Topics regarding Inverted Pyramids Of Doom
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LOL, did you go there? Or you can confirm that you don't hire people from there?
When I used to be part of the Dallas country club scene, people would talk about UT and I'd be like "You do realize that I'm from NY and even worked in academia and in the northeast, while people assume that Texas has universities, no one knows of any. UT is completely unheard of." They were all dumbfounded that A&E is at least known for its horrendous fire hazards and being a party school for engineers and SMU is famous as one of the top grad schools in the south. But other than SMU, no Texas school has a reputation outside of Texas at all.
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I would say Texas A&M is worst than UT, mostly because there is a strange cult-like allegiance between there graduates. I've known people that would only hire other Texas A&M graduates.
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@brianlittlejohn said:
I would say Texas A&M is worst than UT, mostly because there is a strange cult-like allegiance between there graduates. I've known people that would only hire other Texas A&M graduates.
I didn't suggest that it had a good reputation outside of Texas, only that it had one and at least people in engineering circles know its name. Texas, just as a region, has an educational reputation similar to Alabama and Mississippi. At least forty states would see any Texas education, no matter where it was from, as bad without further research. Texas' secondary school education reputation is so bad (even though it might be better now than places like NY) that most of the country just assumes that any college there would just have to be doing what the rest of the country does for high school. And, from what I've seen at both levels, this seems very likely to be true.
These days Texas has improved their education a lot and the rest of the country has dropped a lot, especially places like NY that used to shine, so they are likely all on parity. But from a reputation standpoint, it's not good and will likely last for a long time yet.
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When I was looking at grad schools for musicology, I seriously was looking at SMU in Dallas as a top contender.
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I just have a dislike of all secondary education for the most part... It is not accomplishing what it needs to, enormously expensive, and putting alot of people deeply in debt.
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@brianlittlejohn said:
I just have a dislike of all secondary education for the most part... It is not accomplishing what it needs to, enormously expensive, and putting alot of people deeply in debt.
Although, the more people that do it, the better the comparative benefits for the rest of us. So while it hurts them, it is purely voluntary and benefits everyone else. So while it is generally evil and bad for the people doing it it is a lot like the lotto. It's obviously and clear and no one is hiding the fact that it is bad (almost no one) and it is only promoted based on obvious fallacies that cannot possibly be true. And no one is forced to go, it is completely at the discretion of the students. So that it is bad for them is no one's problem but their own. They are adults and responsible for their choices just like everyone else. That university and the lotto both such money from those that use them and funnel it to those that don't is fine, because no one is forced into it. Just another tax on those that like to gamble against the odds.
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There is alot of US education that needs to changed. Everything the school districts do is to get money from the state. They don't provide a real education anymore, they just teach to tests that you have to pass, beyond that the school districts don't care if you learn anything else except that you can't be successful if you don't go to college. That was rammed down my throat since 3rd grade.
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I think that the real issue is attitudes about education. People perceive it as not having value and don't care if their local schools do what they need to do to teach the kids, so why would the schools care? People see college as something that kids have to do and don't care if it doesn't have value to the students and the students keep voting with their wallets that they agree, so why would colleges change?
The people who really care skip school, go to school elsewhere or figure out some alternative. The rich and the affluent and the flexible can find other means of educating their kids and having everyone else voluntarily fall behind is in their interest. Do they want those people to get bad educations? No. But it isn't hurting them so how likely are they to fight hard to fix things for people who like things the way that they are?
Until Americans care about education and stop the culture of worshipping stupidity things will always remain as they are.
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No details on this one yet. They've had an IPOD created on Windows software RAID. Looking to move to Vmware and that's going to be impossible so they have to make a change. Will have to see what direction they go.
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Sadly another one. The IT person doesn't seem to mind.
So maybe they have a reason..
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