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Re: The promise of college for our generation

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Originally Posted by sanddrag
The problem I take most notice of in college is the lack of quality education through innovative and creative means. Education has become boring and not very fun at all. Students sleep in class, or skip class, because they can't stand listening to a professor babble on through equations in a room with grey walls, fluorescent lights, and no windows. Professors are teaching how to calculate the way through designing the perfect screwdriver when half the students in the class haven't even held one.

This is a hands on generation. We don't like sitting in cramped little chairs with attached desks barely larger than a sheet of paper while being lectured at.

In many of my college classes, a 50% class average on a test would be considered normal. This is simply unnaceptable.

Education is failing. Nobody wants to stare at a board full of greek letters and complicated equations all day. Nobody wants to labor through a 1000 page math book solving hundreds of integrals. It isn't working. We aren't learning.

Education needs to become more applied and exciting. Right now, at least to me, it is quite boring.
This is what it is like in my highschool.

At the beggining of the year I needed 1 more credit. So I picked a class that would be easy, conceptual physics. haha, yes conceptual physics. The part that surprises me is that I would rather be in the conceptual class then be in then a normal physicis class. In conceptual physics we sit there for a class and learn this is this and that is that and to do this you use this equation. But the next class we do things that are hands on. We have periods of up to 3 weeks at a time where we just come into class, the teahcer talks for 2 mins then we are doing hands on things all class long. compared to the regents phsycis where they sit there for a week being lectured and get 1 class to do something.

This kinda proves the point that Jaine was making. Just because a school has a big name doesn't mean it is better for you. Yes if you go to a big school you may get a "better" (better being used very loosly here) degree. your degree isn't necessarily better, it just has a more recognized name on it. If you wanna go pay more for a better degree may get you a better job.

If you are going to a big name school because you want that degree with the fancy name on it so you can get a high paying executive position then you might as well go become a lawyer. (no offense, my dad is a lawyer and I don't even let him explain things to me)


Another reason that I dont wanna go to a big school like MIT ( though I wish I could use their facilities ) is that you pay more to pay the professors. At big school like that they put one teacher in a room with alot of people. (90+ maybe) so naturally that one teacher will get paid more for teaching more people and for teaching at MIT. So really what are you getting out of that, the teacher could careless if you learn. ( most anyways ) they wana go teach an getout of there. Not many of them will stay after class to show you this cool little thing-a-mabob they have. Or to help you with your own project. Or even help mentor a robotics team!

Now on the other hand if you look at the small schools, those professors aren't getting paid a whole lot so surely they must love their job. They must be doing what they love or else they would be teaching at MIT. And surely if they love their job that much it will carry through in how they teach you. Also not to mention a small class size and more likely more hands on things, more demos, better learning. ( you know the whole shabang)

THANK YOU COMMUNITY COLLEGE.......only for the first 2 years
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