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(Bliss) wrote in
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> I don't know if Michelle is real or not with respect to the kitchen
> design issue, but the smart-alec comments about her degree credential
> are not evidence of anything but ignorance of graduate education. It
> is the rare graduate student who spends their entire education at
> their home campus. Two examples personal to me, my own ex-husband was
> a doctoral student in psychology at Cornell but spent only two years
> in Ithaca altough it took him five to finish the degree. My daughter
> is a law student at Cornell but spent this semester in New York City
> doing an internship. Most junior faculty members at colleges
> throughout the US haven't finished their degrees at the home campus,
> including Ivy League universities, but have to work in order to live
> so they could very well be sending email from a different instiution
> altogether. Its an irrelevant issue, frankly.
>

Anyone who claims to be thinking about buying a "luxury kitchen design"
for her husband probably is not in the situation of having to "work in
order to live". Besides which, she claimed she was "a grad student
nearing completion of a master's in psychology at an Ivy League school".
That does not sound like someone who has taken a break from school in
order to make ends meet, either. The email was sent via Cox (a cable
company) in Atlanta. So it was not sent from "a different institution
altogether" as you suggest. With the very strong possibility that she
was lying about spamming, why shouldn't she also be lying about being a
student?

The Internet is full of people who use the anonymity to take advantage of
others. It pays to be on guard.