Honors Perks

doubleplay
Wed, 06 Jun 2007 13:04:04 +0000

My son lived in Hume. He said the nerdiness depends on which hall you live on. He thought his hall had pretty cool kids for the most part, but a freind of his lived on another hall and it was a much different experience.
My son ended up joining a frat, so he liked having a quiet dorm to go back to. It’s very clean, the location is great (right next to freshman parking lot so your car is in your backyard).
He also thought the HOnors classes for stuff like Chemistry were better than the regular big classes. He felt like since certain classes were “weed out” classes, the big class teachers were not going out of their way to do the students any favors; whereas in the Honors classes they want all the students to succeed (assuming they’re putting in the effort).
The one class he didn’t particularly care for was the Science For Life Honors class. He thought he would have got a lot more out of it had he waited to take it after his freshman year.