The Harvard fraud. Why is this oh so familiar!
Adam Wheeler is an impostor. Faked his credentials. He’s the notorious Harvard Hoax. Why is this oh so familiar?! Recto Avenue?! Morayta, perhaps?! Or is it because we’ve run across a few Pinoys who have pretty much done the same thing? Maybe not to the extent of what this guy has done.
For example, what some Pinoys would do when they get the chance to “study” in America, is to over-glamourize and/or embellish their credentials. Notice, I did not say “fake”. For example: how many times have we ran across Pinoys who attended a few hours/days of seminars at well-known or Ivy League schools in the United States and make it appear that they went to these schools to study?
I am not a product of online schools. I physically made untog my head sa walls nang George Washington and Temple U in the United States. So, I will not make an opinion in terms of credibility of online courses or online education because this is such a heated discussion topic. I’ll leave it up to you. My point? It’s easier now kasi to embellish one’s credentials because of online courses. And if you’re not familiar with how some of these online courses works, baka bilib ka agad sa narinig mo. Because anyone could enroll in an online course of a well-known university that offers online courses. Pretty soon that school’s name would be in one’s resume. Easy huh?! Kelangan lang nang konting due diligence.
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reynz is one Uragon and a Filipino-American, has many years of public accounting & auditing, broadcast investments, housing tax credits and equity investments as his background. Based in the US, he maintains his personal and humor blog at reyna elena dot com. A graduate of Aquinas U, he went to GWU and Temple U in the United States.
Basta ako i make sunog my kilay in the swanky neighborhood of broad-olney sts in Philadelphia for my undergrad, pro teka i took online subjects too, lagot online din yun!
parang si frank abignale jr ng catch me if you can
Teka, nag-aalangan tuloy akong ilagay sa Facebook ko na product din ng online course.
My first ever school experience was Katon where we first learned to read with the use of the Kartilya. (Wala pang eKartilya nuon na parang eBook.) Unlike the Katon of before, kids now go to nursery schools and become nurses; others go on to college to take animal husbandry to become better husbands.
Going to Katon, we provincial kids always had to stay sa gilid, on line and in line. Nagagalit si titser pag may pagewang-gewang sa kalsada: “Linya!!!” Kung hindi sasagasaan ka ng rumaragasang kariton ng kalabaw na may kargang banye-banyerang isda.
And then, dun sa kubo ng titser, we had to sit, remain seated, stay quiet, in line, on line. Aba, masakit mabigyan ng certified thing-thing sa pwet. Lalo na kung may naiwan pang certified chicken poo after titser cleaned the yard earlier that morning.
At dahil wala pang mga computer nuon, ang alam naming “monitor” ay yung sipsip kay titser. Siya yung taga-sumbong pag may maingay o offline. Sa tech idiom ngayon, pwede rin siyang tawaging “mouse” kasi siya talaga yung rat.
Pero yung cursor function ng mouse ngayon, kapirasong walis thing-thing ang gumagawa noon. Kaya nga “puntero” ang tawag; taga urot. It was such a practical and effective technological tool. The same technology that cleaned the yard earlier was the same hardware that kept us in line and on line all the time. To top it all, kapirasong tingting lang enabled us to learn how to read. Using the puntero, isa-isahin mong ituturo at ibibigkas yung abakada.
At dahil wala pang pc, monitor o mouse, wala ring dialogue box. So hihintayin mo si titser, “Ulit…Ulit…Ulit” So, kahit puntero lang, may feedback naman. Parang mouse na may voice prompt.
Wala ring dialogue box siyempre (wala na ngang PC, monitor at mouse, dialogue box pa kaya?) Pero ang naaalala ko, pag maingay ka, ilalagay ka ni titser sa isang maliit na kuartong kasing liit ng kahon. Kaya nga, kung bipolar bear ka, magsasawa kang kausapin mga sarili mo hanggang makapag-desisyon ka kung sino sa mga personalities mo ang panalo. Yun siguro yung dialogue box namin; at least may reverb at echo effect. Well, kung bipolar ka, may chorus ka pa.
BTW, may technique din pag hawak ng “puntero”; pag mali, matutusok mo si titser. Bawal yun.
So, given my academic background, ano ngayon ang masa-suggest nyong medyo impressive na akma sa Facebook ko?
