tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post1771702149960400550..comments2023-10-15T04:23:50.187-04:00Comments on College Misery: Why the College Campus Experience Still Matters. From LinkedIn.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-26709885828048712482013-02-03T15:16:09.555-05:002013-02-03T15:16:09.555-05:00I think that eventually the small college, campus-...I think that eventually the small college, campus-residential experience will be like the tour of Europe prior to coming out as a debutante. De rigueur for the fancy set, unimaginable to the rest of us.Frog and Toadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06377542172335502858noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-52255732746328791822013-02-03T09:50:11.895-05:002013-02-03T09:50:11.895-05:00LOL @ Strel
I did consider editing afterwards, bu...LOL @ Strel<br /><br />I did consider editing afterwards, but....meh....ChrryBlstrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02802638646237163409noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-72260504968833666652013-02-02T20:12:17.004-05:002013-02-02T20:12:17.004-05:00".... fuck Michale [sic] Bloomberg."
Th...".... fuck Michale [sic] Bloomberg."<br /><br />The Giant Mango hasn't had a decent mayor since Fiorello LaGuardia, and Ed Koch just died. So yeah, fuck Mike "People can't Spell my Mothafrakkin' Full First Name" Bloomberg.Strelnikovhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12660962615198939441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-84292016309482703872013-02-02T18:41:13.068-05:002013-02-02T18:41:13.068-05:00Let me tell you about the future, my friends. To b...Let me tell you about the future, my friends. To begin, I'll use an example from 50 years ago. Surely that anecdote will curb your enthusiasm for all this crazy internet stuff.Academic Monkeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07086078244493768565noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-58217602678304544722013-02-02T13:35:05.443-05:002013-02-02T13:35:05.443-05:00Or, to put it another way: just because you build ...Or, to put it another way: just because you build a campus that could serve as a set for a Hollywood movie set in the context of the "traditional college experience" (and that looks great on brochures, web pages, and tours), the students actually inhabiting said campus won't necessarily have anything approximating that experience (and, in fact, may not in part because they're Contingent Cassandrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08161652083031423415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-46205068868950720242013-02-02T13:23:49.551-05:002013-02-02T13:23:49.551-05:00I, too, think the author has good points, but at m...I, too, think the author has good points, but at my second-tier state u, which is rapidly (and deliberately) transforming from a commuter to a residential campus, even (perhaps especially, given the cost of dorm life) the "residential" students spend so much time working (on or, usually, off campus) to earn money to pay tuition and expenses that they don't have time to fully benefitContingent Cassandrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08161652083031423415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-34977556169076880992013-02-02T10:21:45.184-05:002013-02-02T10:21:45.184-05:00I made the move from a gigantic, faceless communit...I made the move from a gigantic, faceless community college to a pretty SLAC in the pacific northwest last year.<br /><br />Talk about a change. The SLAC experience is unbelievably nice. Students truly get a full and wonderful campus life, and there's nothing like it. The community that is established here, and which they can partake in, so far outstrips what my students faced in my old job, Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-69441657502593082802013-02-02T06:25:38.412-05:002013-02-02T06:25:38.412-05:00I agree with this article for the most part with t...I agree with this article for the most part with the exception of two things: top colleges do not necessarily desire to constantly admit a better class, but instead admit as many first-year students as possible; fuck Michale Bloomberg.ChrryBlstrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02802638646237163409noreply@blogger.com