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- From: peterd@pjd.dev.cdx.mot.com (Peter Desnoyers)
- Subject: Re: Preparation for programming
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- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 00:31:00 GMT
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- dlhpfm!dlh@NCoast.org (daniel lance herrick) writes:
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- >> Somebody else wrote:
- >>
- >> >> People who just study books and ace tests make poor
- >> >> business employees but fairly good academics, i.e. LOT'S of
- >> >> theory but little experience to back that theory up.
-
- Funny, my impression was that such people tended to succeed in the
- commercial world, but had a hard time making it through college to get
- there. Sheer persistence will accomplish a lot of things as a manager
- or marketer or some other MBA-oriented professional, but it won't prove
- a theorem.
-
- It's sort of frustrating to realize that that student who could never
- figure out calculus but was president of 5 different campus
- organizations is probably going to be your boss someday.
-
- Peter Desnoyers
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