BEFORE you post a rant and get useless advice...

Think about how WSOers can best help you! If you got a few offers for school/work... congrats that you can now brag a little! But don't just ask us to rank prestige for you, please?

Get best advice by giving good context in clean bullet formats! Useful context can include your background or preferences on budget, major, location, industry, career progressions, work life balance, and more. Most the time the context are more crucial to you than a prestige list!

If you don't want terrible advice, also do your own research! Lack of interest in research yourself signals the worthlessness of your questions! Ask Google, Siri, and you have tons of keywords to choose from. Nobody has the exact same scenario as yours, but many can get more out of common information because they try harder.

Lastly, don't ask questions just to find someone to make a decision for you or to get 'supporting' evidence' if you made up your mind already. Take answers as ways to consider your problem! We are strangers and you bear the consequences in life, career, tuition bills, family and whatever. Don't live your life only because a WSO post told you so, and you can also ruin your life by taking the comfy advice for your ears.

Be an independent thinker and make an informed decision that is equally likely to succeed and fail in the future! Let's see if this can be hung on top of this forum... If your self confidence is taking a hit, guess Monkey shit is also welcomed...

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Lol I went back to it and realised my own brain was restructuring this mess unconsciously. Grammar died today.

I think I know what happened. As he was speaking out loud while typing, his hands couldn't keep up and missed every other word. Could have easily been avoided by double-checking but who cares anyways.

Absolute truths don't exist... celebrated opinions do.
 

Good post overall. I certainly agree with the sentiment of "Hey, if you come here to ask for advice, don't be lazy or narcissistic."

But this could use some additional editing before it gets stickied or front paged. Here are some sample changes:

"Get the best advice by giving good context in clean bullet formats!"

"Most of the time the context is more crucial to [your decision] than a prestige [ranking]!"

(Andy feel free to delete this commentary if it goes to FP)

 

Thank you for dictating the rules of WSO. I will continue doing whatever the fuck I want on here.

"A man can convince anyone he's somebody else, but never himself."
 

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