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Professors at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton say their advice to incoming freshmen can be ‘distilled to 3 words’

Students walk on the campus of UCLA on April 23, 2012 in Los Angeles, California. According to reports, half of recent college graduates with bachelor's degrees are finding themselves underemployed or jobless.

A group of 15 Ivy League professors wrote a letter to incoming college freshmen, challenging them to avoid conforming to dominant views.

“We are scholars and teachers at Princeton, Harvard, and Yale who have some thoughts to share and advice to offer students who are headed off to colleges around the country,” they wrote. “Our advice can be distilled to three words: Think for yourself.”

The letter continued:

“Thinking for yourself means questioning dominant ideas even when others insist on their being treated as unquestionable. It means deciding what one believes not by conforming to fashionable opinions, but by read more >>>

Source:: BusinessInsider.Com