“Kaya nga, kung bipolar bear ka, magsasawa kang kausapin mga sarili mo hanggang makapag-desisyon ka kung sino sa mga personalities mo ang panalo.” HAHAHAHA I ADORE YOU HAHAHA!
ano yong katon? ano yong kartilya? sorry hehehe na miss ko ba to sa school? haha!
@ Reynz: hehehe, siguro nag nursery ka rin, Padi, no?
katon – eto yung equivalent noon ng mga nursery schools ngayon
kartilya – ito yung maliit na ‘textbook’ na ginagamit sa katon. ang pambungad nito ay yung “a e i o u”, kasunod yung mga consonants, hanggang makarating ka dun sa mga buong dasal. ito yung ginagamit para, by the time matuto kang magbasa, certified kang qualified umakyat sa heaven…or at least alam mo yung password.
wala! hahah! sa sobrang talino, from the mother’s womb paglabas ko sa mundo, deretso ako sa high school, inabot ko nun mid-terms na hahaha!!!
Padi, wag ka nang mahiya. Aminin mong paglabas mo sa womb, may hawak ka ng diploma. Ako ribbon lang, pero hindi sa buhok.
hindi naman! paglabas ko sa womb, panatang makabayan agad haha!
Siguro late bloomer nga ako; recess ang inabutan ko.
wala akong nursery padi, 1 year old pa lang ako, nagtatanim na ako nang palay hehehe
nabasa ko ang napakahabang blog ng isang swak na swak kay harvard hoax. napunta ako kasi madami nagsabi ano ba to so gusto ko basahin, after 2 paragraphs wala parin siyang point.. so pinagchagaan ko ng konti pa.. pero pagtingin ko sa scroll diyoskuday napakahaba… so kahit madami siguro pumupunta blog nya, gusto ko malaman ang bouncerate at time spent on blog niya bago natin masasabing madami siyang na-enlighten sa bipolar ramblings.
@libertad – kilala ko ata sino sinasabi mo, napansin ko din ayan. hindi pa maruning mag-argue!
Sabi nga nila, if you have to flaunt it, then you never had it in the first place. :p
kilala ko ang pinag-uusapan ninyo. napakahaba kung mag blog. hindi pa marunong. wala akong ko maintindihan. wala akong makitang punto kundi ang mga diplomang nakapako sa kanto. mataas masyado ang bounce rate. ibig sabihin, umaalis agad ang napapagawi doon. siempre, walang panahon magbasa ang tao nang limang kilometrong litanya na walang katapusan.
tiningnan ko uli ang nakapako sa kanto. taka ako bakit di nya alam. na ang reading span nang mga blog readers ay iilang paragraphs lang.
Asus, paano na ito. naka enroll pa naman ako sa online!!!
Depende naman cguro sa accreditation status ng university that awards the diploma (mill)hehe. I believe that state universities that offer online studies are more credible than those private ones (opinion lang po).
Anyway, the good side is that, one can earn a degree while working full time. And the justification of this endeavor is when the accepting company where the graduate is an applicant makes no distinction between a degree earned through online from that of actual/ classroom experience, di ba?
true. depende pa rin naman yan sa calibre nung individual. at my former employer, i hired a number of employees na graduate nang isang online school and so far, wala namang reklamo ang former employer ko.
Ay tumbok mo mudra! How about yung mga HONORIS CAUSITIS dyan sa tabi tabi?? Tawagin ka bang hungry CPA chorva?!?! HAHHAHAHHAHA……………
oo nga naman ano. kasi madami nang honoris ngaun sa atin. baka meron nang ph d in legal corruption, master’s in malacanang administration hekhekhek
PWede din nestor…swak swak na kurso yan. hahahha.
I won’t be criticizing online courses because I studied for my investment and insurance licenses online instead of going to a formal classroom because of time availability at work. But I took my license exam the same time and the same way as those who took the classroom setting. I passed all my tests the first time while there were those who took the formal classroom training and failed the tests. They had to wait for another six months to try again. So it all depends on the person and their ability to comprehend on their own.
meron pang isa. eto impostor:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_army_infiltrator
A Texas man with no military experience tricked the Army into letting him enter a reserve unit as a noncommissioned officer earlier this year, a deception that placed an untrained soldier in a leadership position in a time of war, an Associated Press investigation has found.
The revelation comes just months after the Army drew criticism for failing to flag the suspicious activities of the Army psychiatrist now charged with killing 13 and wounding dozens of others at Fort Hood.