Harvard Reject Olbermann: I Don't Need No Stinkin' Liberal Arts!

Given the latest guffaws around Keith's inflated sense of his academic career, I took a quick look into it. It seems he made some tough choices over the years in this regard. Still, it's hard to understand Keith's apparent lack of appreciation for the liberal arts given his previous graduation from the perhaps all too fittingly named, in Keith's case, The Hackley School. I wonder if other distinguished alums such as George Hamilton, Peter Strauss and Joe Klein felt the same way about a well-rounded under graduate degree - even if they couldn't get the internship with the Celtics.

Olbermann entered Cornell at the young age of 16, a year younger than his classmates, after receiving a full scholarship to Boston University and getting rejected by Harvard. He had an internship with the Boston Celtics lined up, but when he realized that he had to spend two years in a generalized liberal arts program at B.U. in order to be a communications major, he decided to attend Cornell.

Olbermann said that in order for him to graduate, he had to take 28 credits during the spring semester of his senior year. In addition, he did not know until the day before graduation whether he was going to be able to attend the festivities as a member of the Class of 1979. "It was a little stressful," he said sarcastically. "I had a dream about it as recently as last night."

I don't know. Looks like he's still having nightmares over it if you ask me.

Comments

[mark l.]

anytime he wants to do a show comparing his admission scores to w or oreilly, I'd watch.

It is starting to make more sense about the oblermann psychosis. He can't accept that oreilly or bush are smarter than him. someday, harvard might go online, so that kieth could attend class from his bathtub.

IT is consistent with the pew poll that examined knowledge of particular networks and media...
limbaugh listeners were scoring 150% higher than msnbc watchers.

[rick]

Olbermann only made Anne Coulter's main point as CLEAR as the blue summer sky.

Olbermann was lying to himself until Anne Coulter liberated him from his self-inflicted bondage.

[ann benton]

O'Reilly went to Marist, a decidedly low brow college. It's hard to say about W because he got into Yale as a legacy. He did not get into the University of Texas law school however and attended Harvard Business School instead.