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- Newsgroups: alt.supermodels
- Path: sparky!uunet!infonode!ingr!b30news!andy
- From: andy@b30.ingr.com (Andrew Brezinski)
- Subject: Re: Brains
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.162715.16084@b30.ingr.com>
- Organization: Intergraph
- References: <1992Nov13.102525.8843@ac.dal.ca> <1e10iqINNjge@rave.larc.nasa.gov>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 16:27:15 GMT
- Lines: 41
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- In article <1e10iqINNjge@rave.larc.nasa.gov> voyager.larc.nasa.gov (Advisor) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov13.102525.8843@ac.dal.ca>, egilmour@ac.dal.ca writes:
- >> made it more obvious that it takes a real
- >> stretch of the imagination to believe that Cindy is intelligent.
- >
- >Not to flame you, but I saw in an interview that Cindy was studying
- >Chemical Engineering as an undergrad. Having taken that curriculum myself,
- >I would say that she couldn't have been an airhead if she did even moderately
- >well. However, she didn't finish so maybe she couldn't hack it or realized
- >how much more money she could make as a model. At any rate, she must have
- >done pretty well in high school to have been accepted into that program.
- >And from what I've seen on MTV she seems pretty intelligent to me.
- >
- >
-
- I've gotta throw in my $0.02 worth here...
-
- I knew some girls in college who were very pretty and were obviously
- intelligent (minimum requirements for acceptance were pretty strict).
- They had no problem doing well in their college courses. That's called
- "book smart." But when you talked to them, they came across as pretty
- stupid or silly. Maybe this is common sense. It seems to me that a
- person can easily appear to be stupid, but still get terrific grades
- in school.
-
- What I'm getting at is, while these supermodels may be appear to be
- idiots in interviews, they may also be able to handle themselves very
- well in the classroom. It's a different way of measuring "intelligence."
-
- As a sidebar, someone mentioned that Cindy C took up a chemical engineering
- major to qualify for a math scolarship. How many of you college students
- out there know people who have stuck unrelentingly to the major that they
- selected at or before there first year of college? What percentage of
- your friends changed their major within their college career? While it is
- admirable that she elected this as her major, obviously, it isn't really
- what she wanted to do. It just got her into college at the time.
-
- Andy Brezinski
- Intergraph Corporation
- Huntsville, AL 35894-0001
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