On 3/27/2012 5:30 PM, Hawke wrote:
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.

My undergraduate classes were taught by professors with Ph.D degrees.
My undergraduate university was not as prestigious as UCLA, but it still
was a research university, not a teaching college like Chico, and being
private, there were small class sizes and none of the economics classes
were taught by assistants. UCLA, of course, is a premier research
university, and the professors had degrees almost exclusively from other
premier schools like Stanford (Armen Alchian), Harvard (Jack
Hirshleifer), Chicago (Ben Klein), and Northwestern (Harold Demsetz).