Doug Henwood said...."I was at Yale from 1971 to 1975 when the English department was really cooking - Bloom, Hartman, de Man, Derrida sometimes. You may find that gang to be full of it - I didn't, and still don't - but it was intellectually very alive. And so were conversations over lunch."
is it possible that you're experience is colored by the fact that the department in your major was really good? the sense i get from my peers who have gone all over is that the department in your major being really good is a pretty good predictor of satisfaction (warning, that isn't backed up by a statistical study). I tend to be not so much anti-Ivy league schools, but i am very anti people becoming obsessed with going to an ivy league school without even knowing whether they have a good department in your field. I know a decent amount of people who felt suffocated going to an Ivy league school and felt like they were choking on pretentious garbage. it doesn't seem like the uniformly great experience you're making it out to be, but again, i wouldn't know because i don't have (and don't want) personal experience. -- -Nathan Tankus ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
