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Jiang's description of what elite university politics are actually proving beneath the official educational mission.
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social worth
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...And the very point of a university is to prove your social worth. But I didn't know that. I mean, like, I was just..."
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Jiang describes elite universities as social hierarchies where secret societies certify social worth, and says he was too naive and marginalized to play that game.
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"...And the very point of a university is to prove your social worth. But I didn't know that. I mean, like, I was just..."
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"The entire point of Yale is to read good books, talk to your professors and open your mind. And so that's what I did..."
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"So I'm in the class of 1999. And apparently, the class of 1999 was a mediocre class, and that's about how I got in...."
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"...altogether, these business executives, if you put all the company's net worth together, their companies are worth over $12 trillion."
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"...dollar from the gold standard. And now, the US dollar is worth nothing. Before, you could take the US dollar and change it for..."
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"...the past. It's language that binds us together. It's language that's worth fighting for. It's race, nation, blood. Okay. Okay. And this becomes the..."
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"...oil from the Middle East and the economy is destroyed it's worth it all right okay even now even at this late stage we're..."
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"...and so i think the me it's like is was that worth 100 billion dollars and you know because again to your point if..."
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"...If you go into the attitude that one American soldier is worth more than $100 million F -15 or F -35, you're going to..."
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"...just that the house they bought for eighty thousand dollars became worth six hundred thousand dollars and they took out a home equity line..."
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"...like when they died, if you actually look at their net worth, how much they stole onto their children and grandchildren, it was only..."
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"...balanced people, with a deep sense of their own self, self -worth, and meaning and purpose in their lives. And I think that's a..."
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