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At Penn, students can get credit for ‘Wasting Time on the Internet’

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Re: At Penn, students can get credit for ‘Wasting Time on the Internet’

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Post by iamdave »

Havvy wrote: post #16
taylorbuley wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As part of its so-called core curriculum, Penn typically requires students in all schools to take a writing class. They kinda go out of their way to offer a variety of interesting options because writing is not everyone's thing. My class was "Man in Nature" and featured Thorough, Emerson, etc. It focused a lot on being in nature, which is also atypical for an English class, just not the kind of atypical that gets rep…

I read Thorough in high school. So it's not that atypical...

Surely you mean Thoreau...? Given that you read him in high school..

Re: At Penn, students can get credit for ‘Wasting Time on the Internet’

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Post by untilHellbanned »

Love the idea, and how it exposes the absurd rip-off of american higher education. $60K a year to waste time on the internet? That's what you do in most classes anyway. I seriously love this guy. He and UPenn are just flagrantly robbing all these rich, Ivy League kids' parents. Now I really don't feel bad about Googling the course material the 10 minutes before the MIT classes I TA'd.

Re: At Penn, students can get credit for ‘Wasting Time on the Internet’

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Post by autokad »

untilHellbanned wrote: post #22

Love the idea, and how it exposes the absurd rip-off of american higher education. $60K a year to waste time on the internet? That's what you do in most classes anyway. I seriously love this guy. He and UPenn are just flagrantly robbing all these rich, Ivy League kids' parents. Now I really don't feel bad about Googling the course material the 10 minutes before the MIT classes I TA'd.

I go to UPenn. I grew up with a single parent making less than 15k a year, but that is less important then the fact that I find classes at Upenn incredibly rewarding in both education and improving my industry skills.

Its an undergrad class ENG 111 (15 seats), so I imagine those who take it costs them around 3600$, so its hardly fair to say they are spending 60k to waste time on the internet. Who knows, maybe people who take it find it rewarding / helpful.

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Post by [deleted] »

untilHellbanned wrote: post #22

Love the idea, and how it exposes the absurd rip-off of american higher education. $60K a year to waste time on the internet? That's what you do in most classes anyway. I seriously love this guy. He and UPenn are just flagrantly robbing all these rich, Ivy League kids' parents. Now I really don't feel bad about Googling the course material the 10 minutes before the MIT classes I TA'd.

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Re: At Penn, students can get credit for ‘Wasting Time on the Internet’

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Post by untilHellbanned »

autokad wrote: post #23
untilHellbanned wrote: post #22

Love the idea, and how it exposes the absurd rip-off of american higher education. $60K a year to waste time on the internet? That's what you do in most classes anyway. I seriously love this guy. He and UPenn are just flagrantly robbing all these rich, Ivy League kids' parents. Now I really don't feel bad about Googling the course material the 10 minutes before the MIT classes I TA'd.

I go to UPenn. I grew up with a single parent making less than 15k a year, but that is less important then the fact that I find classes at Upenn incredibly rewarding in both education and improving my industry skills. Its an undergrad class ENG 111 (15 seats), so I imagine those who take it costs them around 3600$, so its hardly fair to say they are spending 60k to waste time on the internet. Who knows, maybe people…

Of course, focusing on details. It is more about spending money on something that you can easily do for free. This was not to pick on UPenn. Rather it was more to point out the irony of this professor's class when thinking about the value of American college education.

Re: At Penn, students can get credit for ‘Wasting Time on the Internet’

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Post by hueving »

iamdave wrote: post #21
Havvy wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I read Thorough in high school. So it's not that atypical...

Surely you mean Thoreau...? Given that you read him in high school..

His name didn't appear that often...
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