Aerospace BS, and successful employment using that skill set, requires skills and mindset many with PhDs in "soft fields" do not have, even if those PhDs have the work ethic and the natural talent to have succeed in a mathematically intense field. "... almost certainly possesses the skills ..." is greatly exaggerated.
Let me repharse, she has the aptitude and ability. She would have to go learn calculus, physics and differential equations and everything else required to get in a PhD program.
In terms of mathematical ability, given that she got into Harvard and is performing very well there, she must be better than 90th percentile in mathematics which is good enough for an aerospace PhD. Quite frankly I would be surprised if she wasn't 98+ percentile in mathematics. I have a PhD in mechanical engineering, work in aerospace engineering and couldn't get into Harvard. That is, I think getting into Harvard, especially for undergraduates, is significantly more challenging than getting a PhD.
Agree--she is smart, connected and ambitious. I could easily see her translating her environmental science knowledge into many types of careers. And if her parents are DC bureaucrats they'll help her in the system.
Her whole aura is incredibly irritating - she has some sort of white savior complex and would of course deny that and stand behind her Harvard degree claiming how other people are just not as "enlightened" as her. Has she checked her (they?) white privilege yet? lmao
She actually seemed down to earth here and not the typical snobby East Coaster...refreshing.
I get where you are coming from though. Some peeps I knew who went to Brown and NYU were kinda like that.
Harvard will meet 100% of your financial needs, and no matter what you major in you will have good options when you graduate. You don't have to sell your soul and major in Hedge Fund Management just because you're poor.
You would be surprised; the big 4 accounting firms, the leading management consultants, wall st firms and other companies all hire humanities majors thru the Harvard on campus recruiting program.
These firms understand that Harvard grads, regardless of major had to be top performers in math just to be admitted to Harvard. They just want smart, goal-oriented people to work for them.
The 1st month for a new hire with absolutely zero business experience can be entertaining, but they learn quickly. These type of hires often do very well later in management positions.
Exactly; someone like her will never see the inside of a food bank or working-class city. Some people in life work hard AND also are smart enough to take advantage of where they are at to have a safe, smooth ride up their career path.
To her credit, she seems humble enough that if she encountered working-class folks she'd be chill.
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Her whole aura is incredibly irritating - she has some sort of white savior complex and would of course deny that and stand behind her Harvard degree claiming how other people are just not as "enlightened" as her. Has she checked her (they?) white privilege yet? lmao
Go find out her mothers employment history for the last 25 years and it may explain why.
Go find out her mothers employment history for the last 25 years and it may explain why.
Can you clarify? Nothing on Google.
I can't remember the specifics but her mum has some sort of upper level government job, maybe the State Department, really am not sure. But there's an earlier post where someone said something to the effect that if Ramsden wants to do some sort of government work her parents can help her get it. I'm also pretty vague here but it's something along those lines.
And I never really get why people put cryptic posts here like the one you're responding to. If you want to make a point just take another minute or two and actually make it.
Perfect encapsulation of the incel activity on Letsrun: A smart, fast, educated woman gets 8 pages devoted to belittling her for... for pretty much existing and being both smart and fast and coming from a well-off family. Oh darn. The incels at Letsrun must tear her down on every level.
Thanks for engaging with my comments in good faith/earnestly. I'll grant your point that there is a good deal of bad humanities scholarship that stands on nothing other than its orientation to social justice issues (or what some here call "wokeness"). However, I think if you look around at a lot of the major institutions and high-profile research in humanities and social sciences, you'll find that most of it is not as "woke" as you may be lead to believe.
Also, the number of academics that are *actually* doing Derridean deconstruction or who are *actually* Marxists these days is pretty small in the grand scheme of things.
True! Thank you. Unlike many of these posters, I think more attention and resources should be paid to both the liberal and fine arts (the “useless” disciplines), and less to STEM and business and all that (“what will get you a job.”) I just think it should be out of the hands of the “wokeists,” and put back in the hands of those who love the great tradition. I also think college is massively expensive as it is, and I support any alternative route that would give a classical liberal education to the everyday American, not just the elite specialist. I majored in philosophy, without any expectation that I would go on to “do” something with it. I just have a normal job that gives me free time to continue reading.
Animal Sex in Public: Warping Time and Sexuality in the Zoo
Nonhuman Labor and the Making of Resources: Making Soils a Resource through Microbial Labor
Toxic Bodies: Ticks, Trans Bodies, and the Ethics of Response-Ability in Art and Activist Writing
In all seriousness, some of those could help those in the bio/environmental science field, esp. with soils studies, plants, animal behavior, etc. So at first glance they seem over the top but I'd be curious to actually read them and see what the are about.
I read the abstract of the one below and it doesn't seem superficial at all. Some of these topics are quite complex. This one has an economic bent to it.
I do get that some could be annoyed at wealthy people having more privilege but I think the best you can do, and I learned this, is just improve where you can...I think the class war is exacerbated by the comparison culture on social media.
This approach transforms the debates on the relationship between nature and capital by productively collapsing the distinction between labor and resources. The author argues that acknowledging the material co-constitution of (any form of) labor and resource making allows us to better analyze the processes through which natures are rolled into capital. Today’s enrollment of soil biota as labor thus opens up the whole biosphere to the logic of improvement, and to the operations of capital.
Lol. Why are you posting like aerospace engineering is the hardest thing ever ... it's not.
Tool.
I said they are different skill sets. Winning a 1500 championship is arguably much more difficult. But aerospace engineering requires quantitative reasoning skills which the others do not, and which she likely doesn't possess.
Nice one . You speculate on the basis of zero evidence and present it as fact.
Harvard's Maia Ramsden says she'll go pro next year and get a PhD when she's done. Apparently she's also super into fashion. Here's the article! https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/3/30/maia-ramsden-fm-profile/
Did you stop to consider that Ramsden redshirting this outdoor season to focus on Paris?
I did not. I'm pretty sure the Ivy League does not allow redshirting except possibly medical redshirting. What does that have to do with the topic at hand?