Do You Get Defensive About Being From Nebraska?

[Macrina]

To get back On Topic, I'll say, Why no, I don't get defensive about being from Nebraska. It's a great state. I'm a third generation descendant of the early pioneer days in Nebraska and my forebears were honorable, God-loving people. My great-grandfather worked laying the railroad ties when the Union Pacific railroad was laid down across Nebraska.

I think one person commenting on this thread perhaps does not have a legitimate connection with the thread, if we are all truly hoping to stay on topic. Just sayin'.....

[Hidden Hand]

Goooooo biiiiiigggggg rrreeeeeeedddd!!!!!

-HH

[Hidden Hand]

Originally Posted by JustMe_T3K

Tell us how you are better then we are !



I see you are listed as in Nebraska. You must hang out with the wrong people if you don't think the majority are very intelligent.

Birds of a feather flock together.

Like I said in an earlier post, I live here only for the work. If it was not for my job, I'd be somewhere else.

I never stated that "I'm better".

-HH

[Hidden Hand]

Originally Posted by Gunluvver2

Very interesting story. Did you use well water for consumption while on the farm?

-HH
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Yes HH with some of the best water on Earth. Why do you ask?
GL2

Seems like the kids who grew up drinking fluoridated water are behind mentally (especially when it comes to memory) compared to those who grew up drinking non-chemically/toxic treated water; i.e. those who lived in the country or grew up on a farm. Your story just added a bit more confirmation to what some Doctors have been recently stating.

-HH

[Kootr]

Originally Posted by Gunluvver2

I know a fellow in Omaha that is a graduate of the University of Nebraska. I haven't had the chance to ask him if he ever regretted going to UNL instead of attending some prestigious school like Yale or Harvard. In a recent report to stockholders of his company I believe he had a handful of Harvard and Yale graduates working for him but they were working for a graduate of UNL. To get exact numbers on that I suppose EDGAR has the latest reports on Berkshire/Hathaway.

GL2

For your information Warren Buffett attended high school in Washington, DC at Woodrow Wilson High School. As you should know Woodrow Wilson High School is (was) not a tiny remote school in rural Nebraska, which is what this topic is about!

Buffett attended his first three years of undergraduate school at top-ranked University of Pennsylvania. He finished his last year of undergraduate school at University of Nebraska. He then went to top-ranked Columbia University Business School in NYC for graduate school. Again, Buffett did NOT attend high school in a tiny remote Nebraska high school...and that is the topic being discussed!

[Kootr]

Originally Posted by Go Ne

Told you I was young didn't I? But I can easily act far older than I am, and I am far more intelligent than you assume.

You're confusing the appearance of being older and intelligent versus actually being older and (more importantly) being intelligent!

Congratulations on having parents that are both doctors. But, we aren't talking about your parents - we're talking about receiving a quality education from a tiny, remote shool in rural Nebraska...

Do you attend a tiny, remote high school in rural Nebraska? That IS the topic being debated! Or have you forgotten?

[Kootr]

The following is typical (and proof) of where students that attend tiny, remote/rural high schools usually go to college after graduating..."if" they even choose to further their education at all!

The highest ranked school any student from the two classes of Potter/Dix, NE is said to be attending is the University of Wyoming, which is a bottom tier 3 ranked school. (Note: The only class years available on the school's website with students' college plans were for '04 & '08.)

Potter/Dix Class of 2004

Potter/Dix Class of 2008


Morning Side College - Sioux City, IO
Chadron State
Concordia University
Chreighton School of Nursing - Hastings
Southeast Community College - Milford
Massage Therapy School - Omaha
Hastings College
Casper College
University of Wyoming
Western Nebraska Community College
Laramie County Community College
Embry Riddle
Culinary School
Heavy Equipment Academy

Join Air Force
Join Navy
Join Peace Corp

Does anyone want to explain why no students are going to a tier 1 ranked school?

[GraniteStater]

This thread has gone too far off-topic and is now closed.