Alright, I want to know...what college did you guys really graduate from?

A lot of fellow Cornellians on this board, it seems.

anything below an A in a graduate course is akin to failure, so you get no marks for a 3.82 grad gpa. Anyone who transfers twice as an undergraduate raises huge question marks.

Grove City was censured by the American Association of University Professors. Not very many schools get that distinction.

Williams College, B.A., King Slow Boy,

various places after.

princeton and oxford

Houston Baptist University, ran cross and track until dropping program. Transfered to Lamar University, ran cross and track.

Didn't graduate. Focused on being a great athlete/student. Now, look at me. I own my own business and just think I could have graduated and worked for one of you Cornell alums and make very little. College is overrated.

Eastern Michigan.

Bobbagunoush wrote:

I think the majority of people on LetsRun either graduated from a state flagship or mid-American university.

Speaking of mid-American - was on 1st EMU team to win a Mid-American conference championship. That came in '73 (cross).

Carlo Cipolla, an excellent economic historian, posited "The Basic Laws of Stupidity", and teased out their implications.

The first two laws are:

(1) Always and inevitably each of us underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.

(2) The probability that a given person is stupid is independent of any other characteristic possessed by that person.

I do not exempt myself from the possibility of being stupid, in accordance with the first law. Now, let's take a look at the second law in relation to LetsRun posters and their college credentials. From Cipolla:

"The probability that a certain person will be stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person.

In this regard, Nature seems indeed to have outdone herself. It is well known that Nature manages, rather mysteriously, to keep constant the relative frequency of certain natural phenomena....The most remarkable fact about the frequency of stupidity is that Nature succeeds in making this frequency equal to the probability quite independently from the size of the group.

Thus one finds the same percentage of stupid people whether one is considering very large groups or one is dealing with very small ones. No other set of observable phenomena offers such striking proof of the powers of Nature.

The evidence that education has nothing to do with the probability was provided by experiments carried on in a large number of universities all over the world. One may distinguish the composite population which constitutes a university in five major groups, namely the blue-collar workers, the white-collar employees, the students, the administrators and the professors.

Whenever I analyzed the blue-collar workers I found that the fraction σ of them were stupid. As σ's value was higher than I expected (First Law), paying my tribute to fashion I thought at first that segregation, poverty, lack of education were to be blamed. But moving up the social ladder I found that the same ratio was prevalent among the white-collar employees and among the students. More impressive still were the results among the professors. Whether I considered a large university or a small college, a famous institution or an obscure one, I found that the same fraction σ of the professors are stupid. So bewildered was I by the results, that I made a special point to extend my research to a specially selected group, to a real elite, the Nobel laureates. The result confirmed Nature's supreme powers: σ fraction of the Nobel laureates are stupid.

This idea was hard to accept and digest but too many experimental results proved its fundamental veracity. The Second Basic Law is an iron law, and it does not admit exceptions. The Women's Liberation Movement will support the Second Basic Law as it shows that stupid individuals are proportionately as numerous among men as among women. The underdeveloped of the Third World will probably take solace at the Second Basic Law as they can find in it the proof that after all the developed are not so developed. Whether the Second Basic Law is liked or not, however, its implications are frightening: the Law implies that whether you move in distinguished circles or you take refuge among the head-hunters of Polynesia, whether you lock yourself into a monastery or decide to spend the rest of your life in the company of beautiful and lascivious women, you always have to face the same percentage of stupid people - which percentage (in accordance with the First Law) will always surpass your expectations."

http://www.cantrip.org/stupidity.html

So I ask you, what is the relevance of the OP's question?

Cambridge undergrad, Oxford grad.

former NAIA cross country guy wrote:

Stan Croft wrote:

William Jewell College

wow. William Jewell brings back memories of 1971 and 1972 Nationals Cross Country. One of the hilliest and toughest courses I ever ran!

Where was the meet? I attended WJC during the late 80's and we ran our meets on campus.

I am very grateful I attended Billy Jewell Bible School, although we joked about it at the time. The courses I took there compared favorably to some grad courses I have taken.

UC San Diego

B.S. Physics

tears i cried wrote:

harvard 1st year undergrad

yale 2nd year undergrad

cornell 3rd and 4th year undergrad

currently oxford graduate school.

yeah, it's ok to be jealous.

You're a first year grad student.

You just finished some Marxian

historian, Pete Garrison prob'ly,

and so naturally that's what you

believe until next month when you

get to James Lemon and get convinced

that Virginia and Pennsylvania were

strongly entrepreneurial and

capitalist back in 1740. That'll

last until sometime in your second

year, then you'll be in here

regurgitating Gordon Wood about the

Pre-revolutionary utopia and the

capital-forming effects of military

mobilization.

"Wood drastically underestimates the

impact of social distinctions

predicated upon wealth, especially

inherited wealth..." You got that

from "Work in Essex County," Page

421, right? Do you have any thoughts

of your own on the subject or were

you just gonna plagiarize the whole

book for me?

Arkansas undergraduate, UBC ( british columbia) and Auburn for Grad School.

jjjjjjjjjjj wrote:

anything below an A in a graduate course is akin to failure, so you get no marks for a 3.82 grad gpa. Anyone who transfers twice as an undergraduate raises huge question marks.

Grove City was censured by the American Association of University Professors. Not very many schools get that distinction.

Williams College, B.A., King Slow Boy,

various places after.

Grove City is the school that went twice to the US Supreme Court to fight the mandates of the federal govt. and won.

They do not accept federal money so as to be free academically. That is why the unionized college profs do not like them. The students at Grove City receive their student loans from private banks, unsubsidized and unrelated to the federal govt. educational system.

Good Hills are Wanting wrote:You're a first year grad student. You just finished some Marxian

historian, Pete Garrison prob'ly, and so naturally that's what you believe until next month when you get to James Lemon and get convinced that Virginia and Pennsylvania were strongly entrepreneurial and capitalist back in 1740. That'll last until sometime in your second year, then you'll be in here regurgitating Gordon Wood about the

Pre-revolutionary utopia and the capital-forming effects of military mobilization. "Wood drastically underestimates the impact of social distinctions predicated upon wealth, especially inherited wealth..." You got that from "Work in Essex County," Page 421, right? Do you have any thoughts

of your own on the subject or were you just gonna plagiarize the whole book for me?

I don't know a-hole, were you just gonna plagarize the whole damn movie for me? I have a Harvard, Yale, and Cornell education background so shut the f up.

Penn State undergrad

Harvard MBA

Penn PhD

trainfast wrote:

Houston Baptist University, ran cross and track until dropping program.

Yo! Went to Ouachita Baptist, 2007 Undergrad.

Larry Summers wrote:

Penn State undergrad

Harvard MBA

Penn PhD

I call BS.

Bobbagunoush wrote:

Larry Summers wrote:

Penn State undergrad

Harvard MBA

Penn PhD

I call BS.

This from an idiot who mis-spells baba ganoush!! Only on LetsRun!!!

Brown undergrad

Oxford uppergrad

Penn masters

Yale PhD

Indiana University of PA undergrad in Econ

Ran 3 yrs of xc and track

Shippensburg University MBA (currently enrolled)