<p>As long as About Time is talking about columbia or offering advice, she's great. It's these rants against other posters that I worry about.</p>
<p>I don't feel like giving About Time the time of day and responding to every asinine factual assertion and personal attack against me, but I will comment on her assertion that having only a Columbia bachelors is going to make you an unsuccessful cubicle worker for the rest of your life. Note, for example, Savio Tung's lack of a graduate degree and his successful career and coveted seat on Columbia's board of Trustees:</p>
<p>...which goes to my point that a top bachelor's degree is fundamentally different in value than an average one. by virtue of graduating from (say) Princeton, or MIT, you immediately get your foot in the door of a lot more interviews, get a lot more immediate professional respect defaulted to you, and have an alumni network that can be a big resource.</p>
<p>Mr. Tung is an example of how whereas with other schools you may need a PhD to "get where you want to be", that unless that place is a professorship, a bachelor's degree may be all you actually need if you get it from a place like Columbia.</p>