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"Both had the maturity and view on life of someone, well...who didn't go to university" I'm having a hard time understanding what you mean here. What maturity
by haploid 16y ago
"Both had the maturity and view on life of someone, well...who didn't go to university"
I'm having a hard time understanding what you mean here. What maturity and "view" would this be? A lack of "getting drunk at the frat house and banging some sorostitutes" stories?
But in all seriousness, I'd like to know what kind of "maturity" and "view" spending 4 years at a constant party would grant someone, that is somehow superior to the ~12 and ~42 years of actual real world experience that the people you cited likely had?
- ben1040 16y agoWhile you have a good point that it's unfair to claim people who didn't attend university are narrow minded and immature, it isn't any better to say the four year university experience is universally a four year long constant party. I know people with no degree who are extremely successful, practical minded people. Most people I know would also recall university as four years of hard work with little time left for partying.
- timurlenk 16y agoI seem to have offended some readers and I apologize for that. Personally I come form a different background (eastern Europe) and at the time i went to university it meant working your ass off on projects and papers, working for professors that seemed unreasonable and obtuse and building relationships with colleagues and professors. That time did give us a certain maturity and taught as an approach to people and work. Little did we know, the people we ended up working with were even more unreasonable and narrow-minded. Of course, your mileage may vary.