When people lie on their resume, it’s usually to fake an MBA from Harvard or battleground experience in Vietnam. Now along comes Scott Thompson, the recently ousted CEO of Yahoo, who threw it all away on a fake degree from Stonehill College.
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Actually, using a mouse in 1979 would have been cutting edge: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouse_%28computing%29
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"None of this is to imply anything negative about Stonehill." Right. "Your new dress dear? Why you look like bull dog stuffed into a sock . . . but I don't mean anything negative by that. You actually look quaint." Too bad. Mr. McGrory was just getting his mojo back riding the Liberty Mutual horse unto death. Now he's back to penning from his bed. He is better than this snarky drivel.
"Faking a computer science major from Stonehill in the 1970s is like falsely bragging that you were a star quarterback in college - on an MIT intramural team." Despite your attempt to compliment Stonehill, this was really quite a slur on a institution that has been consistently academically excellent since its founding. Shame on you. By the way, where did you go to college? I graduated from Stonehill in 1970 and I have always been proud of that fact.
Forty-seven thousand dollars a year to attend Stonehill!!!
Computer Science cirriculums and degrees were not available in four-year colleges back in 1979. "Data Processing" certificates were awarded at one and two year technical schools at that time. The training was centered around IBM technology. Stonehill alums should not get bent out of shape. Scott Thompson's false claim of a CS degree in 1979 actually pre-dated the existence of the degree itself.
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Bates, Bowdoin or Colby are not too shabby and would be a tough choice if accepted by all. Congratulations Brian for making an intelligent decision.
Being on the MIT intramural football team means that you got admitted into MIT, which is something to brag about.
I was kind of chuckling as I read this column, until I got to the end and I think you lost credibility -- computer science was by all means a discipline in the 1960s and 70s -- and of course there were computers (that you wouldn't recognize) that filled large rooms back then.
"With a tuition bill just north of $47,000 a year" Did you mean tuition, room and board? Even Harvard isn't $47K/year yet.