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by akhilcacharya 3142 days ago
> It took him a few minutes just to realize that the test covered the same topics, while I thought the test was merely "hard" pedestrian content. Once I talked him through the problem, he realized how cool it was, and then he realized one of the key differences between our schools -- the boundaries of my thinking on topics were challenged and stretched much, much more aggressively.

Well as long as you were able to demonstrate that you were better than him, it's all OK.
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csa 3142 days ago
Neither I, my friend, nor any of our peers doubted who was better at STEM subjects -- he was and is.

The whole thing was a pitch to get him to transfer (I think he would have easily gotten in), but he didn't want to leave our home state.

My point was merely that the school I went to pushed the boundaries of my thinking, while his (at least in that class) did not.

Did that make my school better? For my personal goals, it did. For his personal goals, it did not.

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