Wednesday, November 12, 2008

The Intelligence Gap

Dear Rodger:

My boyfriend recently asked me after two years of dating, one year of which we have lived together, to marry him. We are very compatible or we would not have succeeded together this long. The one detail that continues to grate on me, though, is that I earned my master’s from one of the most prestigious colleges in the country while he earned his from a state school that is no higher than the third tier of educational institutions. This intelligence gap between us has not, up to this point, caused any major problems between us, but I am afraid that it eventually might. Is this a deal breaker?

Girl with a High IQ


Dear Girl with a High IQ ~

Responding to your letter is causing me a great deal of anxiety. My concern isn’t that I don’t have an answer for you but that I fear if I keep writing I’m going to make a grammatical error & then you’ll figure out that I got my master’s from a state school & stop reading my response.

So I’ll just try to finish up real quick (or should that be quickly?) & say: Quit being a diploma snob & marry the guy before he dumps you for being so elitist.

Rodger

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

based on my experience, weather someone goes to a private college or a state college depended on weather or not your parents could pay the tuition not how smart you were

Anonymous said...

this woman is an elitist bitch!

Anonymous said...

The other factor that causes many students to go to a state university instead of a private college is that they have a high school counselor who pushes them in that direction, or else does not inform them of the world of private schools. My point is that it is not a case as the letter writer suggests of smart people going to private colleges and dumb ones going to state universities.

Anonymous said...

Clearly this guy is not very bright, as the letter writer states, or he would be smart enough to have ended his relationship with this uppity bitch. I mean really, who would have the audacity to sign a letter girl with a high IQ?

Anonymous said...

afraid to write whether it's quick or quickly - LOL! (quick is right)