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Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
A buddy of mine from high school went to Cornell to study engineering. He has an accent that is associated with my home state, and he is one of the most laid back people you'd ever meet. When he moved to New York, he wasn't taken seriously at all by his classmates. The whole accent thing turned them off, and they were taking his laidbackness for laziness. Turns out that he is also also brilliant. Sharp tongue where you don't realize that he's made a total fool out of you until ten minutes later. Totally assesses a situation before jumping in, which is why he looks so laid back.
Another guy from our high school went up there to study architecture the same year that he did. After about two or three months, one of their classmates commented to the architect: "Wow, ____ is really smart, huh?" The architect replied "well, he was the number one physics student in the country when we were in high school." Our buddy went on to get the highest grades in that engineering class.
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umm. Cornell is nowhere near NYC (in geography or attitude).
but thanks for the story.
