{"id":20,"date":"2007-10-21T17:08:55","date_gmt":"2007-10-21T23:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aspiringeconomist.com\/index.php\/2007\/10\/21\/the-college-experience\/"},"modified":"2007-10-21T18:33:32","modified_gmt":"2007-10-22T00:33:32","slug":"the-college-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/aspiringeconomist.com\/index.php\/2007\/10\/21\/the-college-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"The College Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"post_body\"><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ksu.edu\/sasw\/anthro\/wesch.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Wesch<\/a>, a cultural anthropologist at Kansas State University, asks 200 students their thoughts on a <em>Vision of Students Today<\/em>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o\" target=\"_blank\">The video is available on YouTube.<\/a> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Having attended Kansas State University, the University of Minnesota, and the University of Idaho I can say that this video does a decent job of capturing the culture in a mainstream public university.  More and more students are going to college today to send the right signals to potential employers, learning is an afterthought.  The problem with mainstream universities  isn&#8217;t large classes or professors that don&#8217;t know students names: it&#8217;s apathetic students.  As an undergraduate and now as a TA, I&#8217;m constantly amazed at how little work undergraduate students are willing\/expect to put into their classes.<\/p>\n<p>The video points to the massive amount of time students spend online.   While the internet can be a distraction there is no doubt that it has  facilitated the free flow of information that was only a dream even a few decades ago.    I&#8217;m reminded of a quote in Good Will Hunting when Will criticsizes an arrogant Ivy League student:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;You wasted $150,000 on an education you coulda got for a buck fifty in late charges at the public library.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Today, you don&#8217;t even need to go to the library.  When hardworking students get so much out of their college education and others  get so little, it is hard to blame the system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Wesch, a cultural anthropologist at Kansas State University, asks 200 students their thoughts on a Vision of Students Today. The video is available on YouTube. Having attended Kansas State University, the University of Minnesota, and the University of Idaho I can say that this video does a decent job of capturing the culture in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/aspiringeconomist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/aspiringeconomist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/aspiringeconomist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aspiringeconomist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aspiringeconomist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/aspiringeconomist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/aspiringeconomist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aspiringeconomist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aspiringeconomist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}