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>> one thing college teaches you is to avoid assuming most people are like yourself. > That's like the one thing that it doesn't teach you. Huh? You didn't ge
by throwaway613834 9y ago
>> one thing college teaches you is to avoid assuming most people are like yourself.
> That's like the one thing that it doesn't teach you.
Huh? You didn't get to know people who weren't like yourself?
- mikulas_florek 9y agoSince the people there chose the same path as me, they were in fact more similar to me (similar demographics, hobbies, ...).
- throwaway613834 9y ago"Same path" as in... "K-12, then college"? By that standard, when you start working, everyone has had the same path as you, too -- "education, then work". And how can you even say "more similar" without specifying more similar than what?
- mikulas_florek 9y agoMore similar than the most of other people I met/know. I studied CS. When I started working, there are (compared to my CS studies) people from different colleges, or without higher education at all, artists, HR, managers, ... They are much more diverse than people from my college.
- throwaway613834 9y agoYou say "compared to my CS studies" to argue your point, then conclude with "than people from my college"? Was there nobody but CS majors in your college? Or did you just never take the opportunity to go meet them when there were tons of them in your college?
- anotherbrownguy 9y agoI have met more people who aren't like myself outside college.
- throwaway613834 9y ago> I have met more people who aren't like myself outside college. And this supposedly implies "That's like the one thing that [college] doesn't teach you"?
- anotherbrownguy 9y agoThat was a hyperbolic response to a hyperbolic claim.
- mrobins 9y agoThese are both more "I..." comments. When "I" went to college "my" experience was X so therefore... Assumption: experiences in college are incredibly diverse based on multiple factors