My experience is that Ivy grads, especially PhDs, have no rough edges. Which is a good thing.
>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 > > _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
