{"id":1311,"date":"2002-09-10T14:45:00","date_gmt":"2002-09-10T14:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/2002\/09\/ivy-league-isnt-better-just-more-expensive.html"},"modified":"2002-09-10T14:45:00","modified_gmt":"2002-09-10T14:45:00","slug":"ivy-league-isnt-better-just-more-expensive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/2002\/09\/ivy-league-isnt-better-just-more-expensive.html","title":{"rendered":"Ivy League Isn&#8217;t Better&#8211;Just More Expensive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, now I have my own link from a boring MBA site! Thanks, Martin (who linked to me from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mba-experience.com\/\">The MBA Experience<\/a>, which is actually not boring since he&#8217;s British and therefore says things such as &#8220;knackered&#8221; and spells &#8220;realized&#8221; with an <i>s<\/i> and has to take his finals in a glorified dress). So there, Adam!<\/p>\n<p>And as long as we&#8217;re on the subject of snooty, over-priced, pseudo-intellectual institutions (that would be HBS, not Martin&#8217;s site), why am I so offended at the job posting sent to the Partners Group: &#8220;Ideal candidate is Ivy-league, very sharp and personable.&#8221; Ivy League is a job requirement? What friggin&#8217; elitism! C&#8217;mon, everyone reading this knows some moron who made his way through an Ivy League school somehow.  Whose parent, perhaps, bought him a place at the university?  And how many brilliant non-Ivys do you know? It really, truly pisses me off. Of course, I don&#8217;t need them, since I&#8217;ve got my own job to be going to (which I won&#8217;t tell about until things are down on paper. No need to jinx it at this point!).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, now I have my own link from a boring MBA site! Thanks, Martin (who linked to me from The MBA Experience, which is actually not boring since he&#8217;s British and therefore says things such as &#8220;knackered&#8221; and spells &#8220;realized&#8221; with an s and has to take his finals in a glorified dress). So there, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}