""Priscilla Oppenheimer"" wrote in message
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> nrf wrote:
> >
> > ""Priscilla Oppenheimer"" wrote in
> > message
> > news:200407291842.i6TIgtvD029572@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > "Chuck Whose Road is Ever Shorte wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Degree? In what? For what purpose?
> > > >
> > > > Certification? Wonderful! May it take you as far as you
> > want to
> > > > go and more.
> > > >
> > > > As the song goes:
> > > >
> > > > If it makes you happy
> > > > It can't be that bad
> > > > If it makes you happy
> > > > Then why the hell are you so sad
> > > >
> > > > Do what makes you happy. Do what helps you attain your goals
> > > > for yourself
> > > > and your life.
>
> yadda yadda snipped
>
> >
> > Another case in point. I know plenty of alums from MIT who
> > enjoy being from
> > MIT, but did not enjoy actually being at MIT. In fact very few
> > students
> > actually enjoy being at MIT.
>
> My husband loved MIT. Got a 4.0 grade point average too. Even stayed for
his
> masters. But he's a major nerd. :-)
Only a 4.0? Keep in mind that MIT uses a (weird) 5-point grading scale.
>
> snip
> >
> > Yet lest you think that the place is nothing but a house of
> > horrors, keep in
> > mind that the school has one of the tightest-knit and most
> > loyal alumni, if
> > not the tightest-knit and most loyal alumni, of any school in
> > the world.
>
> Absolutely terrific reunions. I never had so much fun in my life. My
reunion
> was all about, "so which medical or legal speciality did you end up going
> into?" Alan's was about learning (yes, lots of seminars), music, dancing,
> and eating international delicacies in beautiful Cambridge, MA with other
> eggheads. I loved it. :-)
>
> Priscilla
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