spoke with a fella after work at the plant., at brewsters. debatin how we can get more stanford like smart kids to iowa like the mcafrey boy who was one of the heisman contenders for 2 years. plays in nfl now with that lady dressed qb, cam newtown?? spit balling there oline plows, we need more kids like that. just not sure how iowa degree stands up to stanford trees. interesting topic to think about. david shaw nees to speak to kirk
what does a degree from iowa mean
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It means that you are paying the isu grad on your porch for the pizza he just delivered
I'm willing to bet hawkeye dan in stormlake hadn't gone to bed yet when he posted this, and won't remember to come back and see if there are any replies.
It means that you met the University requirements of course completion in a designated field to warrant a certificate of accomplishment.
well for one it means you were spared 4 years of misery and anguish wasting away in Lincoln or Ames...
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It means that when you move out to Southern California and are looking for work, you get hired over more qualified people because the guys doing the hiring have degrees from Michigan and Purdue, and spend the entire interview talking B1G football with you.
This plus paid a bunch of money/went into crippling debt to do so.
Nothing more, nothing less. Its impact is determined largely by the perceptions and values of other people who are making decisions affecting your career.
Doesn't matter if you can never buy a house.... The Stanford grads will likely never afford the $1.5M+ housing in the Bay Area.
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I for one enjoyed the OP's Cam Newton reference, worthy of a SAB:
Cam Newton
and
Bugs Bunny
Daum - this smacks of victim mentality to a degree. I got a relatively worthless degree from Iowa that in and of itself wouldn't turn any heads. Wasn't until I got into the job market that I really applied myself. Seriously hard work and a few breaks I retired at 57, four years ago. I don't agree it is worth is determined by others as much as what you can prove its worth.
I was thinking in terms of, if the people who are hiring in your field think having a college degree means something, then it can help you. I don't know if I'm expressing it well. I really just mean that the degree itself doesn't mean all that much. I'm not sure our thinking is that far off here, you're just more coherent than I am.
My degree from Iowa has suited me just fine, but I'm not in the cutthroat corporate world where a degree from an elite school means more.
What amused me after the Rose Bowl halftime was how many of our fans were butthurt by those supposedly "west coast liberals".
Stanford makes Iowa look like San Francisco proper.
Fellowship? Now there is a word I hear every now and then and I really don't know what it means. It seems like I hear it a lot with church going people. Is it a religious word?
