We should not define one's success by lifetime earnings but rather one's education

<p>nychomie, it astounds me the time you have to post on CC. My kids went to very demanding colleges and were heavily involved in time consuming ECs at their colleges and achieved high grades and would have not had the kind of time you appear to have to pot on CC (admittedly, they would not have the inclination but I do not fault you for your interest in CC).</p>

<p>Thumper…thinking the same thing…or, oops, he’s caught in conflicting posts and is compelled to offer an explanation.</p>

<p>I went to an elite prep school, go to Princeton (but got into Harvard as well).</p>

<p>I mean sure I can admit I made some of those threads just for fun. Even some of this is just for fun though I do actually believe in what I’m saying most of the time.</p>

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I’ve literally written 8 pages of a paper today while posting on CC. Not hard.</p>

<p>It really doesn’t take much time to post on here. High school seniors do it all the time despite managing crazy workloads. Have you seen the people posting in the various Chances and College Admissions forums?</p>

<p>It isn’t the time spent that really baffles me- it is the interest.</p>

<p>Neither of my kids spent much time online when they were in high school ( & none on CC) & for as far as college goes, my daughter who attended a top LAC had so much work related to her studies that she didn’t even take a magazine to read on the train, she had to read papers for school.</p>

<p>Same with other child, she is on the newspaper, as well as a demanding courseload & when she has free time, I imagine she prefers to spend it with her friends, exercising or playing guitar.</p>

<p>nychomie…just because you say you go to Princeton, doesn’t make it so. Your credibility is shot as you have presented different stories. I feel quite certain you do not attend Princeton. I am also feeling you went to a prep school prior to college but not necessarily one of the “elite” ones. I can’t take what you write seriously as you have changed your stories on here. You may say some threads or posts were “in fun” but the problem is, who knows which are the truth.</p>

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<p>Besides the fact that my kids would not have the inclination to be on CC, they could not have done what you just posted. Let me see…D2 went to classes from 9-6 (yes, that’s what her program entailed) and then she went to ECs from 6:30 PM to 10:30 PM (some nights later) and on Saturdays and Sundays too. She would have to write papers starting at 11 PM many nights. No time to write a paper while doing something else for several hours. D1 went to classes but also went to her ECs daily (some days starting at 6 AM) for several hours and was away all weekend to her ECs out of town over several months of the school year. Would not have the time to be online. Neither had the time in HS and since college do not have the time (either in grad school or the intense schedules they keep with their careers).</p>

<p>Are you in ECs at college?</p>

<p>Well, that’s fine you don’t believe me. It makes me more anonymous, which I prefer anyway :)</p>

<p>Yes, I’m heavily involved in ECs. To be honest, I’m not on here that much. I had like 3 really active threads and that’s it. In my 2 years of posting here, I only have 193 posts.</p>

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<p>Me too…and I also graduated from medical school at Johns Hopkins and Law School at Harvard. Oh…and did I tell you I was a first cousin to the Queen of England? I own 6 houses, I would own seven but I really don’t want to own a house on Antactica. But I have one on all the other continents.</p>

<p>Geez, I pointed out back in post 59 that I don’t think this guy is for real.</p>

<p>I wonder if he is the same character who used to pretend to be a student at the college my son attends. That one took on the persona of a wealthy southern prep school graduate who thought it was still the 19th century.</p>

<p>Honestly, I don’t care if you think I’m a high school student or 30-year-old garbage man. The beauty of my posts is that they stand regardless. Even when I was joking, I left many of you parents totally stumped and dumbfounded, which I think is funny. And let’s not forget, many of the same people keep coming back and entertaining my threads.</p>

<p>nychomie, do you realize that the main reason people do not believe you is that you have changed your “story” multiple times? </p>

<p>For example, now you are IN college but back in Sept. you had graduated college and wanted to work in Italy. That is one of many examples. Yes, you want to be anonymous and this is an anonymous forum. However, you have lost all credibility. I feel certain you don’t attend Princeton and there are people who thrive on anonymous forums as they can hide behind various personas or even use multiple personas on a forum. </p>

<p>I have a lot of posts on CC and one way that people can ascertain some validity of the posts is if a member has a consistent story over time. </p>

<p>Something to think about (or for others who are reading to think about). :D</p>

<p>I’m very well-aware my story is not consistent. However, I’m not concerned about that as clearly, I was joking in some of the threads. I could have easily changed a few details and made everything consistent but so what? Like I said, I don’t need to be believable. If you don’t think I attend Princeton, then good and fine :)</p>

<p>OK, so your excuse is that on some threads you were “joking.” Not sure which threads those were. However, you started a thread back in Sept. and I was unfamiliar with you as a member at that time and put a bunch of time into responding to the thread inquiry you had in order to assist you. You started out with this:

You were asking about getting a job in Italy. My own kid has worked overseas several times. It did not seem like a joking thread. Am I right? However, you claimed to have a DEGREE. Now, you say you are a current college student. </p>

<p>Which is it?
Do you see how credibility is lost in such instances?</p>

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Oh, nonsense. It takes a better garbage man/Princeton student/■■■■■ than you are to “dumbfound” this crowd. Really, shouldn’t you crack open a book or something? I thought there was a pretty tough workload at Ivy League schools.</p>

<p>No one’s posts “stand regardless” when they have no credibility as a poster. And you have no credibility when you simply make stuff up.</p>

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I don’t care and I’m not interested. I’m just trying to refute your theory which is full of flaws.</p>

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<p>True, that I’ve not gone to any of the college on your elite college list so certainly in your term I’m not successful.</p>

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<p>I’ve not seen it but please do post links.</p>

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<p>I was just trying to extend nychomie’s hypothesis.</p>

<p>Since nychomie indicates in his hypothesis:

  • Elite college - success in life</p>

<p>So from the negate of it

  • Non Elite college - not much success in life</p>

<p>Since I’ve the data that proves

  • A large % Prep High School matriculates to nychomie Elite college
  • A very small % Prep High School go to Non Elite college</p>

<p>Then it should be easy for nychomie to see

  • It’s the prep high school - elite college - success</p>

<p>because a large % of public high school do go to non elite college that doesn’t constitute success in nychomie hypothesis.</p>

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<p>I really don’t care about what you do and what you post on other threads. I just have problem with consistency of your thoughts on this subject. </p>

<p>You either have a flawed hypothesis or you need to extend it to prep high school.</p>

<p>I dont think I can get through all the posts, but this first part seems so ironic to me, I just have to respond…</p>

<p>"Why are parents so obsessed with defining success by lifetime earnings? couldn’t care less…</p>

<p>I believe with this new definition of “success,” the top universities list goes something like this:…</p>

<p>Brown, Caltech, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Duke, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, MIT, Northwestern, Penn, Princeton, Stanford, UChicago, WashU, Yale and so forth…</p>

<p>Who the heck is PAYING for that? The grown ups who accept the need for stuff their kids want? How about paying for the stuff that THEY want? Horrors! The stuff “society” wants?</p>

<p>Signed ; HBCU merit scholy grad paying full freight for her top 20 attending spawn and majoring in English…instead of retiring…</p>

<p>Success (as measured by any yardstick) is overrated.</p>