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There’s a professor of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard who only has a high school diploma[1]. Needless to say he’s been published and cited many times ove

• withinboredom 3y ago
  I don't know whether you're mocking them or being supportive of them or just stating a fact. Either way, education level has no bearing on subject knowledge. I know more about how computers, compilers, and software algorithms work than most post-docs and professors that I've run into in those subjects. Am I smarter than them? Nope. Do I know as many fancy big words as them? Nope. Do I care about results and communicating complex topics to normal people? Yep. Do I care more about making the company money than chasing some bug-bear to go on my resume? Yep. I fucking hate school and have no desire to ever go back. I can't put up with the bullshit, so I dropped out; I just never stopped studying and I don't need a piece of paper to affirm that fact.
  • withinboredom 3y ago
    To the people downvoting, at least rebuttal.