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Student Doesn’t Know Best

Note: The following was originally posted on January 16th, 2005. I wasn’t very good about maintaining my blog back then and lost the 3-4 posts from this era, but thankfully the Internet Wayback Machine saved them for me.

One of the disadvantages of going to a small school is that you get to know everyone on campus. Anonymity, a luxury at many large universities, is a danger for the ‘at-risk’ student (as it was for me when I went to Moo-U), but at times it was nice to be able to blend into the crowd.

This is my third full-time semster at this school, and I’ve gotten to know the students in my department rather well. One of the biggest annoyances during this week has been listening to students say, “I won’t need this class in the real world,” or “I won’t need this class to be a ____.” Read the rest of this entry »