you’re going to be a hipster to be angry at the world.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: The U on 07-20-2007 1:00 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

That wasn’t the question, how about– I stumbled across the old thread, and was curious as to how the influx of turb/hipster outsiders prompted by the CP/blogosphere action had affected the alumni representation on the site.

Has there been a spike in typical “turbo” colleges or myriad Brown, Reed, Oberlin, Chicago hipster breeding grounds?

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: DaisyMay on 07-20-2007 1:02 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

Can we all agree that college was A WHILE AGO for most of us and that if you have to cling to your undergraduate roots to make yourself cool, well, that is pretty lame

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: GOD on 07-20-2007 1:03 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

shut up. you all sound like morons arguing over what school is better. they’re all pretty much top tier, not ivys, but most of the people we know went to decent schools. get the f over it and get back to work or get a damn hobby. what are you people? bored?

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: yes on 07-20-2007 1:05 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

yes, I an bored, hungover, and avoiding work and it will bite me in the ass monday, but on monday I won’t feel like a trashcan.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: Ivy League on 07-20-2007 1:07 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

Sounds like some people didn’t go to very good colleges. As I storm up the corporate ladder, I will never forget my roots at a top tier institution and I will likely never hire anyone who didn’t go to a top 20 school.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: well on 07-20-2007 1:07 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

well i went to jmu

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: I'd like you to on 07-20-2007 1:10 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

Tell that to the chairman of lehman brothers and the CEO of Exxon, just to name a few mr. “ivy league”

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: eww on 07-20-2007 1:11 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

I’d keep that a secret.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: To Ivy Leaguer on 07-20-2007 1:12 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

I agree, people who say it doesn’t matter where you went to college tend to be those who went to shitty schools

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: to GOD on 07-20-2007 1:12 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

What the hell are you responding to?

Simple questions, and without judgement with respect to schools.

Everybody knows the colleges that most people on LNS are from (early and later.) Fairly narrow swath of institutions, by and large.

Nobody is arguing about which shool is better,

but rather if and how the recent attention and presumable registration spike has broadened and/or re-distributed/supplanted the schools that are most often associated w/ LNS.

If you’re not bored, and are that worried about “getting back to work” you shouldn’t be reading, much less posting.

Judgement aside, I think generalizations about colleges with respect to politics/cultural profile is fair, and has nothing to do with percieved prestige or rankings. If you are that reluctant to talk about your school, I think you’re the insecure one.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: Ivy League on 07-20-2007 1:13 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

I’m not saying it’s impossible to make something of yourself if you go to a non-top 20 school or if you show up to the U.S. with nothing but a shovel in your hand, but you are at a severe disadvantage unless you wield major connections.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: VT on 07-20-2007 1:19 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

GO HOKIES.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: please stop on 07-20-2007 1:21 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

And I’d like you to realize that its insecure idiots like you that make ivy leaguers come off as assholes. I went to a top 10 school and find your comments tiresome and self absorbed. It’s your CV I’d throw in the bin—not a solid, intelligent guy who happened to go to Ann Arbor.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: re: Ivy League on 07-20-2007 1:21 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

get your ass out of D.C. and you’ll realize that the great wealth being created in our nation today is by high technical and driven individuals, regardless of college education.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: re re ivy league on 07-20-2007 1:32 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

couldn’t have said it better. some people are smart, driven, hard working individuals who diddled around in high school, and/or don’t test well, then went to so called “shitty” schools, but are doing very well in their careers and lives in general, not bc of their diploma, but bc of their individual merits. i also know several people that went to to 20, top 30, top 50, whatever schools that are totally floundering. it really depends on the person

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: haha on 07-20-2007 1:33 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

i have a better job than 99% of the people i know here and i went to a school that is not a top 30 anything…undergrad is way over rated. Sure you may have started with a higher salary but the fact that you cant interact socially is why i now have the better job at the end of year 2. I feel like the majority of these ivy leaguers dont have the common sense that it takes to really suceed…they will be working for me in 5 years.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: double hahah on 07-20-2007 1:37 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

I make more money and have more wives and smoke more cigarettes and have more political clout and went to a better school and am more honest even though this is an anonymous forum than 100% of the people on late night shots.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: The U on 07-20-2007 1:39 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

I really regret resurrecting this thread b/c everyone missed the point.

I think Ivy League’s point is probably obnoxious and unnecessary, but why is everyone so freaking defensive about this? If undergrad doesn’t matter, why do you spend so much time trying to rationalize?

