Current Events, Society, The Fall of the West
I am not sure how I feel about this. I have to mull. Colleges are now charging more per semester based on the expected earnings of the career path being taken. ( subscription required Treason Times so full article after the cut, because I love all my many reader )
Essentially, it confirms what most of my friends and I in science and engineering programs knew all along; that college degrees are not created to be equal. It is quite frustrating to spend hours working on one homework problem for a dynamics class, but my friends who are english majors or "insert oppressed minority" studies major do next to nothing for their degree.
If anything, the opposite pricing should be true. Do we really need more English, Poli Sci, Communications, and such degrees? Or do we need more engineering, physical and chemical sciences, or even business and finance degrees? I think the latter.
Too many students gravitate to those degrees, because they are quite easy. I took two political science courses at Penn State, spent an hour each night before mid terms and finals studying, and got As. Oh yeah, the professors also game copious amounts of notes and study guides, because apparently reading the text and taking notes was too challenging. I didn't attend a single class of an Art History class for a half of a semester and ended up with a B+ final grade.
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I dated a chick a few years back who was a year away from her polisci degree. Unfortunately I can't recall the school.
I made a comment about the "GOP" to which she replied, "What's the GOP?"
I'm not saying there aren't smart folks with varying degrees, but it's real hard to skate through a class for those who create or produce.
To my mind this is the school's way of extorting from the government and empowering lesser studies, as campuses are now usually run by lifetime teachers and the very academics that disdain innovative or productive thought. It's win-win for them. They claim poverty and either get more free money they can channel to their fatass cushy positions, or more of the evil doers and makeers are punished in favor of the "thoughtful" and "nuanced" like-minded people.
The scourge of communism didn't die. It got better at PR.
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