WSJ snickers at Wes curriculum

direwolf
Mon, 22 Oct 2007 12:13:01 +0000

I’d go thru brainmelt at a school where all I could take for four years were general survey courses – “American Literature 1600-2000” etc. That would be like glorified high skul. I’ve looked thru a zillion course catalogs of the best schools, and they all have highly specialized courses in lots of subjects. The promise of drilling down on topics with profs who’ve really researched them themselves, that is the most exciting thing about applying to college, … 'cept maybe for the coed halls.