08-09-2015, 10:47 AM
Thanks for the perspective, guys, especially Garvin. I had always seen the 40-year commitment as some special insider network wherein you are able to connect and make thousands more than people with similar degrees. I think the only times I've benefitted from such a network were a) when the director of our journalism program found me a great internship when she was at a newspaper convention, and b) when one of the posters here persuaded the head of sports marketing to give me a courtesy phone interview (When she started out with "You're so overqualified," I knew it was a courtesy interview.)
When I was at Stanford, I heard Coretta Scott King, Jimmy Carter, Seymour Hersh, a Mercury News Pulitzer Prize winner, and the editor-in-chief of the Los Angeles Times. I could have learned to write a lede at San Jose State, but I probably wouldn't have heard from that crowd.
BTW, so far, the results of the unscientific and small sample poll are:
4 - It applies to undergraduates only
1 - It's real, but like everything else in Silicon Valley, doesn't apply after 40
2 - Is a fiction told to athletes
When I was at Stanford, I heard Coretta Scott King, Jimmy Carter, Seymour Hersh, a Mercury News Pulitzer Prize winner, and the editor-in-chief of the Los Angeles Times. I could have learned to write a lede at San Jose State, but I probably wouldn't have heard from that crowd.
BTW, so far, the results of the unscientific and small sample poll are:
4 - It applies to undergraduates only
1 - It's real, but like everything else in Silicon Valley, doesn't apply after 40
2 - Is a fiction told to athletes