Higher education is changing, but the "formative parts of the college experience—growing up, making friends, and making mistakes—aren’t going anywhere," Isabel Fattal writes. The Wonder Reader explores what it feels like to be a young person right now:
Gee, I thought higher education was about improving one's mind, not all these constructs of Social Darwinism
As long as you remember this: in 4 years of college there is plenty of time for studying and plenty of time for partying! Just don't try to do them in the SAME SEMESTER! Decide when to do which
Forgive me, but we could send all the 18 year olds to extended Summer camp for that, and it would cost a fraction of the price. Universities had 2 raisons d'être: student academic work leading to learning, and serious research. Now AI does much of the former and Trump is slashing $ for the latter.
Sometimes it takes the 4 years to accomplish the Summer camp part.