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: good lord on 07-20-2007 1:41 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

That is an equally foolish thing to say. It isn’t one way or the other. Ivy Leaguers are generally very successful. There are lots of nerds everywhere and arguing that because you did well in High school and on your SAT’s makes you a loser shows a serious lack of logic and frankly not many of these so called social skills you claim to have. Quit being bitter you went to JMU and ivy leaguer quit resting on the laurels your parents obviously bought for you. I set the curve in your calc 101 class.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: To haha on 07-20-2007 1:43 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

People who went to Chapel Hill/Virginia/Vanderbilt have the dual distinction of having gone to a good school and likely having passable social skills. Does that mean they are way above you on the corporate ladder?

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: I don't think on 07-20-2007 1:45 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

anyone who went to JMU is or has ever been bitter about it.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: to I don't think on 07-20-2007 1:45 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

please delete your lns account

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: private sector on 07-20-2007 1:46 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

don’t 90% of you working on the hill make sub 50k sitting around answering fucking phones all day. Get a real job where what you learned in college and social skills really matter.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: to private sector on 07-20-2007 1:48 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

Treating college like a trade school is for poor people… aka business majors.   It’s called an education, not job training.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: To private sector on 07-20-2007 1:49 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

I have never worked on the hill, never will and will never be involved in politics, but I think it’s probably time we moved past this whole notion that working on the Hill is a bad job. Very few people under the age of 25, whether they have a godo job or not, are doing anything productive at work on a daily basis. And it’s just kind of ignorant to claim that most of these people making no money now won’t have great opportunities sooner rather than later. I respect the fact that they’re living like paupers with the long term in mind.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: JMU Rules on 07-20-2007 1:53 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

I don’t know why all you turbos have to be hating on JMU. Go Dukes! I make $53K a year, and I’m only 24. Go Dukes! I have a friend from UVA who only makes $50K a year. Did you ever think of THAT???? Probably not.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: Oh my goodness on 07-20-2007 1:55 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

I hadn’t thought of that.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: Sammy on 07-20-2007 1:56 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

My GF went to Radford. I’m kind of embarrassed b/c I’m UVA. Does that matter?

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: what a loser on 07-20-2007 1:57 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

You are such white trash you dukie. You have no breeding or education which is shown by your tasteless and irrelevant comparison. My coke dealer makes six figures, where does he stand in your social hierarchy?

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: Wooden Ship on 07-20-2007 1:57 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

Dude, just make sure you wear a rubber

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: heart duke on 07-20-2007 2:01 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

I went to duke and I loved it! It’s a work hard play hard school that’s ranked in the top 10 above a number of Ivy’s. (Granted I left before the lax scandal, so some things on campus may have changed.) I believe having the Duke degree has really helped me get my foot in the door for interviews.

RE: College Degrees Not Correlated with DC Social Status
Posted By: to heart duke on 07-20-2007 2:03 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

Jesus christ– how did you get in? Reading comprehension obviously not a strong suit. Pretty sure “dukie” was chastising the JMU Duke above…

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Posted By: hmmmm on 07-20-2007 2:05 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

what about tulane? i mean, if you went there and made it out alive, it says a lot

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Posted By: Ron on 07-20-2007 2:07 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

Martini went to Tulane and is running a spider fund, so it’s a bit ignorant to claim you can’t do great things with that degree.

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Posted By: Red Raider on 07-20-2007 2:08 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

Go ‘Gate

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Posted By: $$$ on 07-20-2007 2:08 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

Pretty sure the value of every Tulane alums degree was boosted exponentially the day Swayze recieved his diploma.

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Posted By: noone really cares on 07-20-2007 2:10 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

sooo if I went to JMU for undergrad and am deciding between UVA or Georgetown for my MBA. Where does that put me?

By the way…I read what was said earlier…definitely not bitter about going to JMU…quit hating on a school that you know nothing about.

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Posted By: Darden on 07-20-2007 2:12 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

I’m saying this as a Georgetown alum, and if you choose McDonough over UVA you’re a tard.

(Unless you were going to do some sort of night/weekend program and keep working…)

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Posted By: Jugdish on 07-20-2007 2:13 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

What about Mason? It wuz so kewl and phun there!

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Posted By: Ribbentrop on 07-20-2007 2:18 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

Yes, yes…and I don’t know much about the Gulag system either. But I DO know something about JMU: everyone on here that talks about that wretched institution has terrible reasoning skills and childlike writing.

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Posted By: Lloyd Braun on 07-20-2007 2:19 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

It puts you as an outlier. The only thing most of my friends got from JMU was herpes from really hot girls.

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Posted By: JMU on 07-20-2007 2:24 pm     Report as shockingly offensive

Everyone I know who went to JMU loved it, including me. You all don’t even know what you are talking about. Most people I know(including myself) will instantly deny a kid who keeps bringing up his ivy league or top tier education. Just because your daddy had the connects and the $$$ doesn’t mean shi