Two Meaningless Sets of Rankings Emerge From the Ether, Everyone Freaks Out
Another day, another set of painfully unimportant, arbitrary rankings blowing up your News Feeds. Executive summary for those of you who don’t want to waste any more time on this nonsense: Cornell (No. 1) and Yale (No. 3) made GQ’s Douchiest College list; Princeton (No. 1), Harvard (No. 4), and Dartmouth (No. 6) made Payscale’s list of highest mid-career salaries for graduates. If you care about these things, read on. If not: thanks for being part of the solution, instead of the problem.
Yesterday was the list of “Douchiest Colleges in America,” straight from the douche publication of record itself, GQ. Cornell University took the top spot on this list for being home of the “chip on the shoulder douche,” and lots of almost-funny bitterness-related reasons. I really want to know who put together the pièce de résistance on this one, a section titled “If You Could Read the Thought Bubble Over Campus.” Was it a pissed off alumnus? A gloating affiliate of another Ivy? Or just a tragically unfunny GQ writer from another football conference? Read after the jump: Read the rest of this entry »

