I went to Fla.Atlantic Univ. which had a branch using retired business men as professors. I was a business major,marketing. Our classes were beyond hard and you really had to be into it to get by.For some reason after a lackluster high school and first two years of college I seemed to thrive on what FAU had to offer.
I'll never forget my hardest class.It was Business Mgmt. 487 at the fourth year level which today would have been on the graduate level if they gave out questions as hard as this one.Which they don't.
The professor gave us a scenario of a small business,a clothing store within a resort that was doing OK but wanted to do better.
Our job was to tell what he had to do to make it better. Everyone looked high and low for the answer,studied book after book,read whatever possible but no one seemed to have the answer.
I gave what I thought would help the store.
In the end we all asked the professor what the answer was.
He calmly said:
Oh there was no answer to that one!!
There really wasn't much you could do.After all it's a business inside of a business.You will be graded on the level of solutions you gave.
In other words we had been given a test question that was half our grade that had no answer! About as hard as it gets. It was the essence of college back in the day:teach the student to think. Accomplish that and he's a successful student.
You’re right RG.
My classes were hard. Economics I would consider the hardest, Statistics was a killer. Bear in mind back then we had no calculators.
I did go through a period of liberalism. I was taking a course in Social studies in junior college....forget the full title.
I had a handsome teacher, bearing in mind that I was in my early 20’s at the time.
I so wanted to impress him I wrote a paper called “Why I am an Atheist. I STILL HAVE IT!
He gave me an A++++++.
Heh.
Then there was my professor who was a nuclear physicist. This was back right when 3 mile island began its meltdown.
To impress him I wrote a paper on 3 mile island. Yes I did.
Very interesting. Ask me. I am an expert.
Ah, the memories.