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Old November 18th, 2008 #16
Mike Parker
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Originally Posted by Alex Linder View Post
You pay 50k for a portion of a year at Duke, you come out, you know - what? Probably 80 things that aren't true, and certainly not how to weld.
This may get interesting. In recent years the answer was a ticket to a high-paying career on Wall Street. What will be this year's fallback? Compete with H1B dotheads for technical jobs? What with Obongo, we may see another of those contrived waves of idealism, with white kids teaching in urban schools and flocking to "NGOs." But unless you're already rich, how do you justify $200K for that?