College USA: 4 year party or higher education?

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seems these days colleges have customers for students.

― -- Mike Hanley, Friday, 8 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

They're getting what they're asking for, then.

― Josh (Josh), Friday, 8 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

thank you josh. Only you answered .

― -- Mike Hanley, Monday, 11 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I always try and spread the love where needed, Mike.

― Josh, Monday, 11 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Well some of us aren't college types, if you get my drift.

― Ally, Monday, 11 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Or some of us are currently attending college but feel that even bringing up the topic will slowly but surely set us on the path to homocidal destruction. Or at least a few minutes of teeth grinding.

― Nicole, Monday, 11 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Still you can comment. I mean, is Grad school the new college, and is college now just extended highschool?

― -- Mike Hanley, Monday, 11 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'll swing at this. College USA is a boot camp compared to College UK. I spent a semester at Glasgow University ("old, respected") and found that 1) none of the reading was really expected since the books weren't in the bookstore and only possibly in the library 2) the meaning of early Soviet cinema can be gleaned by assessing the director's changing reputations 3) typewritten papers were above and beyond call of duty 4) papers in general were scarcely required 5) excessive zeal and interest in the material met with scorn from pupils and teachers alike, with an undertone of "why don't you just sit back and let me teach the class"? This is extreme I know. My media studies class was okay, besides the professor apparently never having heard of semitiotics or critical theory.

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 11 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

What *is* "semitiotics" ?

― mark s, Monday, 11 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

That'sodd. I would expect the USA to have lower standards. But maybe excessive work demands are a sign of unintelligence.

― -- Mike Hanley, Monday, 11 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

These days, college is what you do when you don't want to go to work.

― Otis Wheeler, Monday, 11 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

AMEN TO THAT MISTER WHEELER

― Josh (shootin' for a perfesser job, oh yeah), Monday, 11 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

> Or some of us are currently attending college but feel that even bringing up the topic will slowly but surely set us on the path to homocidal destruction. Or at least a few minutes of teeth grinding.

Wait'll you see law school. Hee.

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Monday, 11 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

mark - I guess the study of ancient Jewish dietary habits is just too far "out there" for you Brits to take seriously. Reception theory falls flat w/o that kind of historical background - but did they listen???

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 12 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

six months pass...

felt fish?

― Mike Hanle y, Thursday, 20 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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