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From: g-rh@cca.UUCP (Richard Harter)
Newsgroups: net.cse
Subject: Re: Math and CS
Message-ID: <6608@cca.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 8-Mar-86 22:19:24 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar  8 22:19:24 1986
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Reply-To: g-rh@cca.UUCP (Richard Harter)
Organization: Computer Corp. of America, Cambridge
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Summary: 

In article <> gds@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU (Greg Skinner) writes:
>......
>Actually, this brings me to a deeper question.  I have always wondered
>why some hackers just didn't grit their teeth and suffer through the N
>years to get their degrees.....

A note on this.  I have learned, from painful experience, that there is
a class of people who have a block about completing major projects.
They may be brilliant and capable of very good work, but when it comes
to that final push to get the job done, they can't do it, somehow.  It
is typical of people in this group that they don't complete college.
One of the values of a college degree of any kind to an employer is
that it is tangible evidence that the person in question can, in fact,
carry a major task through to completion.

	Richard Harter, SMDS Inc.