Going to college unready for it

[chequita guevara]

The best reason to take a well-rounded course of study is because the most important discoveries are generally on the fringes between fields. It's much easier to see the interrelationships between things if you know about more than one thing.

Furthermore, when you are exposed to a variety of subjects and views, you may find that want you thought you wanted to do is not what you want to do. More importantly, you may study for one field, and find yourself in a different field once you are working.

[Kuciwalker]

I've had plenty of exposure to other fields to have made a choice by now.

[chequita guevara]

Not really, no. High school classes are nothing like college. You speak from lack of experience.

[Kuciwalker]

I know.

However, at some point the content, if not the presentation, overlaps.

[chequita guevara]

If you go to the right school, you will be floored by the difference. I went to a pretty good school my first year, and it really opened my eyes. Went to a jr. college for a couple years after that, and it really sucked. It was like being back in high school. Finally went to DePaul in Chicago.

[Kuciwalker]

I actually find pretty much everything interesting.

I just know what I find more interesting than anything else.

[chequita guevara]

I thought American Lit. was pretty boring until I had the right professor.

[Kuciwalker]

There is no such thing as American literature.

[chequita guevara]

[GePap]

Actually Che, from what I have heard about Kuci's High School, and correlating that to my experience, most college classes would not be any better for Kuci than what he got in high school, which is one of the points of this entire thread, that colleges have to bring down their material to deal with the general level of unpreparedness from HS graduates.

As for heavy coure work, I never had that problem, for a variety of reasons. Some of the poor fools taking biochemistry and Arabic, or Chinese at the same time, now THEY had heavy coursework.

I have to give thanks though for the education I have had, even if I am 20,000 in debt because of it. I think both my HS and my University gave me a very well rounded education, and the sad part is that I have forgotten many of the things I had to learn in both areas-just too much info.I can't remember how to integrate for the life of me, and I have forgeten how to do use CAD programs and make technical drawings (had to take an entire year of technical drawing in HS).

What annoys me is that students going to both my HS and my University can opt out of more and more courses as time goes by.

[Jon Miller]

if Kuci doesn't beleive in american lit, then probably (no matter how good his calculus is) he is missing some part of his education

now, I wasn't paying attention, so that might have been a smart alecky comment

JM

[Ben Kenobi]

Because the purpose of that liberal arts education is to make you a well rounded citizen, as opposed to a hick who votes for a politician based on image, believes that Saddam ordered 9/11, and thinks that the Earth is only 6000 years old and that evolutionary biologists are agents of the devil.

I'm the product of a liberal arts education. Publicly schooled, and a history major in University.

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Jon Miller
if Kuci doesn't beleive in american lit, then probably (no matter how good his calculus is) he is missing some part of his education

America has produced no literature [worth reading].

(except for science fiction)

[Alexander's Horse]

Kuci is starting to grow on me

[chequita guevara]

Mark Twain - Willa Cather - Faulkner - Poe - Henry Miller - Hemingway . . . .