Comments on: Joe asks, “Why go to college?” http://dossy.org/2006/09/joe-asks-why-go-to-college/ Everything that comes out of Dossy, from the strange to the banal. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:35:37 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Joe Grossberg http://dossy.org/2006/09/joe-asks-why-go-to-college/comment-page-1/#comment-502 Joe Grossberg Fri, 29 Sep 2006 21:06:38 +0000 http://dossy.org/archives/000340.html#comment-502 My $.02: I would say that academics (including independent study, formal and otherwise) accounted for about 5% of my college experience. My $.02: I would say that academics (including independent study, formal and otherwise) accounted for about 5% of my college experience.

]]> By: Joe Manna http://dossy.org/2006/09/joe-asks-why-go-to-college/comment-page-1/#comment-501 Joe Manna Mon, 18 Sep 2006 14:14:04 +0000 http://dossy.org/archives/000340.html#comment-501 Thanks Dossy for your insight. It 'comforts' me that you see where I'm coming from. I will concur, as I did take a couple Linux courses and the instructor was a genius and it was nice to meet other people with similar goals and mindsets as me. I just never really pursued it 'cause of a lack of core curriculum as you mentioned. I am looking into next semester's courses and stuff, and will be working on more of a vocational start rather than general-ed stuff like Math, English, etc... for now. It's tough to get into it again, but reflecting back to my first college experience - I got into the flow and somewhat did enjoy it. Thanks again for letting me re-evaluate my decisions, and visiting my blog. Thanks Dossy for your insight. It ‘comforts’ me that you see where I’m coming from. I will concur, as I did take a couple Linux courses and the instructor was a genius and it was nice to meet other people with similar goals and mindsets as me. I just never really pursued it ’cause of a lack of core curriculum as you mentioned.

I am looking into next semester’s courses and stuff, and will be working on more of a vocational start rather than general-ed stuff like Math, English, etc… for now. It’s tough to get into it again, but reflecting back to my first college experience – I got into the flow and somewhat did enjoy it.

Thanks again for letting me re-evaluate my decisions, and visiting my blog.

]]> By: Julio http://dossy.org/2006/09/joe-asks-why-go-to-college/comment-page-1/#comment-500 Julio Mon, 18 Sep 2006 05:55:57 +0000 http://dossy.org/archives/000340.html#comment-500 Hey Dossy, did you ever think of meeting Girls as a reason for college? Only half kidding. Anyway, having gone to CUNY (both Queens College and Hunter College) I had the benefit of learning from some of the best minds - generally left-leaning of course in the various fields of sociology, economics and political science. Those were mandatory classes for a liberal arts college but for me they had the effect of breaking down the lowest common denominator thinking that I was trained for in my upbringing endlessly pounded by popular culture. For that I am thankful. The Computer Science/math/Accounting courses were plain vanilla as would be expected of those fields but they also prepared me to enter the workforce in various ways but mostly as we all know by having the piece of paper that counts for so much (too much in my opinion) in the outside world. Hey Dossy, did you ever think of meeting Girls as a reason for college? Only half kidding. Anyway, having gone to CUNY (both Queens College and Hunter College) I had the benefit of learning from some of the best minds – generally left-leaning of course in the various fields of sociology, economics and political science. Those were mandatory classes for a liberal arts college but for me they had the effect of breaking down the lowest common denominator thinking that I was trained for in my upbringing endlessly pounded by popular culture. For that I am thankful.
The Computer Science/math/Accounting courses were plain vanilla as would be expected of those fields but they also prepared me to enter the workforce in various ways but mostly as we all know by having the piece of paper that counts for so much (too much in my opinion) in the outside world.

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