Why should I stay in College?

starbright
Wed, 19 Oct 2011 22:54:06 +0000

Well given you are so much more intelligent that your classmates, I find it remarkable that you would generalize your six weeks of education at one school to all higher education.

I can tell you I really don’t work in a university like the one you describe (yet my students are business students, just like you). My freshman students, for the most part, are intelligent, hardworking, thoughtful, and mature. They offer utterly fantastic comments and ideas in our discussions every week. It appears almost everyone has done the required reading, they care about the material, and they show a genuine curiosity with the questions they ask. We also have a lot of fun (there is a lot of good humor in our classroom and we’ve gotten to know each other quite well). About 30% of my students are from other countries and we cover all continents, 75% are fluent in two languages, 45% speak 3 or more (and collectively our class can speak 14 different languages fluently).

Maybe you are in the wrong university. I think you ought to transfer to one that matches you better before you decide to throw out the baby with the bathwater.