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[mr_bad_example]

Why was I reticent to go back for A PhD, again? Oh, that's right. Because of people like this.

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[kleric.livejournal.com]

HIPPIES!

[gismonda.livejournal.com]

My favorite bit is this:

"Students who work hardest would be surrounded by similarly ambitious and intelligent peers; as for teachers, their time could be spent concentrating on exceptional students who want to learn, rather than wasting resources grading the sub-par work of students who didn't care enough to do a good job in the first place."

So wait a minute. How are the teachers supposed to discern who is excelling and who is doing sub-par work? Oh yeah...testing and grades. And didn't those people doing the sub-par work also pay the same tuition fees as everyone else. Yeah, thought so. What!

[eevilyounggirl.livejournal.com]

Yeah. In theory, the really sub-par ones don't even get into universities, and the ones who do sub-par work are either lazy or in over their heads.

Don't let smarmy undergrads who think they've got the world in their palm keep you from getting a PHD.

The moral is: never trust someone named "Ailee."