fuck it fuck it fuck it fuck you

philolsophy

if p then q

p, so q

same

therefore*

write about pascal's gambit

Construct Additional Pylons.

PHIL-LAWL-SOPHIE

if no one cares do you exist?

Stupid person says "I dont know anything" to which a wise one replies "me too"

i think that i think

but data does clearly weight

if nick cries out for attention and nobody is around, does he make a sound?

p bad paper clearly gonna lie

do clearly expect over a B

i should be at harvard

yeah dude i wish i could have done it all over again.

woulda busted my ass, gone to mit, then gone to harvard for PhD.

fuckin stuck at johns hopkins. shitty ass school...

you are both fucking morons

god is love
love is blind
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therefore, ray charles is god

harvard rly isn't that amazing unless u want to make contacts.

it could be the best arts school in the US, but it's nothing special. university experience is what you make it. that is, i passed up harvard for a canadian pseudo-equivalent and never regretted it. and i got an equally good education. my professors were top-notch (Oxford/Harvard/Cornell/Princeton etc grads) but that really didn't make a big difference. if you don't have a functioning independent mind you're unprepared for education, and if you do have one, it doesn't matter where you go to school because you can always get a good education and find a job later.

when education is about branding, it's clearly worth it.

dude, contacts are the ONLY thing that matters. knowing people determines your success. when i am looking for jobs to be a professor at a leading univeristy, im gonna have to fucking know people and have contacts. if i went to harvard, id be miles ahead of the competition because knowing people like e.j. corey or danishefski or these badasses gives you such an edge on everyone else.

when applying to a graduate school it also matters, because even though its possible to go to a great grad school from bumfuck U, it is unlikely, because a degree from a top 10 school matters.

its always funny that the people that try to argue a top 10 school isnt worth it or isnt that great went to low ranked or mediocre colleges

lol Canada

do you ever feel like your ego will at some point in life hinder you? like the people you will work with daily will slowly plot your demise?
same for @ gull

if you wanna be famous or recognized as being great, you have to do these things. i am humbled by people who do get in to harvard and succeed. i do think my ego has issues, because i believe the "common" person doesnt know shit about anything, but i dont think i am in the top 10% of people in the world. maybe top 20% but if that makes me an egotistical jerk than im sorry... i have confidence...

i hope im clearly arrogant, but in my field you gotta try to be the best or you wont impact the field of science at all...

This post has been edited by blackjack21 on Fri - Oct 8 2010 - 14:56:11

This poop has been edited by blackjack21 on Fri - Oct 8 2010 - 14:56:11

contacts are important early on if you're worried about where you're going with what you're doing. but if you have the ability, you can also make contacts later. its easier to stand out in the middle of nowhere than to stand out in a crowd. i was getting job offers as an undergrad through contacts so i know what you mean about how it helps, but at the same time, contacts really aren't everything. top academic schools care a lot about references, but they also care about grades, and often they ask applicants 9for grad programs) to submit current work for evaluation. contacts are only part of that equation. and later on, when you're looking for jobs, contacts will play a role in everything, but top dog schools aren't the only ones who are hiring; "lesser" schools will have less competition.

a lot depends on your model of success. but if you want to make a lot of money in the academic world, and if you want to have a solid job and get a big reputation, you don't need to make finding contacts a big goal (people will notice you at some point anyway). you just need to work hard, be good at what you're doing, and do stuff that other people aren't doing. most professors tend to follow intellectual fashions, but that's clearly really a model of success to me. i met a lot of professors who went to "sub-standard" universities who did their grad studies at ivy league schools. that's clearly the norm ofc, but it's clearly unachievable.

talent and effort outweigh mere association. contacts HELP, and they help a lot, but clearly having contacts isn't a big barrier. i used a poop-doc student for one of my references in getting into a phd at the university of toronto (a top dog university, definitely at the harvard level). nobody ever asked me why i used him, but i used him because he was a good character reference and i liked him as a person. i could've used someone with a big name but i don't think anyone would've really cared. and my cousin got into oxford (> harvard) coming out of a random state-type university without any big money behind her.

my thought is just that if you focus on what you're doing and if you're good at it, good things will come your way. tbh the harvard guys i knew didn't seem super-special and they didn't make a big deal about who they knew, outside of one guy who had his way paved with gold--nobody took him seriously afaik. and when i took the harvard tour, none of the teaching assistants or professors said anything about reputation. the only advice they gave me was to pay attention to the SAT because it could make my scholarship offer bigger if i did really well on it. nothing about who i knew etc. i guess what i'm getting at here is that i think you're too caught up in the hype about names and brands, and you could benefit by spending less time worrying about that stuff. harvard is a top-notch school, but you can get a top-notch education and a good job w/o ever making a big effort to make contacts.

harvard is clearly where u want to go if you want to make an impact on science based on contacts.

also i'm pretty sure that einstein did some of his best work while he was an unknown patent clerk.

the world is different than in einstein's day. back then you could discover something and get famous. today, all that type of shit has been discovered... you now have to learn from someone how to do good science before you can make discoveries, and the best scientists are at the best schools, etc. etc

have you clearly seen good will hunting? stop being the math prof and start being the shrink.

my balls are sweaty

robin williams dies in the end. i dont wanna die.

lol wat
he reconnects with the arrogant prick and they are m8s again, hes clearly dead

btw i dont think you are a prick, but i do think you are the stereotypical conservative who thinks hes better than everyone he meets and uses peoples accomplishments whenst making judgments on people

he leaves boston to travel the world, which is as good as dead

because hes clearly working towards more accomplishments? if you told me i could travel the world at 50 and never work again as long as i worked every day until then id proal do it and love life

just wanted to show i think im right all the time even tho im clearly

yeah

i just want to be the champion for the underdog at every moment possible

the world is different but there's nothing new under the sun?

the economy is different, people are different, but newton's idea about being a kid on the seashore picking up pebbles is as true today as when he put it to words. in einstein's day, everything was already discovered and science was already in the hands of the elite. but that didn't deter him. he said "great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds". it should be noted that scientific discoveries are being made all the time. the rate of increase in (esp communication-based and medical) technological development we've seen in recent decades doesn't suggest that we're running out of stuff to discover and create. we've hit a wave, we've found a new fashion ... but why should we think we've really gone very far in recent times? we've just moved a little in a few directions.

there are some limits on science, but they are generally material limitations and intellectual limitations. we haven't even touched the surface m8.

fucking rew'd

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