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by musictubes
1158 days ago
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When I decided to go to grad school in Econ I had to take all the math classes I didn’t take during my undergrad years. Community college was the obvious choice. I had 2 really good professors and one hack. This was from 2002-2005. I also tried to take a “fun” class each time I took a math class just to break up the grind. Creative writing was an eye opener. Most of the stuff turned in was dreadful, sometimes in style/substance but especially in effort. Short stories meant 2 paragraphs for a lot of them. The final story of the semester was supposed to be the culmination of the class. I turned in a 7 page story. While several people were enthusiastic about reading it for critique most were not. One guy even told me, “I’m sure it’s good but dude, I’m never going to reading anything that long.” I asked the prof about the lack of effort and awful results from the class. I was in a BFA program in film and photography for undergrad and the critique sessions were intense. Part of what drove us, me at least, was fear of embarrassing myself in front of everyone with lousy work. This creative writing class was an elective and presumably the people that signed up for it should have been at least interested in the topic. She said that you have to understand that most of the people there were really pushing themselves to be at college at all. Most had never developed successful academic habits or understood what it takes to seriously engage with a topic. “That’s why they are at community college instead of a 4 year school” was left unsaid but was clearly implied. I’m of the opinion that marginal students, either in skill or interest, are more likely to just not try college at all these days instead of wasting their money and time. That’s actually a good thing IMO. |
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I was always dumbfounded when I saw how people just couldn’t care less. Its as if they already predetermined this is isn’t worth it or they’re not good enough idk.
Advisors were also awful, they would actually encourage you to not finish ur degree in 2 years and take longer.