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NRaleighLiberal

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11. I was a grad student at Dartmouth, so had to TA the labs...

Reply to demmiblue (Original post)

Tue Mar 12, 2019, 04:10 PM

Mar 2019

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My piers and I were all pretty much middle class at most - but the wealth of the students in our labs and classes were...well, multiples of our own. That's OK - it happens - but the infuriating thing is when we tried to give honest grades to rich, careless students, but were told we couldn't because the families of the kids who nearly burned down the labs were huge alumni donors.

I learned early on about this sort of bullshit. Made us all sick.

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Is he going to be charged? BigmanPigman Mar 2019 #6

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I was a grad student at Dartmouth, so had to TA the labs... NRaleighLiberal Mar 2019 #11

Your "piers" ? maddiemom Mar 2019 #14

Sorry...autocorrect. fellow grad srudents NRaleighLiberal Mar 2019 #20

For what it is worth Jarqui Mar 2019 #12

But.. but... getagrip_already Mar 2019 #13

Indeed ck4829 Apr 2019 #25

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Yet the trump-supporting rubes think he and 45 are one of their own. n/t MarcA Mar 2019 #19

I encourage anyone that hasn't seen the HBO documentary, "Rich Kids," amywalk Mar 2019 #21

Is that this one? (on YouTube) SwissTony Apr 2019 #26

I know one guy from a wealthy family got EXPELLED from Harvard for cheating hughee99 Mar 2019 #22

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