AcePylut -> RE: The Good The Bad & The Indifferent (12/11/2017 8:05:38 PM)
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I had a colleague in college, sophomore year of an Aerospace Engineering degree - that couldn't point to a pulley in a picture of a gear mechanism... but he knew the math on how they worked. Also, side bar - but something like 6 kids scored a perfect score on the ACT in 1990. One went to my high school (small rural school) - he would calculate the geometric sin, cos, and tangent in his head instead of using a calculator during tests in high school. He joined the Army after high school, haven't heard from him since. The other kid that scored perfect - one of my good college friends - very very intelligent, graduated with 2 degrees with high honors (one was Genetics, I forgot the other), but hasn't had a decent job in over 20 years. He couldn't "stand" to be a "lab assistant" and do the "grunt work" as a "wet behind the ears college grad" working for someone with "half his intelligence". He expected to walk in and be boss of a university dep't "as a 22 year old college grad". He'd insult all his bosses intellect, call them stupid with stupid ideas, and alas - he sits at home, plays video games all day, lives off his mom's SS, and sells pot to a few select people for 'spending money' on top of the odd manual labor "rake the leaves / clean the gutters" kind of job.
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