Comments on: Reality check, please

By: Vox Populi » Times to Post: “Look, some college kids don’t sell out!”

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:48:00 +0000

[...] that Washingon Post Magazine Cover story about how everyone who’s anyone ends up in finance and the rest of us are doomed to be ditch diggers? Well, this week the New York Times seeks to debunk the [...]

By: ChrisMoreau.com » I Hope…

ChrisMoreau.com » I Hope… — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 20:29:57 +0000

[...] was reading some of the blog-fodder fallout from Liza Mundy’s Post article about hypercredentialed graduates. (Full disclosure: I [...]

By: heart

heart — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:41:21 +0000

Yeah, I opened that article being excited because I thought it would be about me. I went to a VA state school, graduated with honors, and landed a job within two weeks after graduation. I thought the article would be about something real - like how every single one of my friends and I are overwhelmed because we’ve been told our whole lives that we can do anything, so how do we choose?

But instead it was about Ivy Leagers - who I have worked with at internships, by the way, and have absolutely zero social skills (basically I think they’re mean) - not real students. Good for them I guess.

By: truth

truth — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 01:59:42 +0000

cool post man, i totally digged it.

By: Will Sommer

Will Sommer — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 21:46:21 +0000

I never heard that Aleksey Vayner did coke. Performance-enhancing drugs for tango and tennis, perhaps.

By: Jeff Reger

Jeff Reger — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 03:37:08 +0000

But why not skip the charity and go straight to the coke?
Impossible is nothing!

By: Will Sommer

Will Sommer — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:27:51 +0000

Jealous much?