<p>We all entered high school with dreams of getting into the most prestigious universities in the nation. As our high school careers come to a close, we begin to realize how unlikely that dream now is. Is anybody else just feeling liberating after resigning themselves to the local university? I am now 100% stress free :). To hell with Harvard and the Ivy League, Big State U here I come!!</p>
<p>Besides, there’s always grad school prestige to look forward to :)</p>
<p>Haha actually no, not at all.</p>
<p>I guess. I mean, whenever I thought of college in like Middle School I thought of moving far away. But now that I’m in High School, been in it for a while, I can’t see myself moving away from North Carolina where my family and friends are. So, while I wouldn’t call it a vanquished “dream” necessariily, it is a realization that I’ve made. I never really wanted to go to an ivy league school, and I still don’t. Soo, I’m gooood, there’s really good schools in the state anyway.</p>
<p>Not really, no offence but if you couldn’t get the credentials to go to an ivy you should just shoot yourself.</p>
<p>In all reality, I was obsessed with Harvard. But that’s stupid.</p>
<p>I like your spirit OP. yeah, I once wanted to go to a school where the kids talked about salamanders at breakfast. But i’m ok if they don’t now.</p>
<p>Am I the only one who finds this thread kind of sad</p>
<p>Just go where you wanna</p>
<p>@goldcrewetc, I do too. </p>
<p>Guys, thousands of kids go to the ivies each year. It’s very possible. Stop lying to yourselves that ivies aren’t super amazing…they are.</p>
<p>^ </p>
<p>You only look at the “thousands” of kids that get in, but what about the “hundreds of thousands” who do NOT. Common confirmation bias, ignore the other evidence.</p>
<p>Its all about environment</p>
<p>Look at Christopher Langan. Highest IQ deveoped his own theory on the universe, yet he couldn’t publish it in an academic journal because he never got to an Ivy because of his environment - He got beaten by his parent and had to work in an assortment of odd jobs (bouncer) - so he never went to that oh-so-Ivy</p>
<p>Btw, 109111, judging from your other posts about wanting to join the CC facebook group, almost with a childlike desire, your not going to an Ivy. …I’m in a bad mood and post #3 ticked me</p>
<p>Yuppie, you’ve just ticked me off. I’m not even going to begin to pick apart your post.</p>
<p>Yea this thread is a bit pathetic, but honestly am I any more pathetic than the Ivy League strivers who cannot sleep at night because of that B in freshmen biology? LOOOL</p>
<p>^good point</p>
<p>there’s nothing wrong with setting high standards for yourself</p>
<p>some people just can’t handle the stress i guess</p>
<p>Then 109111,</p>
<p>I shall declare myself triumphant and stand high and mighty on my chair. It feels good to be a winner.</p>
<p>C’mon, now I KNOW you are buuurnning with ticked-offedness. Grrrr come at me</p>
<p>Yuppie, oh yuppie. it’s really hard for me to even begin to roast someone who has the name yuppie.</p>
<p>109111…</p>
<p>You go a prestigious college (an ivy). you manage to (somehow) graduate. I don’t know what you want to do with your life - maybe you don’t know - but lets assume you get the perfect job. You have very nice friends, and maybe a family, live comfortably, and so on. </p>
<p>The story doesn’t end in paradise though. After all of this happens it passes. You start to get old, very old, and sick. And your life is over before it even really began, or at least that is how it seems. It doesn’t really scare you though. Deep down, maybe it does. But you are around people who care about you. You find a way to accept the end, to repel the anxious thoughts. How hard this is depends on this person. Probably you are not devoutly religious, unfortunately.</p>
<p>Maybe this is comforting or maybe it isn’t, but one thing that is clear, I think, which is that the prestigious education is largely irrelevant, or maybe it is relevant, but it’s not particularly important.</p>
<p>^In the grand scheme of things, sure an ivy education isn’t that important. But you can’t have a grand scheme without first having little parts to make it up (like a car engine). For the time being I’m working on finely tuning the piece of the engine called education, and I see nothing wrong with attempting to build a Ferrari rather than taking the easy, secure route and building a dodge pinto for myself or what have you.</p>
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<p>Erm, no. That’s not why he couldn’t get published, he couldn’t get published because he had no credentials. Also, I doubt his theory would’ve stand up to scrutiny, this is the same guy that’ claiming he can mathematically prove gods existence. I’m sure in his brains, his got numbers floating but in reality they’re meaningless. Reminds me of that 8 year old Indian surgeon who believed he had the cure for cancer, wrote a bunch of equations that were floating in his head but when examined they were, you guessed it meaningless. He was arrogant, that’s what stopped him. Had he not dropped out and went into research or something, he could have got his work published. You can’t expect a scientific journal to give him a chance just cause his got some high IQ. Researchers who dedicate their whole lives to their research, fail to get their work published.</p>