On 3/24/2012 6:23 PM, George Plimpton wrote:
On 3/24/2012 6:00 PM, Hawke wrote:
On 3/24/2012 5:05 PM, George Plimpton wrote:

Good to know you know so much more about me than I do. I do wonder
how
you know all this though.

It's not so hard to figure out, Ptooey. You said you were attending
university back in the 1970s, when you were in your 20s, then you said
you didn't obtain a degree until you were 50, which would be about
2001.
What were you doing in the interim - attending college and changing
majors every 10 days? No, you were not attending university during
that
time - you either dropped out or were expelled.


I got an AA in the early 70s, didn't go any farther. So I didn't drop
out or get expelled. I went back in 1998, fall semester. The rest is
history, which you don't know. By the way, I got excellent grades too.

In community college and a third-tier state college. Good for you, your
mommy probably baked you some cookies for it.


I could do worse.

You have.


At least all my professors had Ph.D.s and from major universities like
Notre Dame, Princeton, Columbia, etc. All had great credentials and all
of them did the teaching, not leaving it to assistants like you probably
got. I knew them all on a personal basis and they treated me like a
colleague not an ignorant 20 year old. They were bright enough to see
that at 49 years old I was bringing something to the table. They liked
and thought highly of me. But then they knew me and you do not. And when
those professors said they were teaching us the same things they teach
at the name schools I believe them. Unlike you they weren't liars.

Hawke