Where seniors at my high school are going

[Jonny]

Kuci's list is pretty impressive. Ours is usually pretty diverse also, but with Vandy usually taking the most.

[Pekka]

Why is a list of 'where other peopel are going' impressive? I never get this one? As if this guarantees anything to anyone?

I'm glad Kuci is getting into a good school though, don't get me wrong. I'm KNOW I boast about everything, even the style I pee with. But do I boast about stuff other people, let alone people I don't know will do in a year or two? No, because it's retarded! People like you Kuci, and listen to my carefully because it will get more difficult soon... people like you will be raped in the ear.

[DaShi]

Originally posted by Jonny
Kuci's list is pretty impressive. Ours is usually pretty diverse also, but with Vandy usually taking the most.

Vanderbilt has a long tradition of high academics, cultural diversity, and producing some of the biggest ****ers to ever graduate from the American university education system.

[Egbert]

That was a good list, rather better than the list for the people I went to high school with. I lost track of nearly all of them many years ago but so far as I know this is what happened to them;

- 2 locked up in jail for murder
- 1 locked up for firebombing a petrol station
- 3 long term unemployed
- 1 left the state in a hurry, police & drug dealers after him. (I think he got brain damage from hard drugs)
- 1 commited to the loony bin
- 1 drank herself to death
- 2 have permanent jobs
- 1 has erratic employment
- 1 is rumoured to have gone to university
- 1 learnt a trade

I have no idea what happened to all the others. I don't really want to know.

[Dis]

This seems like a strange way to brag.

Who cares where the seniors are going?

The more important question is where you are going.

[Egbert]

Originally posted by Dis
This seems like a strange way to brag.

Who cares where the seniors are going?

The more important question is where you are going.

Q. Who cares where the seniors are going?
A. potential employers.

It helps if you went to a good school (ie a school with lots of successful former pupils). It looks good on the CV.

OTH If you went to a school with a seriously bad name you leave the school name off your CV.

[Jon Miller]

4 years after my highschool graduation, only one other person who graduated with my from highschool was graduating from college

Jon Miller

[-Jrabbit]

That's really kinda sad.

Of course, I took 6.5 years before I had a degree. But that was because school kept interfering with my education...

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Pekka
Why is a list of 'where other peopel are going' impressive? I never get this one? As if this guarantees anything to anyone?

I'm bragging about how my school rocks

[Jaguar]

His school is pretty good, but it's filled with the dorky kids who would get beaten up in regular schools - FACT!

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by peterfharris
That was a good list, rather better than the list for the people I went to high school with. I lost track of nearly all of them many years ago but so far as I know this is what happened to them;

- 2 locked up in jail for murder
- 1 locked up for firebombing a petrol station
- 3 long term unemployed
- 1 left the state in a hurry, police & drug dealers after him. (I think he got brain damage from hard drugs)
- 1 commited to the loony bin
- 1 drank herself to death
- 2 have permanent jobs
- 1 has erratic employment
- 1 is rumoured to have gone to university
- 1 learnt a trade

I have no idea what happened to all the others. I don't really want to know.

Typical Aussies.

[Jon Miller]

One of my classmates (she was actually smart, and cheated off me for a while in Middle School) became one of the major drug suppliers to the Wilamette Valley (Salem et all) before going to jail for it...

I knew a lot of girls who were prostitutes or strippers.. (well, this was true even before highschool ended, I knew some before highschool started)

a lot of the guys I know of were drug addicts etc, and would barely work enough to support their habits..

JonM iller

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Alphabetical order (okay, and only alphabetical order) dictates that my beloved Brown come before Yale on your list. Fix it now!

Oh, and congrats on CMU. My wife got her PhD there; it's a pressure-cooker, but the profs are good and Pittsburgh's a great place.

[Jon Miller]

CMU is a weird school. It is assuredly very good, but in many areas (I don't know about Computer Science) things are made tougher then they need to be.

What I mean by this is that there are many schools which are better then them (At least in physics) but that are easier on their students then them (CMU). Also, their students seem to think themselves better then students at schools of similiar (and at times even better) reputations do. (I am not saying that they think themselves bettter then someone who goes to one of these other, highly reputable schools, it is just that they think more of themselves, in my experience)

Jon Miller
(and reputations are a good consideration, because they do reflect how successful the students of those places are in general)

(CMU is the one graduate school that I heard many people suggest against (at least for Physics) when I was looking into applying to graduate schools, it was said that they made things as hard (or harder) than Berkeley, MIT, CalTech, or Harvard, but that it wasn't near as good of a school)

[GePap]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker


I'm bragging about how my school rocks

Pffft....

Only 7 to Harvard? What is your school made out of, dumbasses?