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Innovators Are Older Than Ever
GrokSoup writes "A new study shows that great achievements in science are produced by older innovators today than they were a century ago. Using data on Nobel Prize winners and great inventors, the author shows that the age at which noted innovations are produced has increased by approximately 6 years over the 20th Century. This runs contrary to accepted wisdom in science, which says that most scientists peak in their 20s. It is also welcome news to those of us who have not yet, ahem, done our Nobel-winning work."
Looks like you didn't bother to learn how to speak English either.
See this.
You can read the complete paper here:- ben/htm/AgeAndGreatInvention.pdf
http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/faculty/jones
I can only speak from my own experience as a hardware design engineer, supervisor, manager, and consultant (now retired) who has interviewed and recommended (or not) hiring scores - if not hundreds - of prospective employees during the course of my career.
If you're getting B's and A's, then don't worry about it too much. 30+ years of experience taught me that I don't want the A+ memorizers. I want the folks that easily made the B+'s and A's but missed perfect marks because they got so passionately caught up in their subject that they weren't inclined to mess with memorizing. I want smart, hard-core technologists - not scholars.
Straight A's will get you into the interview slightly more often, but will not get you hired unless you can communicate your depth of knowledge (and passion) to the interviewer. Remember that you are being interviewed by people just like you, but with more experience.
For what its worth.
Cloned foods give the statement "We had that last week!" a whole new meaning.
Quandrum, judging from your comments, it sounds like you might enjoy reading Gatto's Underground History of American Education.
Then again, maybe you already have.