[MedicalMess]

"If this guy was 'unbalanced' because he killed himself as he failed in an exam , then my guess would most people in societies oriented towards academics must be the same way as well - Indians , Japanese , Chinese , and certainly a lot of Americans......Some folks take this stuff -exams , degrees , grades seriously."

See, there it is. I've been saying that we shouldn't hire these people for years because they all boarder on "flake".

I mean really. Do you want the engineer that grew up with no toys on a dirt floor? Or, do you want the engineer that grew up with the erector set, with Tonka toys, HO train set, and Johnny Eagle M14 rifle?

[Lurker]

You had a Johny Eagle M14 rifle? You lucky bas****. I was promised one if I got an A in algebra, but the best I could manage was a C+. So I had to watch all the other kids play with their Johny Eagle M14 rifles.

I still don't think I'm over the trauma.

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