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This college has been characterized in various places as being "prestigious", but I can't imagine any context where learning that someone is a recent graduate w
by prvc 4y ago
This college has been characterized in various places as being "prestigious", but I can't imagine any context where learning that someone is a recent graduate would be a positive signal. Yet, this notion persists.
- userbinator 4y agoIt is prestigious to those who believe in its ideology.
- lotsofpulp 4y agoAll colleges are prestigious, or pay others to call them prestigious.
- astrange 4y agoThe music school is prestigious, and if you're going to the symphony you probably aren't going to learn the musicians' politics.
- prvc 4y ago> if you're going to the symphony you probably aren't going to learn the musicians' politics You'd be surprised.
- pyuser583 4y agoI know a graduate of Oberlin who is a wonderful person. Bright, publicly dedicated, wonderful.
- josephcsible 4y agoNobody is denying that wonderful people who graduated from Oberlin exist. The point is that they're wonderful despite that, not because of it.
- pyuser583 4y agoSorry, to be clear, this person ascribed their good qualities to Oberlin. She is a teacher who meant a great deal to myself and many other students.
- uejfiweun 4y agoI went to a similarly indoctrinated, "prestigious" school, and I think I turned out all right. I think an underrated benefit of going to some ideological powder keg of a school like this is that you learn not to stir the pot. You learn to be careful about what sets people off, and I think it's a skill that has helped me become more of a positive presence on my teams. But yeah, if you're seeing that some potential hire is deep in this type of cancellation and stuff, then that would certainly be a negative signal.
- whythre 4y agoNo disrespect to you, friend, but a lot of what you said could apply to the mentality of an abused spouse. ‘Just don’t say the wrong thing, don’t set them off…”
- tptacek 4y agoIf you don't know what Oberlin is, you can just ask, rather than stand here in puzzlement about why an elite private college is regarded as prestigious.
- prvc 4y ago>why an elite private college is regarded as prestigious That's begging the question. What intrinsic quality, apart from tuition costs, makes it "elite"?