Posted on 01/07/2009 10:51:13 AM PST by bs9021
Robot U by: Deborah Lambert, January 07, 2009
Those who say were turning into mind-numbed robots may find ample support for this view in the current crop of college applications. It seems that students submissions are so highly polished that theyve strayed from the real person into slick misguided attempts at perfection, says the Wall Street Journals Sue Shellenberger.
Pity the folks who have to wade through this stuff. A heavy dose of students overseas service work starts to read like a travelogue. And school personnel soon detect parental influence after an overload of heretofores and semicolons are sprinkled throughout the form. You know the lawyer-parent factor may have been at work, says Admissions Dean Jennifer Delahunty, adding that some parents even slip up and sign the applications themselves.
What admissions offices would like to see is something more personal. Tell us how you felt when you had to change a tire in the middle of a Minnesota winter. But whatever you do, dont stalk the dean...
(Excerpt) Read more at campusreportonline.net ...
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Owl_Eagle
When the stock market crashed,
Franklin Roosevelt got on the television
and didnt just talk about
the princes of greed, he said,
Look, heres what happened."
-Slow Joe Biden
To get any kind of a scholarship, you have to have performed community service. Since you stand to profit from the community service in the way of scholarship dollars, it’s no longer volunteering in the name of helping your fellow man out of the goodness of your heart.
The days of Enormous State University are rapidly drawing to a close. Much like the US government, their calculation was for not just endless growth, but endlessly increasing growth, endlessly increasing budgets, endlessly increasing student bodies and tuition, and explosively increasing government monies to pay for all of it.
It will be interesting to see what remains when the bubble bursts.
endlessly increasing student bodies.
Cafeteria food and the famous freshman 40 pounds.
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