what highschol and college did/do you go to??

[freakoretardo]

Gonzaga College High School
 
 High Point University

[Sir HC]

Originally posted by Alec:
  did anyone here go to Oxford or MIT??      

Everyone I know who went to MIT finds a way to get it into every conversation.
 
 "Wow, tater tots, not as good as the ones at MIT though..."
 
 "I guess these door knobs don't have to be as secure as those we had at MIT".
 
 It is amazing to see in action.

[beetsnotbeats]

Originally posted by Sir HC:
   

Originally posted by Alec:
  did anyone here go to Oxford or MIT??      

Everyone I know who went to MIT finds a way to get it into every conversation.
 [/b]

Don't forget Harvard. They never miss an opportunity to play the Harvard card.

[freakoretardo]

That's kind of how I am about High Point.

[Sir HC]

Originally posted by beetsnotbeats:
   

Originally posted by Sir HC:
   

Originally posted by Alec:
  did anyone here go to Oxford or MIT??          

Everyone I know who went to MIT finds a way to get it into every conversation.
 [/b]

Don't forget Harvard. They never miss an opportunity to play the Harvard card. [/b]

Weird, the two people I know who went to Harvard (both law school) never seem to tout it.  Maybe it is an undergrad thing.  I would not have known either went there except others have mentioned it.

[HoyaSaxa03]

Originally posted by Sir HC:
 Weird, the two people I know who went to Harvard (both law school) never seem to tout it.  Maybe it is an undergrad thing.  I would not have known either went there except others have mentioned it.

they're exceptions to the rule.

[ratioci nation]

They only people I have known who went to Harvard never mentioned it either, others did, and whenever it came up they actually shied away from it.

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

I must not run in the same circles as you guys. I can only think of two Harvard grads I've met, and none from MIT.
 
 Iowa State seems to be a biggie when it comes to the statistics world.

[HoyaSaxa03]

i only say this because i just went through two months of firm interviews, and pretty much all of the harvard law grad interviewers made a point of mentioning the name of their law school at some point during the conversation, definitely not so much with other schools
 
 i think it's just that harvard has so much "layperson" cred that they're kind of conditioned into mentioning the name in all sorts of situations ... big difference between, say, university of pennsylvania, which many people may confuse with penn state, or even NYU ... i guess the same thing works with MIT, but the friend i have from there is a pretty humble guy, definitely embarrassed when it comes up

[ggw]

In my office I can't spit without hitting a Harvard grad (believe me - I've tried).   I have never found that they wear it on their sleeve.
 
 I think it's funny that a guy with the username "HoyaSaxa03" is griping about people noting where they went to school.

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
  I think it's funny that a guy with the username "HoyaSaxa03" is griping about people noting where they went to school.

Guilty As Charged!
 
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[HoyaSaxa03]

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
  In my office I can't spit without hitting a Harvard grad (believe me - I've tried).   I have never found that they wear it on their sleeve.

maybe it's different with harvard law, or different in interviews where people are trying to project something, or maybe i just hit an unrepresentative group of people
 
 

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
  I think it's funny that a guy with the username "HoyaSaxa03" is griping about people noting where they went to school.

i think it's funny that you inferred i was griping about it, i was just chiming in with my experience

[Urbansprite]

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
  In my office I can't spit without hitting a Harvard grad (believe me - I've tried).   I have never found that they wear it on their sleeve.
 
 I think it's funny that a guy with the username "HoyaSaxa03" is griping about people noting where they went to school.

ha, true.  but if he just went through law firm interviews, i don't blame him.  when it comes to first-year attorneys, a lot of firms think that where you went to school is more important than what you did in school.  hell, yale doesn't even give out grades.  whereas class rank can be do or die for most candidates, second year law students from yale can go into interviews and just say "i went to yale," as if any qualification beyond their acceptance is irrelevant.
 
 thankfully, no one gives a shit where you went to school after you get the job.  they just care if you win.

[HoyaSaxa03]

Originally posted by Urbansprite:
 hell, yale doesn't even give out grades.  whereas class rank can be do or die for most candidates, second year law students from yale can go into interviews and just say "i went to yale," as if any qualification beyond their acceptance is irrelevant.

essentially they do through the honors/pass/low pass system, just not for first semester

[kurosawa-b/w]

Mansfield Senior High School (Mansfield, OH)
 Bard College