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However, this student is not satisfied. I am not only interested in my major. I am actually interested in certain areas of the humanities, such as classic literature and economics, and in the sciences such as biology and chemistry. I suppose I should feel fortunate that one of these four, economics, will fit into my curriculum. However I will be unable to take the rest of them because humanities requirements in 2009 Designer Handbagswhich I am less interested, the requirements which allow the school to provide the minimum, take precedence in the core.
As far as English goes I will be one of the first to claim that a strong command of written and spoken language is important for my life outside academia. Personally I believe a direct approach at teaching me these language skills than an inteGucci bags,rpretation course would be more useful and thus more aReplica Bagsppropriate for me. Unfortunately, this type of course is not available to fulfil my core requirements.
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It's the last week of classes and I have a final paper due. The assignment is to be based on some personal revelation and I have finally found it. Valarie, my English instructor has helped me finally see the through my previous draft, which was, in reality, a large complaint against the English class specificly. I had intendReplica Bagsed it to be an argument for more choice in the engineering curriculum in my particular school, CMU. Now realize that it is not particular at all. The same situation would arise in all universities, because they all have the same rules, the same system, and that is exactly what David Noble was trying Louis Vuittonto say in "Technology as People", the eighth chapter of his book, "America by Design".
I really do like being here at CMU. It's a school with an excellent reputation for my major, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and it has interesting technical lectures as well as interesting people.
Dispite my positive feelings, I alsLouis Vuitton Bags,o have some disputes. I am not SuperStudent by any means. When I accepted I new I would probably be in the middle of the class ranking, or perhaps slightly below. Federal law offers me an option to this: I am allowed to define my own minimum full-time course load by law because of my various learning disabilities, but I hate to use this as an excuse. I also do not wish to spend eight or more years as an undergraduate because onLouis Vuitton 2009 Handbags the one hand this would be a large chunk of my life in which most students would already have a graduate degree. On the other hand I already do not know how I am paying for only four or possibly five years of my education and any additional years would be even more financially painful.
David Nobel complains that engineering schools were designed completely ignoring the Flexner Report of 1910. Aberham Flexner was an educational reformer who opened his own medical school . His "unorthodox methods" included, among other things, students being free to work at their own pace, which allowed them to start their college educations much earlier. To some his methods may seem strange, but heGucci Replica Handbags was respected as the Carnegie Foundation commissioned his report to review medical education in 1910, and due his findings almost half of the one hundred fifty five schools reviewed were closed. (FLEXNER, Abraham, An Autobiography (1960); Numbers, R.L., ed., The Education of American Physicians: Historical Essays (1980))] However, due to the setup of the system, as I mentioned before, I do not have the resources, either time or money, to spend as much time as I could use in undergraduate education.
One excuse I have heard in support Gucci 2009 Handbagsof the core is some of the core requirements are made by the contributors to the school. For example, Mr. Multi the Millionaire says, "I will contribute this significant percentage of the budget, but if you do not require students to take English during their freshman year I will withdraw this funding." This seems to make the university provide the minimum they possibly can to fulfil these requirements.
Evidently they are inclined to provide the minimum and no more. Why should they? David quotes William E. Wickenden, "The very word university comes from the Latin word for corporation..." Why would a corporation want to put money into something that will not pay back. Obviously it is wiser to put more money into what will bring the corporation more returns. In the case of engineering curriculums, why should a school administrator put money into more humanities courses when his school is known for it's engineering curriculum? Perhaps some students don't want to take humanities in the first place, in which case they are not going to care how much money is poured into the courses. The students bring the money and once they are in the school they are going to say,Gucci bags "These humanities courses are not very good.", but this does not matter. As long as they are attending a school in which their future employers will look at their resume's and say "I see you went to a school that put a great deal of money into your major department", the students are happy and
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