uni. prof, ask me anything

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Extremely weird and creepy school/class.
Kids usually says 'I'm from NYC", I played football, I like cats".

They don't say I went to such and such high school named XYZ which is private or public.



My kid has a copuple of classes with 16 kids and 19 kids.
I bet it was never said, and my kid never knows which ones went to public HS and which ones went to priviate HS.
Very weired school/class

Unless you are college profs, you really have no idea. What is really weird is PPs like you who drill down into details like this and think you know better than someone with 20 years’ experience. Your insecurities about sending your kid to public school are shining through.

I went to a college and a grad school, and also have college kids, so I have a good idea.
You are very weird.

Oh, like the vast majority of the board, you went to college! You have college kids! OP must be a liar because of your vast expertise. Your insecurity about sending your kids to private (despite the fact you are so educated but couldn’t afford it) is killing you. It’s not weird at all.

You don't need to be an expert at all.
Did you know what kind of HS your classmates went in your college classes?
Very weird and creepy people

When I went to college I absolutely knew what HS my classmates went to, because we quite naturally talked about it. Some of the kids still wore sweatshirts or t-shirts from their high school. It was especially interesting to learn about the HS experiences of the kids from Alaska.

If you think it's "creepy and weird" for 18 year olds to discuss with each other where they went to HS, there's something creepy and weird about you tbh.

Maybe that's the kind of conversations losers have in college. I wouldn't know. There are lots of other things to talk about any nobody knows or cares what your pathetic high school was. Just like in grad school nobody cares where you went to undergrad.

Yes we were all students at an elite SLAC but do tell us what losers we were.

And oh yeah in grad school they had grad student social events and we talked about where we went to undergrad.

Now, nobody "cared" where the other people went to high school or undergrad in these cases - it did not confer any particular increase or decrease of status - but it was something that normal non-sociopathic humans (i.e. not you) will discuss in a social situation (I know you never get in those but perhaps you've heard that others often do).

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Why? What knowledge do you think you can pass along?

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Did you get Karen Allen high and then do her?

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Extremely weird and creepy school/class.
Kids usually says 'I'm from NYC", I played football, I like cats".

They don't say I went to such and such high school named XYZ which is private or public.



My kid has a copuple of classes with 16 kids and 19 kids.
I bet it was never said, and my kid never knows which ones went to public HS and which ones went to priviate HS.
Very weired school/class

Unless you are college profs, you really have no idea. What is really weird is PPs like you who drill down into details like this and think you know better than someone with 20 years’ experience. Your insecurities about sending your kid to public school are shining through.

I went to a college and a grad school, and also have college kids, so I have a good idea.
You are very weird.

Oh, like the vast majority of the board, you went to college! You have college kids! OP must be a liar because of your vast expertise. Your insecurity about sending your kids to private (despite the fact you are so educated but couldn’t afford it) is killing you. It’s not weird at all.

You don't need to be an expert at all.
Did you know what kind of HS your classmates went in your college classes?
Very weird and creepy people

When I went to college I absolutely knew what HS my classmates went to, because we quite naturally talked about it. Some of the kids still wore sweatshirts or t-shirts from their high school. It was especially interesting to learn about the HS experiences of the kids from Alaska.

If you think it's "creepy and weird" for 18 year olds to discuss with each other where they went to HS, there's something creepy and weird about you tbh.

Maybe that's the kind of conversations losers have in college. I wouldn't know. There are lots of other things to talk about any nobody knows or cares what your pathetic high school was. Just like in grad school nobody cares where you went to undergrad.

“Losers” and “pathetic”? You seem to have an outsized, angry reaction to this topic and a complete inability to understand that people think or interact differently than yourself. It actually reminds me of my neurodivergent kid (whom I love) and send to social skills class.

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Anonymous wrote:R1, humanities field, with strong undergrads programs (think Brown, Gtown, Tufts). Fire away.

What does "R1" mean? Do you teach at a public university or private? How large is it? Is it in the DC area?

[Anonymous]

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Extremely weird and creepy school/class.
Kids usually says 'I'm from NYC", I played football, I like cats".

They don't say I went to such and such high school named XYZ which is private or public.



My kid has a copuple of classes with 16 kids and 19 kids.
I bet it was never said, and my kid never knows which ones went to public HS and which ones went to priviate HS.
Very weired school/class

Unless you are college profs, you really have no idea. What is really weird is PPs like you who drill down into details like this and think you know better than someone with 20 years’ experience. Your insecurities about sending your kid to public school are shining through.

I also wonder how pp knows what information kids share? I knew where everyone went to HS when I was in college. I think it’s common when you have a college with lots of private school kids. If most students went to public school, people just assume everyone attended the public HS where they lived. I was a public school kid, but lots of my friends went to private (many boarding) so the answer to the “where did you go to school” question wasn’t obvious. As someone else noted above, some kids also tend to wear their HS gear.

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What can we as parents do to make sure our kids are well prepared for college?

