What a Northwestern grad would do differently

Pea
Mon, 15 Mar 2010 23:27:42 +0000

All I ask is that kids don’t just pick a name off a Princeton Review List.



Of course you shouldn’t. I took my daughter to look at colleges. Harvard had been her number one choice until we visited. Then she realized that she didn’t really want to go there.



I would say about 1/5th about the people I knew had this experience. They always looked so sad, and that made everyone else sad. You really haven’t lived until you’re in a room full of the highest achieving students in the country and they all look like they want to shoot themselves.



This can’t be true. Anyone who gets to go to college is lucky and they should remember that while they are there.



Maybe professors need more extensive training in teaching or higher rewards for helping undergrads research.



You’re all over the map. Now you think your professors weren’t good teachers and undergrads should be doing research?

If you think it is tough finding a job with a college degree you should think about what it would be like to try to find one if you never got to go to college. You’d be facing minimum wage options with no hope that would ever change until you got an education.