Anybody lookin for a job should apply to be Dean of Admissions at MIT:
The dean of admissions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who had counseled students applying to colleges not to try to “measure up to everybody else’s standards,” resigned from her post today after acknowledging that she had padded her own résumé.
Marilee Jones, who was in charge of the office that decides who gets in to the prestigious university and who does not, at a time of fierce competition for entrance to the best colleges, admitted to her supervisors that she had “misrepresented her academic degrees to the Institute,” school officials said today....
Ms. Jones had claimed on her résumé that she had received degrees from Albany Medical College, Union College, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, but in fact she had not.
The article makes it sound like she was actually really good at her job. But that's beside the point. Speaking as a staff writer at the New Yorker and as a nobel prize-caliber economist, my ballsy opinion of the day is that I don't think society should allow people who tell big, pertinent lies to maintain positions of great power.
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