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[copperpoint]

I swear I had a lot to write about and now it's all gone. I'm getting old (31 in a few weeks), and losing my memory. I had kind of a shitty week. I don't normally get all bent out of shape over political things, but between Scott Brown and the supreme court ruling about corporate spending during elections, I'm not very thrilled with the US right

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[unkempt]

Miss you too. It's nice to see you writing on here. I don't want to think about what my life would have been like without Hartwick. Doubly so going back for alumni weekend a couple years back and realizing that I was a part of the group I didn't always necessarily feel a part of. Really awesome. We should make a plan to go to alumni weekend one of these years, en masse.

[inthespaces]

I wonder some times what life would be like if I had never gone to Hartwick, and I was only there a year!

[erikkmobius]

Robert Burns was 8 feet tall and breathed fire.

Yeah, I've been thinking similarly in regards to higher education. I mean, a college degree these days is a plumbers license; you need one to prove you can turn a wrench, but it doesn't matter much where you learned it. For me, though, the thought lines extend to things like Master's Degrees, etc. Going so far as, "Do I even need one? What do I REALLY want to do?"

That said, the Hartwick experience was beyond indescribable (hell, I met my wife!). So... I think the moral is to tell you students to go somewhere that resonates with them. The price tag and the fancy name don't matter (except, say, in rare cases where they already know exactly what type of academic research they want to pursue until they die... then having a fancy title MIGHT help); its the complete experience, the growth, that's important. Hope that helps.

Miss you, you big surly Jew.