Overrated/Underrated things about college

leafblade1354
Thu, 13 Jan 2011 17:07:37 +0000

Excellent, a place to rant and give happy speeches at the same time! :D

Overrated:

1. Textbooks for humanities classes. In my experience you only need each book once; go to the bookstore, skim it there, and save yourself $93028493.20

2. Orientation. Waste of money. Although I did get to hear a very nice speech…

3. “College experience.” Excuse me, but I’d rather not spend the same amount of money on dorms that I could on an apartment.

4. Breadth requirements, which need to tie themselves to a rock and throw themselves off a seaside cliff. >.< A lot of good it’s going to do me long-term to write term papers based on &@!!$#!% articles with obvious biases, although I understand that the professor had no other source of income on account of being inexcusably incompetent.

5. Small class sizes. If you’re not brave enough to yell out a question in a big lecture hall where the professor can’t see your face, you won’t ask the question close up. (Conversely, see underrated #4.)

Underrated:

1. Library. Also anyplace you can find entertaining books.

2. Yes, you can make awesome friends in lecture or lab. =)

3. Large campuses. Love wandering around and finding new little nooks and crannies. Especially important to a commuter, who ends up doing a lot of homework outside and who will usually find the most comfortable niche(s) on campus within three weeks.

4. Office hours. Definitely need to go meet some professors one-on-one…want research.

5. Good old-fashioned notebook. Unless you have one of those (expensive, heavy, and fragile) tablet things, I’d like to see you doodle on your notes without one.

6. Laptop. You would not believe the amount of work you can get done in class while listening to some professors.

7. Free printer.