<p>Also 102190, the “prestige” and “impressiveness” thing you start with: without sounding too arrogant let me say this: it’s mostly outsiders who fixate on it. </p>
<p>Those of us with degrees from very select universities don’t really give a flip. We don’t care about USNWR. Whether a co-worker has a degree from Cornell or Amherst or Yale or University of Arizona, we tend not to be overly impressed or feel overly superior. The day we stepped into New Haven, we were thrust into an environment where whatever our HS achievements, we were extremely mediocre given the excellence of the student body around us. Humbling is par for the course. I’ve found that many of us took that same attitude into the working world after as well. And we’ve all experienced that the “prestige” thing is an empty suit. Been there, done that. An Ivy-esque degree is no magic bullet to health, long lasting marriage, satisfying parenthood, financial guarantees. Do you think we don’t wash our clothes, walk our pets, feed our kids, change lightbulbs, nurture our elderly parents just like the rest of the unwashed masses? </p>
<p>tsk tsk tsk</p>