College professor told me to transfer to a Community College!!

[wbksoft]

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As she is an English professor I assume that she thinks that the liberal arts are the most important aspect of a college education, and essential to success. Judging by the organization of your post, I can see why she would doubt your ability when it comes to writing. She likely doesn’t, or at least didn’t, know much about computer science, but it isn’t too great a leap to imagine that if a student is not very good at something as basic and essential to all disciplines as writing, that the same student wouldn’t be too successful in college.</p>

<p>In short, I can see why she made the judgment, and it surprises me that you even bother to post this story after graduating. Perhaps you still doubt your ability even after all of these years?

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<p>Does it really bother you that much that I didn’t use the return key too liberally throughout my post? This is just an internet message board, who cares?</p>

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I’m going to remain mostly neutral for this post as I don’t really want to get into an argument. However, I will say that writing is EXTREMELY important no matter what you are going in. For your field, being able to write good documentation inside your code and out, being able to express your ideas (as, computer science is more than just being a code monkey), etc. etc. are all essential in the job environment. Writing classes are important and who knows…maybe that is what she was getting at, but in a indirect way.

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<p>I have to agree with you on that one, but her argument was that my inability/disinterest/unwillingness to do well in her class meant that I wouldn’t do well in other classes. Clearly she was wrong, since I ended up with a 3.5 GPA. (I know that’s not the best GPA at the school I went to, but at least it allowed me to graduate with honors.)</p>