What was your alma mater, and where do you work now? Do you feel like you're doing better for yourself, or do you wish you had stayed back and built yourself up in your alma mater?

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I can answer this. I went to Yale and the mistake I made was never leaving Yale. I’m in my 15th year as a student there and I can tell you, the debt is brutal. But I still gotta build myself up more.

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Is this an engagement-farming bot? What a weird and impersonal question

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There’s been a lot of those recently.

How would one stay back and build yourself up? You either graduate with a degree or drop out/transfer.

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I attended the university of Phoenix and now I work for the university of Phoenix

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I went to a state school in the South East US (sorry not trying to dox myself).

It had no effect on me getting into advertising, if that’s what you mean. I reckon I would be doing better had I gone the STEM route, but I ended up making decent ad wages in pharma, so.

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