Class of 2011

RBM
Sun, 13 May 2007 14:09:44 +0000

Taxguy – Where you are right in the sense that I was not complete is that Bentley CS and mathematical sciences are good. But only because their econ, accounting, and finance is so good! (mostly applying to the latter). The CS professors are actually geniuses generally with more than 30 years of experience leading the field.

All majors are not equal, however. Management, for example, is a complete joke. So is international studies. If you want to major in that, which there are a lot of people who do, you are MUCH better off going to another school that offers a lot more courses (though, Bentley has some cool short-term study abroads, such as the one that goes to Ghana and Chile). The political science courses are a joke, though. Whoever heard of taking a terrorism class, missing more than half the classes, and then taking a final exam that had no essay questions… and still getting an A? I hadn’t, until I took it, and that’s how everyone played it. Sad enough that’s just the reality of how easy such courses are.

And word to the wise: Even if there ARE hard courses, one of two things will happen. The first is that the entire class collaborates in order to cheat through everything without having to learn the material. The second is that, if they can’t do the former, demand for such classes drops entirely. I took a democratization course, one of the most interesting I ever took, but most people in the class found it too difficult. Never seen it offered since.