There are certain fields of study I feel "hard work" is simply not good enough. Fields such as, medicine, law, mathematics, and most importantly, engineering. So, I'm an engineer (as defined by the school anyways). I go to a tier-1 researched based university (don't we all?). You'd think that in one of the best universities in the nation, in the college of engineering, there would be a bunch of smart people.
So during the lecture, you would have people interrupting with "can you repeat that" or "what?" or "can you explain that again different?"
Seriously. What the professor said wasn't that complicated at all, in fact, its pretty straight forward and perfectly logical, and you have swarms of people (who, I might add, have the standard engineering student stereotype, glasses, poor hygiene, bad body shape, acne, high squeaky voice, no apparent social skill, and have really really nice computers). You'd think with all that time they spend studying, they would develop some forms of thinking.
I believe universities are places where you learn and think on your own, not relay information exactly as the professor explained it, getting confused at the smallest variation. Memorization is the lowest form of thinking. It's simply memory recall. Sure, having good memory can be a talent. But good memory is perfectly possible to obtain. Higher level thinking, not so much.
(pause rant cause I need to go to class)
So what happens when the normal teaching method changes from spoon feeding to information just enough so you can fill in the gaps? People fail and we get a wonderful 11:1 faculty to student ratio. These people need to stop stalling the lecture, and learn what office hours are for -.-
Just another interesting observation. This is when you notice the difference in people, from those who truly deserved to get in, and people who had "easy" teachers from "easy" schools who went through those wonderful SAT summer training camps many times. These are the same people who always had tutoring, never failed to get perfects on homework but only did so-so on tests.
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its not just engineering.
the most basic concept of econ, the whole scarcity concept, we had people 1) trying to be a smart aleck. 2) who really don't know it and need to ask.
and its beyond annoying. my professor talked about comparative advantage for 40 minutes. like, wow, even bosanko didn't do that @_@
i concur with the different levels of students.. those who truly deserve to be at the school and those who got in just to add diversity. yes sounds sad if you only got in because of your ethnicity but its just not fair to all those who worked their butts off and get rejected because their high school was competitive, and they chose not to go to an easy high school where they could've been rank 1.
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