Questions for current Swarthmore students!

JER
Thu, 02 Mar 2006 23:31:55 +0000

I haven’t been a current student for some years (class of '03) and if there’s such a class as Intro to Macro they’ve changed the curriculum a bit since I was there. I was an econ honors minor, and I my experience was that the econ professors were a bit less accessible than the professors in physics (my course minor) and philosophy (my major). That’s not saying a whole lot, though: in physics and philosophy, I could walk over the department and talk with the professor pretty much whenever I wanted, even if it wasn’t office hours. In Econ I’d have to email the professor first and set up a particular time, but it would be the same day (or, rarely, the next morning).

Very different from Stanford Law, where I’ve had to wait a week to speak with a professor.