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Originally Posted by EricH
I think that's what a lot of people are getting annoyed at. You're implying that they're getting by on C's and B's while partying. And let me tell you this: To date, I have taken ONE C (and a few retakes) in my engineering classes (Thermo II, to be exact); I have another 4 in my math courses. For me, it's a bunch of B's and a bunch of A's, and very little partying, and I'm in my 5th year.
I'm more annoyed because you're assuming all state schools are large. SDSM&T, where I go, has somewhere in the neighborhood of 2,000 undergrad students, and is a state school, and specializes in engineering/science. And we're highly rated. (Don't even get me going about our competition teams--we've had at least one year where every team--at that time, 12 of them--was in the top 10 at competition.)
Stereotyping negatively doesn't exactly make you the most liked person in the area that you stereotype negatively, for some reason.
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That wording was an error on my part. I meant large, not state. The purpose of my statement was to say it's an easier to get by with less at a large school with tons of students than at a smaller school where everyone knows you, and doing poorly can equate to everyone knowing you're not a good student. I'm quite sure there are just as good students at large schools.
Edit: My use of figurative language at times is a problem, considering how literal it appears. Taylor is far more eloquent than I am.