November 21, 2003

• If you’ve made it this far, you probably followed the link I sent.  Hopefully, I won’t have to send out any more mass e-mails, and will just use my blog to keep everyone updated w/ the life of Dan.

  
  

  Day #2 of blogging, such a funny word.

  
  

  So, I spent part of this week handing out surveys to people around Washington University, having people rate their college educational experience.  I think the format of my survey wasn’t the best because I was hoping to get certain results to prove some point, but that didn’t completely happen and I realized the questions were pretty limiting.

  
  

  However, at the end where I asked for general comments about people’s college experiences, I got some occassionally good stuff.  Here’s some excerpts:

  
  

  “Overall a good learning experience…however, often feel as if education has become more about grades and less about the actual knowledge you graduate with.”

  
  

  “I feel that by attending a prestigious college, I will have a better chance at success after college.  However, I think this has more to do with the fact I attended the college, not what I learned.”

  
  

  “[College] gets in the way of learning about the real world.  Lack of relevancy.  Outside the classroom is where most of the learning gets done in terms of personal growth.”

  
  

  “I always thought college would be more interactive and I haven’t found that in classes.  I was able to be much more creative in high school.  College has suppressed, in fact, my creativity in academics.

  
  

  And my favorite:

  
  

  “Too expensive.  Hounded by money.  Inadequate career prep.  Indifferent professors.  Grub was good.”

  
  

  So, there you have it, well, a little bit.  Hopefully I will be able to use this blog as a forum to do more open ended surveys, because I think it’s worth hearing things such as above.

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