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I was a liberal arts major at a small HBCU down south. One thing, I did learn in college is how to hustle. It has helped a lot in grad school.
i can believe you. i asked both my friends who attended hbcu's about how they made it and they both stated that there success was a result of people not really giving them a chance in the corporate world due to not being from a more prestigious university. at the end of the day they had to eat so they went out and formed their own companies both of which have turned out to be huge successes. now they are in positions to hire folks with similar backgrounds as them who might not otherwise get a chance. kinda reminds me of the tyler perry story.
LOL try again. The University of Texas and Texas A&M are actually beneficiaries of the same undivided land grant -- UT gets 2/3 of the money and A&M gets 1/3. The land grant college act only specified that one school per state be devoted to agriculture and mechanical studies.
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Land grant colleges are required to have programs in agriculture, and No, the University of Texas is not a land grant college.
UT gets 2/3 and A&M gets 1/3 of the Permanent University Fund. The PUF was established by the state of Texas and is not connected with the Morrill Act or the establishment of land grant colleges.
Land grant colleges are required to have programs in agriculture, and No, the University of Texas is not a land grant college.
UT gets 2/3 and A&M gets 1/3 of the Permanent University Fund. The PUF was established by the state of Texas and is not connected with the Morrill Act or the establishment of land grant colleges.
Texas is a land grant school, but it might not have received it's grant under the Morrill Act (the federal government has no significant land in Texas unlike other states), but that will mean that A&M is not either since the two were established by the same act of the Texas legislature.
Land grant colleges are required to have programs in agriculture, and No, the University of Texas is not a land grant college.
UT gets 2/3 and A&M gets 1/3 of the Permanent University Fund. The PUF was established by the state of Texas and is not connected with the Morrill Act or the establishment of land grant colleges.
MIT is a land grant and has no agriculture program.
Funny, I have an MBA from a top 5 school and an engineering degree from a top public university. My comments were also based upon 30 years of professional experience.
My observation is that it takes able liberal arts majors about 5 years to get traction in the business world. Engineers from descent public universities start right out of school at that point.
For someone with that much education, you're not that funny.
Ultimately, it's not the education you received, but your own drive and ability that wins out. Engineers with drive and ability that get advanced degrees do extremely well. Able liberal art majors with drive eventually overcome the handicap of their degrees. Middle of the road liberal arts majors never do very well. They end up in process related dead end jobs.
I work for a major financial services company---liberal arts majors are all over the company doing everything from quantitative analysis to portfolio management to programming to marketing to HR. There are a few former engineering majors doing the quant stuff--poring over spreadsheets, doing light coding and running "models"-- because they have a reputation for being "good at math" and good at rote execution. Their jobs are nothing BUT process-oriented. Engineers in finance never seemed to get tapped for leadership positions that require communications skills and political savvy, which plays a LARGE role in rising the ladder in corporations. And when it comes to sales, most of those guys either went to Nowhere State University and many didn't even finish college. With their "drive and ability", they out-earn most of the Penn State engineers or Harvard philosophy majors in the company.
check this out (http://osse.dc.gov/seo/cwp/view,A,1226,Q,536770,seoNav_GID,1511,.asp - broken link)
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Myself and a group of peers were the kids that the DC Tag program was started because of us and our families'/teachers'/friends' protests... Several of us got public educations at schools in other states and it feels good this legacy goes on to this day!
Most of the most successful people in the history of mankind were drop-outs and high school graduates.
I'm trying to make a point that what you do involves 10% of luck, 40% of hard work, 30% of innovation and research, and 20% of good woman in your life.
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