I too attended Mines for awhile and find that comment unfair. Students there work very hard. They have to memorize all sorts of shit.

Wow. I think the "memorizing shit" method of learning went out of practice, ohh, about the time they invented reference books, which was way before Mines opened. And I'm not knocking hard work, but my plumber works hard too. But that doesn't make him qualified to write papers about the future of oil discoveries in any way at all, (it does make him qualified to figure out where the sewer line is leaking, or at least at the rate that he is digging, one would think he'll find something eventually.)

Seriously, if you want to defend the school, did they teach critical thinking?