we are just an investment toy

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Swedish degrees do not show GPAs. Swedish and Irish degrees do not show class ranks. (S.

Or they start gigabuck companies.

John Larkin Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center Lunatic Fringe Electronics

Nor do US degrees (though various "honors" indications may be indicated -- /summa cum laude/ etc.).

GPA and rank are such relative terms that they have little practical meaning (one of my classmates was *12* when he entered school; do you think anyone even questioned his rank or GPA on graduation?)

The choice of school is usually more significant; not as an indication of YOUR preference but rather THEIR admissions criteria.

And, all of this fades pretty quickly once you have some job experience.

But, in many cases, Mommy & Daddy are footing the bill and want *some* indication of your progress.

Very few people start gigabuck companies. You may look like a drop-out when you are doing it, but the education process isn't focussed on imparting the skills required to do it - part because we don't really have a clear idea what they are, and partly because if you need the information now, you aren't going to wait around until the scheduled lectures impart it.

Makes sense. There are a finite number of gigabucks.

John Larkin Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center Lunatic Fringe Electronics

John Larkin does like snipping the posts he is pretending to respond to until he's got something left to which he can produce a snappy - if irrelevant - response.

I snipped nothing in my reply just above. You snipped a lot.

And what's wrong with snappy?

John Larkin Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center Lunatic Fringe Electronics

You snipped most of what I'd had to say. I snipped only what had prompted you to say what you did.

When it is devoted to make you look clever - if only in your own eyes - and ignores the point I was making, it is a bit irritating.

My proposition was that somebody who drops out of college to start a mega-buck company is a very different (and much rarer) kind of individual than the individuals who drop out of college and sponge off their parents.

The one's whose hoped-for mega-buck company turns into a micro-buck company do tend to dig a hole to hide in for while, but they will only sponge off their parents until they come up with some new idea, which may be less ambitious but may be more practicable - failure is a lot more educational than gazing at a bedroom wall.