Odd experience...

[PhiPsiRuss]

Originally posted by Txsurfinwaves
B. Correct me if I'm wrong, but didnt Bill Gates drop out of college?

Yeah, but he went a community college. Oh, what's the name of that school? Oh yeah, Harvard.

[TigerLilly]

Originally posted by russellwarshay
Yeah, but he went a community college. Oh, what's the name of that school? Oh yeah, Harvard.

Huh? You have me confused b/c it sounds like you're calling Harvard a community college...

[moe.ron]

Originally posted by Txsurfinwaves
A. So your telling me that a guy who graduated from *insert community college here* is going to beat a guy who graduated from Yale with top honors just because he has social skills?

B. Correct me if I'm wrong, but didnt Bill Gates drop out of college?

B. Yup, he drop out of MIT. Though, to get into MIT, you have to be very smart in the first place.

[sugar and spice]

Kath got into MIT.

[PhiPsiRuss]

Originally posted by TigerLilly
Huh? You have me confused b/c it sounds like you're calling Harvard a community college...

I'm joking.

And he did go to Harvard, unless this article on the Microsoft web site is wrong.

[moe.ron]

Originally posted by sugar and spice
Kath got into MIT.

Who is Kath?

ETA: I stand corrected, Bill went to Harvard.

[sugar and spice]

Geeky Penguin.

Also I think y'all are missing the point.

In order to be wildly successful -- like Bill Gates style successful -- you generally have to have both great social skills and incredible intelligence. It's not a question of either/or.

However, if you only have one or the other, you're probably going to be better off with intelligence. It's a lot easier to make a living by being intelligent than it is to make a living off of having social skills.

[moe.ron]

Originally posted by sugar and spice
Geeky Penguin.

Duh, I'm having a momentary lapse of reason. That happen to be a very underated Pink Floyd album.

[HotDamnImAPhiMu]

annnnnnnd apparently also a very underrated member of GC.

Congratu(late)lations, Kath! Sounds like GPhiB was lucky to get you (and not MIT.)

[Senusret I]

Originally posted by Colonist
No.

One question which school do you attend in DC?

I am an alumnus of Georgetown University. I also did graduate work at American.

[Colonist]

Originally posted by Txsurfinwaves
A. So your telling me that a guy who graduated from *insert community college here* is going to beat a guy who graduated from Yale with top honors just because he has social skills?

No, but I will tell you a friendly likable, popular guy graduating say from University of XYZ (Insert random decent state school here IE Oklahoma, Texas, Minnesota, Georgia, etc.) will do better than a socially inept guy graduating from Yale or Harvard.

[PhiPsiRuss]

Originally posted by Colonist
No, but I will tell you a friendly likable, popular guy graduating say from University of XYZ (Insert random decent state school here IE Oklahoma, Texas, Minnesota, Georgia, etc.) will do better than a socially inept guy graduating from Yale or Harvard.

Due to the way that admissions work at Harvard and Yale, only people who are well rounded (unless they are the children of very wealthy alumni) get in. Your premise, with regard to these institutions is highly flawed.

[Colonist]

Originally posted by russellwarshay
Due to the way that admissions work at Harvard and Yale, only people who are well rounded (unless they are the children of very wealthy alumni) get in. Your premise, with regard to these institutions is highly flawed.

My friend's younger brother is for all intents and purposes the sterotypical nerd he goes to Yale in high school all he did was study and debate and the kid looked like he'd never seen the light of day and couldn't catch a ball to save his life. He was not remotely well-rounded.

Note: A number of kids from my high school went Ivy League and they were well-rounded to some extent HOWEVER I merely used a Yale student as an example in my previous post.

[exlurker]

Originally posted by Colonist
. . . for all intents and purposes the sterotypical nerd he goes to Yale in high school all he did was study and debate and the kid looked like he'd never seen the light of day and couldn't catch a ball to save his life. He was not remotely well-rounded.
. . . .

That's just disgusting! Obviously the Yale admissions people totally forged the athleticism videos and on-the-spot ball catching tests for that guy. Must have been another one of those years when Yale was really hurting for applicants. To be fair, of course, once that huge error had been made, Yale might have felt that Connecticut laws prevented them from having the Yale University Police shoot him on sight. Gov'mint interference, that's what I call it!

You would think that at least the Yale faculty would weed him out -- don't they have a bunch of Nobel Prize winners, and isn't there a stringent ball catching requirement for all of the Nobel Prizes? Even if the school is desperate for warm bodies in its undergrad programs, certain standards must be upheld.

[AlphaPhiBubbles]

Originally posted by exlurker
Even if the school is desperate for warm bodies in its undergrad programs, certain standards must be upheld.

This thread is making me laugh more and more....it started out as a topic about some "dorky" fraternity and now we're discussing where Bill Gates went to college.

Anyway, I'll take the socially inept freakshow dork doctor that can cure whatever it is that ails me over the super hot athletic charming doctor who couldn't tell me whether i had a cold or cancer.

Although I might ask Doctor #2 out on a date

There is a lot of propaganda and underhandedness (as well as money) that sometimes goes on when it comes to people's success so you never know what the success could be attributed to. Intelligence will ALWAYS get you farther in life because it means you have substance and can give something to the world. And I'm talking about real life here, not high school where the kids that study get their lunch money stolen by the jocks.