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I Am The Walrus |
Not sure why they think that way. I'm only in my first semester and the academics seem fine and the campus is beautiful but not sure why they think it's so elite.
Damn. Didn't know the school had such a reputation.
I'm sure it won't rub off on me. I consider myself to be a pretty humble dude. I said MBA just to give some smugness back to them and to let them know I've been there, done that and got the t-shirt. I would much rather make friends than a list of people I'd never want to see again.
That's why I'm sticking it out for now because of the reputation the school has. I doubt I could ever bring sanity to a group of people like this. Their heads are so far up their ass that they don't even smell their own shit anymore. _____________ | |||
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Needs a bigger boat |
I went to UCF in the 80's and played in a couple of bands that played a lot of gigs in Winter Park. The Rollins students were a bunch of spoiled, insufferable douchebags back then. It would appear things haven't changed much. MOO means NO! Be the comet! | |||
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Irksome Whirling Dervish |
At least Arc isn't in your class. Then you'd really have someone to complain about. | |||
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Hey...don't feel bad, Edmond. When you finish and get out in the work force, your next thread will be "Appears I work with a bunch of pompous, arrogant people [insert place of employement]" "If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24 | |||
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I Am The Walrus |
That's what will probably end up happening. These people will end up being the same group of people but in the work world. _____________ | |||
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I Am The Walrus |
At least I'd have someone to talk to about guns. These people would probably freak out at the word gun. _____________ | |||
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After getting to know this recruiter woman in your class, do you have any further questions why I hold these people in utter contempt, and classify them as the most worthless group in any corporation? And trust me, she's not unique, or the exception, in any way. Funny piece of history. I played baseball for Florida Southern College in Lakeland, and we used to play Rollins a couple times every year. I can't remember a single time during the three years I was at Southern that we didn't totally dominate Rollins' team on the field. Gave me great pleasure to return to Orlando and beat them so badly all their fans had left by the 7th inning. ----------------------------- Guns are awesome because they shoot solid lead freedom. Every man should have several guns. And several dogs, because a man with a cat is a woman. Kurt Schlichter | |||
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I Am The Walrus |
Oh I have an even better one for you. MBA classmate of mine works for Deloitte in Virginia; he's been referring me into jobs for them for quite a while. He even went as far as to e-mail and speak to a veteran recruiter. Back in May, he gets in touch with someone out of Cleveland and he says he will have the recruiter in Lake Mary call me. The guy must have had some pull because she called me the day he said she would. She calls me, I go in and meet with a team, go around the facility. She tells me, "your resume is great, we can definitely use you in our firm. We have a manning conference next month (June) and I'll have a better idea of where we will have vacancies. June comes and goes, I contact her 2nd week in July and ask her what came of the manning conference. Tells me it will be July until she knows. July comes and goes, contact her in August and she says, "I'm continuing to push your credentials." I'm keeping my friend updated and after the September and October e-mails of the same shit, he gets in touch with her and asks her what's going on. He had referred me into a position back in September and I never heard anything. He told her he referred me into a position and sent her a link with the job ID with me Cc'd. She asks me if I applied for the position and tells him that she's not the recruiter for the position. So why didn't she do something to help her organization by referring my friend or me to the recruiter so we could contact him? Again, lazy fuck. But then I guess Deloitte is seen as some elite organization that's so forward thinking that people are willing to get pissed on waiting years to get hired. Not this guy, got a rejection e-mail from them and decided that I will no longer pursue any positions with them. Again, I ask what the point of an internal recruiter is? At least an external recruiter has incentive to get an applicant placed because they would get paid. This whole shit fest has me thinking if I really want to live in Orlando. There are obviously good jobs here because the prices of homes are insane, especially the ones I used to build for Lennar. Homes were starting at $400,000. I know not everyone can be a business owner, doctor or lawyer. So where are these good jobs at? But these days it's about "networking", can't just apply and let your resume do the talking. _____________ | |||
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Do what you have to do to finish that degree and then use it to your advantage. It sounds like Rollins has been pretty consistent since I was dealing with those students in the 80s and 90s. The vast majority have a very inflated sense of self. However that paper you get from the place does have value compared to other institutions. The reputation of Rollins College opens up doors. Chuck Life's tough...tougher if you're stupid (AKA "cwr" on SIGforum [email account issues]) | |||
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More persistent than capable |
I used to go by Rollins all the time, on my bicycle in the early 60's. Winter Park was always much more sophisticated/upscale than the big Zero. Lick the lollipop of mediocrity once and you suck forever. | |||
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I Am The Walrus |
How so if I don't act like a pompous, arrogant ass like the others there? _____________ | |||
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Because Rollins has the reputation of being a prestigious institution with HR departments and employment recruiters. They don't know yet that you are a normal person and not an entitled ass. :-) Chuck Life's tough...tougher if you're stupid (AKA "cwr" on SIGforum [email account issues]) | |||
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goodheart |
Somehow I think you'll find a way. _________________________ “ What all the wise men promised has not happened, and what all the damned fools said would happen has come to pass.”— Lord Melbourne | |||
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I will second the MBA after my last name comment. That statement is pompous as all hell. I have an MBA and an MS in Cybersecurity; there is no way I would ever bring that into a conversation in the way you did. Just do your work and learn and don't worry about what other people are doing. | |||
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The Ice Cream Man |
So I’m going to sound like an a-hole, but as a business owner/lawyer... Unless that MBA is a masters in accounting and you’re a CPA, I don’t care. No one does. It’s only useful if you have the experience to prove you can manage people. Maybe some use if it’s in finance, especially if it’s paired with a JD. As for the school you mentioned- there are lots of, especially regional, “prestigious “ schools, no one cares about, that are expensive. It might help you network locally, but you want to impress someone with a business degree, not accounting, and this pains me as an Aggie, it pretty much has to be Wharton, Princeton, USC, Harvard or Columbia. Economics from University of Chicago is also impressive. Otherwise, I’m presuming you got a party degree - not a bad thing, if you also took sports management courses, and seem well-socialized and intelligent and someone who will be nice to see Monday mornings, but the degree is irrelevant | |||
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Go ahead punk, make my day |
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Go ahead punk, make my day |
Do what everyone else does - get your credentials, then move wherever you can get a job that will allow you to gain experience / grow / move up. | |||
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^^^^^^^ Agreed now my two cents. You are no more likely to get a corner office with a private degree than a state sponsored school. No one cares where I got my degree. They notice the diploma on the wall make a remark and go on. It does open doors with fellow alums and I get preferential treatment with Football tickets. In my area the folks with the Ole Miss degree get some perks, but the best engineers go to Miss. State and not Tulane or Ole Miss. GA tech is in demand here, but a chemical engineering degree with top grades from Alabama opens doors because they are in demand now. | |||
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אַרְיֵה |
That's a really weird coincidence. I know a few Rollins graduate students who were telling me the other day about this asshole Army captain who thinks he's hot shit because he has an MBA. הרחפת שלי מלאה בצלופחים | |||
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Man Once Child Twice |
You heard that too? | |||
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