What do you guys think about this?
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304…
How many people take hard courses at Ivy league universities?
Trending Content
| +81 | GF doesn’t care about her looks | 49 | 12h | |
| +52 | Affair with my Associate… In Desperate Need for Advice | 23 | 5h | |
| +41 | How to sound more eloquent? | 16 | 2h | |
| +39 | Insurance as High Finance? | 10 | 1d | |
| +38 | 400k/year in HVAC sales? | 26 | 23h | |
| +33 | Would you rather live alone in an outer borough or with roommates in Manhattan? | 23 | 1d | |
| +27 | Why do people listen to Jim Cramer Investing Advice? | 10 | 7h | |
| +26 | Is my boss gaslighting me? | 3 | 6h | |
| +25 | Carnivore Diet | 9 | 7h | |
| +25 | WSO Ranking On Resume??? | 6 | 6h |
Career Resources
Waste of 2 minutes of my life. What a terrible article.
Sounds like it was written by the mom of a graduating Swarthmore student who didn't get any good jobs and had a dogshit GPA, but was an absolute whiz at Guitar Hero and smoking pot.
I'm a whiz at Guitar Hero, and was captain of the bong team!
yeah...fairly pointless
I think we can all agree that incompetence is prevalent within all generations, but there will always be intelligent people who are driven to work hard.
People always will do what is the most economical, broadly based.
Option 1: Work your ass off in undergrad to get a 3.6 GPA with a degree in mechanical engineering and make $60,000 starting out with max of maybe $100,000.
Option 2: Work hard (but still have fun) in undergrad to get a 3.8 GPA in economics or political science, get a job as an IB analyst, make $70,000 / year starting with a max of many, many millions.
There's a reason people are choosing to do liberal arts degrees. It's not because people are incapable of doing CS/Engineering, it's that CS/Engineering is REALLY, REALLY hard (especially at top schools) and the incentive just isn't there. I'm at a top 10/15 known for the sciences, and I can tell you that the students doing well as Biomedical / Chemical engineers are literally working their asses off, compared to the political science / writing students who work hard, but it's just not in the same league.
Or, to put it another way, I took a 400-level poli-sci class as a freshman and did perfectly fine. There would be no way in hell I could walk into a 400-level math class on topology and do well as a freshman. That's the difference.
Agree 100%. I was a Electrical Engineer in freshman year of college and switched to Econ sophomore year. Results: GPA went up 0.6, made friends who didn't play Dungeons and Dragons, got laid 10x more, and my salary alone is over 2x versus engineers.
" But he didn't know who was president of the United States in 1956." This idiot writes an article about how dumb an entire generation is, but can't even use proper grammar in a published article... really?
You can't say, "He didn't know who was the president." it has to be, "He didn't know who the president was."
.
not a big fan of this guy's commentary in the wsj, esp. today. I would much rather read something by Scott Templeton
Seriously, my question is why did he write this piece? I personally also am not too fond of the students who go to school and hope to succeed by studying a subject for its relative ease. I also am not going to write an article in the WSJ where I simply shoot off about how systematic it is.
Was this meant to be inspirational?
The president comment didn't really make any sense... He was born in the 70s, so obviously he would have more knowledge of presidents in the 50s compared to someone born in the 80s/90s. What a nub
Wah, wah, wah. I like to make sweeping claims using anecdotes. Everyone I meet is a fucktard. Poo.
Guy needs to chill and rinse out the sand.
The implicit message he's sending is that he somehow adds value to society for writing a shit column for the WSJ where he shits on young people. That message is wrong.
It has less to do with intelegence, and more to do with changing times. 30 years ago the information curve was flat by today's standards. The rate at which knowledge grows in today's world essentially puts downward pressure on memorization of facts that do not change. Why would I memorize who was president in 1956 when I can look that up in an instant. The human brain has limits and with the amount of information out there today we have to pick and choose what we spend time on.
Wrote a letter to him after reading that yesterday, great article and I can relate
Adipisci sed laborum blanditiis at alias voluptate. Facere veritatis ullam impedit vel aspernatur velit. Dolores et sint quo quisquam. Rerum quisquam rerum nihil ut pariatur fuga eveniet.
Magnam necessitatibus quisquam sunt voluptatem amet occaecati rerum. Quo laudantium pariatur est deserunt. Ullam dolore animi ut alias.
See All Comments - 100% Free
WSO depends on everyone being able to pitch in when they know something. Unlock with your email and get bonus: 6 financial modeling lessons free ($199 value)
or Unlock with your social account...