Threads arguing that the best measure of an education is ROI or future earnings, as if all education were vocational training or highly educated people shouldn’t forego the big bucks to do good in the world.
“Parents who want their dear child to pursue the performing arts at a premier program but then expect them to double major in another demanding major.”
–Does this mean you don’t believe in double-degree programs, like those at Oberlin, Northwestern, JHU-Peabody? If so, is it because you don’t think anybody can do it, or that, if they do, their results aren’t good?
I would assume that the double major is not the problem but rather the parent’s attitudes and expectations.
Threads where people cite the rankings as the only thing that matters.
“Is school X better for me than school Y?”
“Well, Y is ranked higher than X, so Y must be better.”
Or, the parents who deliberately go to a competing college’s CC page to rub salt in their wounds then cry foul when the tables are turned .
Ok, it’s not a thread but…when someone PMs you for information, you provide it and they don’t even say thank you.
On the other hand, I had another CCer send me a lovely handwritten thank you after I gave her some advice. It was lovely!
@LadyMeowMeow :
I think I know what @clarinetdad16 was talking about, it is the idea that the kid ‘has to’ dual major because studying music won’t give them a living, is impossible, won’t make them a lot of money, etc, it kind of goes along with the idea that college is strictly about vocational training and making the $$$…and it fundamentally is the idea that studying music performance is a waste of time, so better have something ‘real’. There are kids who do dual degrees at places like Oberlin, Vanderbilt, U Mich and other places because they personally they don’t want to do just music, want the academic courses but that also comes at a cost with the kid’s music and also time as well (many kids take 5 years to finish the dual degree, schools like Bard require a dual degree of music students and it is 5 year).
Lately, all the bickering.
What is annoying is the poster who asks a question, is supplied a (or several) very good answer(s) to that question, and also provided the link, so that the OP can read up more on the answer, only for the OP to respond with “Thank you for for the answer. How do you know all of that”?
No, @NorthernMom61, you’re absolutely wrong! How could you…Oh, wait.
←(in case it wasn’t obvious)
@dfbdfb You get it!
The increasing use of the word “fake” to describe another’s post that you don’t agree with.
Threads where the OP is long gone, and you can’t blame OP, as the thread has long gone off on a tangent, with opposing posters showing off how smart they are on a topic only they care about. And I keep getting dozens of notifications and keep returning to look at the thread, because I cannot help it, I sorta enjoy it.
Annoying: the proliference of some odd (sometimes alarmist) threads that have nothing to do with college, kids, or our lives. They sometimes remind me of one elderly great aunt who would clip articles to send us… It seems some posters do this often. I try to stay away from those.
Why did @ exampleuser get in?! I had a better score and essays!
C’mon people, we all know college admissions are a crapshoot, just be grateful for others acceptances, as they will be the same for you!
@lookingforward:
What kind of thing are you talking about (without mentioning a specific thread)…do you mean when someone posts about, let’s say global warming and its impact, something about let’s say North Korea launching a missle or blowing off a nuke? Just curious what is alarmist that doesn’t affect our lives (and it is just that, curiousity)
When the only participation by a member is when they post about the catastrophes that happen in their lives. It’s like a ‘look at me!’, an attention-getting device. No one could possibly have that many things happen to them. And as soon as one discussion dies down, you can be sure that another thread is on its way!
OK, this is not what I consider to be an annoying thread per se, but the annoying absence of the OP. Why can’t a phantom OP let us know that he/she is still following and may post again? Or if not, pop in on the third page and say something like, ‘Well, I’m glad my post has been popular, but I got my question answered,’ or ‘You guys went off in a fascinating tangent but I lost interest,’ or simply ‘Adios!’