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That pretty much puts him in the the same millennial bucket. lol
In all seriousness, the applicant's writing was fine, and his correction was superficial at best.
Does he not realize how bad this article makes him look?
Second to that is that the word magnanimous is probably not in Pollard's vocabulary.
I spend almost all of my time avoiding both places and giving zero fucks about the people that get sucked into those whirlpools of desperate flailing for attention.
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I think it should be. Lead by example.
It seems to me that having to polish all feedback to a publishable level of quality would (greatly?) reduce the amount of feedback someone could give. I've appreciated informal feedback that I've received in the past and if that was the bar that needed to met I would have likely never received anything back.
"I graduated from Cornell in 2004." That pretty much puts him in the the same millennial bucket. lol In all seriousness, the applicant's writing was fine, and his correction was superficial at best. Does he not realize how bad this article makes him look?
It sounds like Pollard was trying to emulate his writing professors (forgetting he is supposed to be a businessman now). I've met people like that. Trying to teach "life lessons" (in which they don't succeed) instead of sticking to the prime objective. And Pollard's writing professors sound like blowhards who don't have much else going on in life but pompous critiques. Pretty much like a number of university soft sci…
Lost me at "millennial". How can people jump on the millennial-hating train and not see it as the "kids these days" "get off my lawn" horseshit that it really is? The author could use a good editor.
As a libertarian and a deist, I'm on the outs with almost anyone who tends towards most extremes (even people in my own party, "taxation is theft" mantra for example). There were pacifists in WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam, etc... They've always been there. But today as long as it's your guy being the agressor it seems to be okay, but as soon as it's the other guy, it's all bad.
It's like all reason and accountability went out the window at some point. Yes, some of what gets reported is sensational examples far from the norm... but it's at a rate that astounds me. There are a lot of people who have had a very sheltered existence and assume that what's fair is always what's right and that their sheltered view is what is real. It usually isn't.
It sounds like Pollard was trying to emulate his writing professors (forgetting he is supposed to be a businessman now). I've met people like that. Trying to teach "life lessons" (in which they don't succeed) instead of sticking to the prime objective. And Pollard's writing professors sound like blowhards who don't have much else going on in life but pompous critiques. Pretty much like a number of university soft sci…
It sounds like Pollard was trying to emulate his writing professors (forgetting he is supposed to be a businessman now). I've met people like that. Trying to teach "life lessons" (in which they don't succeed) instead of sticking to the prime objective. And Pollard's writing professors sound like blowhards who don't have much else going on in life but pompous critiques. Pretty much like a number of university soft sci…
Then again... the applicant could have taken the criticism, adjust, and resubmit, thanking them for the prior critique. I see a LOT of very simple mistakes in articles today, published in print or online. It constantly makes me question as to what happened to actual editors and those that proof content.
Lost me at "millennial". How can people jump on the millennial-hating train and not see it as the "kids these days" "get off my lawn" horseshit that it really is? The author could use a good editor.
It's a matter of numbers that take generalities to extremes. Thirty years ago, some of the things I read about in all seriousness with serious tone would have been laughed at as having no basis for debate or serious consideration. Yes, people should generally feel relatively safe at school. But the idea that we should regress back to segregated living and social quarters because some people can't handle being in a si…