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==Page Braggartly?==
Does anyone else find this page to be just a little too pompous? I have no problem with the individual people posting their locations (I am personally interested in knowing geographically where people are going to be), but the idea of such a wikipedia page existing makes Williams students seem awfully conceited. Isn't this page no more than a self-congratulatory slap on the back? I am proud of the fact that we have extraordinarily smart people at this college, and feel privileged to know them, but I think this page serves simply as excessive bragging. Why not start a page called "Ephs making over $50,000 next year"? Can someone tell me what the point of the page is if not to trumpet one's intellectual prowess?
 
The point of this page is to notify fellow ephs of your location next year, so that we can maintain connections--or discover ones we didn't know would exist. Why should anyone be surprised that ephs get into good schools? (Also, for the record, Brian put the "rocket science" parenthetical note after my name, not me.) I suppose you could always move this to a "Graduate School" section of a "Where Ephs are going to be after graduation" page if you think that would be less pompous. --[[User:06jps|06jps]] 09:45, 21 April 2006 (EDT)
 
==Renaming==
I support the page, but I'm sorry it struck someone as braggatory, and I can definitely see how it could. But as I wish to keep it, more pressing on my mind is: we ''do'' definitely need to rename this page. And I should write a set of naming conventions to help this stop happening . . . the problem is we need to aim at names that will work in a Willipedia world, names that will be naturally linked to in other articles. So even if it costs us accuracy, I'd like to see this moved to something like a section in "Graduate School" or "Post-Graduation" . . . other short, general title suggestions welcomed.--[[User:05jl|05jl]] 19:17, 21 April 2006 (EDT)
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