The Philosophy Professor from Pineapple Paradise.
I am soooo tempted to hunt down a particular philosophy professor and make her drown in pineapple hell. My brother and I spent some time laughing at him/her for a while. A short while. I guess it was a little evil on our part but it was therapeutic nonetheless. It got especially funny to find out that her peers/underlings graduated from Cornell and Yale and all of that while she graduated from er... hmmm I wonder where?
I'm not one for elitism; frankly I don't really put people who graduate from ivy league colleges on a pedestal. To me, it's like, "Oh okay you're relatively smart/studious. Good for you!" Apart from that I don't think I actually bother taking a second glance... Obviously in terms of employability and all these job market concerns these people stand out, but my personal view since I am not a HR person is that the local system has made me more alert and perceptive and because of that, I really don't trust brand name schools that much. I'm sure if I was given a shot at a degree in any of those schools I'd be honoured and I might even jump at the offer, but ultimately I just don't see why it should be that huge a deal. I guess it also helps if you've heard as many stories as I have about people from Sloan, Harvard and Yale getting fired. But I digress, again.
About that certain philosophy professor? It's just that I won't stand being spoken to in a condescending manner by someone who can't even stand up against the same rule of judgment that he/she applies to others. Funny how some people have gone to grad school but are, in reality, not very bright individuals on so many counts.
People put so much value in a degree from a top school that they allow their brand-name colleges to define them their whole lives. They forget that it is they who define their colleges. It is so sad that these people, in doing so, allow themselves and their abilities to be limited by other people's expectations of what an institution can or cannot produce. Definitely too narrow a position for a person of such calibre to assume.
I'm not one for elitism; frankly I don't really put people who graduate from ivy league colleges on a pedestal. To me, it's like, "Oh okay you're relatively smart/studious. Good for you!" Apart from that I don't think I actually bother taking a second glance... Obviously in terms of employability and all these job market concerns these people stand out, but my personal view since I am not a HR person is that the local system has made me more alert and perceptive and because of that, I really don't trust brand name schools that much. I'm sure if I was given a shot at a degree in any of those schools I'd be honoured and I might even jump at the offer, but ultimately I just don't see why it should be that huge a deal. I guess it also helps if you've heard as many stories as I have about people from Sloan, Harvard and Yale getting fired. But I digress, again.
About that certain philosophy professor? It's just that I won't stand being spoken to in a condescending manner by someone who can't even stand up against the same rule of judgment that he/she applies to others. Funny how some people have gone to grad school but are, in reality, not very bright individuals on so many counts.
People put so much value in a degree from a top school that they allow their brand-name colleges to define them their whole lives. They forget that it is they who define their colleges. It is so sad that these people, in doing so, allow themselves and their abilities to be limited by other people's expectations of what an institution can or cannot produce. Definitely too narrow a position for a person of such calibre to assume.