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Anonymous wrote:R1, humanities field, with strong undergrads programs (think Brown, Gtown, Tufts). Fire away.

What does "R1" mean? Do you teach at a public university or private? How large is it? Is it in the DC area?

I believe it's R1 classified research university.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_research_universities_in_the_United_States

I noticed another alleged professor also mentioned R1, so I guess it's a significant destination among professors.

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Since this is anon, answer honestly - Do you think tenure is really necessary, or a perk that is just a part of the profession?

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Anonymous wrote:My kid went to college and suffered the start of a serious mental illness—schizophrenia. There was no prior history of this illness. I was very upset at how the college managed the issue, since child also had rapidly declining executive function and energy levels.

Any thoughts OP on how to better handle mental health?

But that's exactly the age when schizophrenia hits - especially in males. Especially if there is family history (you say "no prior" which I assume is the student). You can't expect colleges to manage everything. A lot of students, especially schizophrenics who think everything is fine, won't use student health services. https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/childhood-schizophrenia/symptoms-causes/syc-20354483#:~:text=In%20most%20people%20with%20schizophrenia,age%2013%20is%20extremely%20rare.

You would expect colleges to do a little more with all the practice they’ve had with the serious mental illnesses, no? Really the schools do nothing until it’s way too late to correct course.

A small but important point—several mental illnesses the patient has no idea they’re sick. None. They are not avoiding it. The sick person doesn’t know! Americans would be a little more understanding of someone with age-related dementia, a stroke, or a brain injury. Mental illness is seen as a “lack of effort”

It would be nice if top collages accepted students into stem programs with vision and/or hearing disabilities. Instead, they get downgraded in high school and told they “can’t participate” in X competitive club because they can’t (do sign language, enlarge papers, ect..)….then the same students can’t get into top collages as the collages wonder why no competitive clubs?
There is a reason students with disabilities become adults that have trouble getting good jobs. I saw a dismal article where a deaf lady had a PhD in Chemical Engineering. Despite how brilliant she would have to be just for collages to take her, she got her PhD and literally watched as everyone else had jobs while employers skipped her over. I think people feel it’s a success if a student with disabilities just works as a Walmart cashier in life, no matter how brilliant and hard working they are.
I have had parents arrogantly brag that they have runcharities in their kid’s name, have an older sister “help” with the other kid’s National winning projects, join the stem high school faculty and run the competitive club their kid is in, have others take their home based programming competitions for them, and have four summers of unpaid internships at uncle’s/friend’s small coding company (that they show up for only a few weeks). It all sure looks great on the resume for a top collage…….
These same ultra competitive “if I can get away with it, I’m smarter than you and deserve it” parents also gripe about how collage should only be based on EC, grades, and scores alone. That’s because it rigged in the favor of their kids for these areas.
Done with my rant.

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Extremely weird and creepy school/class.
Kids usually says 'I'm from NYC", I played football, I like cats".

They don't say I went to such and such high school named XYZ which is private or public.



My kid has a copuple of classes with 16 kids and 19 kids.
I bet it was never said, and my kid never knows which ones went to public HS and which ones went to priviate HS.
Very weired school/class

Unless you are college profs, you really have no idea. What is really weird is PPs like you who drill down into details like this and think you know better than someone with 20 years’ experience. Your insecurities about sending your kid to public school are shining through.

I went to a college and a grad school, and also have college kids, so I have a good idea.
You are very weird.

Oh, like the vast majority of the board, you went to college! You have college kids! OP must be a liar because of your vast expertise. Your insecurity about sending your kids to private (despite the fact you are so educated but couldn’t afford it) is killing you. It’s not weird at all.

You don't need to be an expert at all.
Did you know what kind of HS your classmates went in your college classes?
Very weird and creepy people

I did - because I wasn’t a social reject. Where are you from is a common way to start a conversation.
Here’s how it looks:
Me (at state university) “Hi, so where are you from?
Them “NoVA.”
Me: “Oh, me too! Where did you go to school?”
Them: “Langley.”
Me: “Oh, i don’t know anyone from there but I knew some Potomac kids….”
See this is what it looks like when you have normal social skills.

You did - becasue you probably went to a communter school or a instate school where bunch of local kids gather together.

Here's how it looks:

Me: what's up guys, where are you guys from
Kid 1: NYC
Kid 2: Boston
Kid 2: How about you?
Me: NOVA
Kid 1: What the heck is NOVA?
Me: Northern VA, it's a boring place.
Kid 1: Cool
Me: Cool, you guys want to come to a party?
Kid 1, Kid 2: Sure

See this is what it looks like when you go to an interesting school.
Nobody fukcing know and care about your HS LMAO

NP. You are a complete weirdo. Stop derailing the thread with this nonsense.

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Do politics affect the way you treat or the way you grade students who are of a different political mindset than you? Be honest…..

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Do you see any correlation between number of APs taken and academic performance in college?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Extremely weird and creepy school/class.
Kids usually says 'I'm from NYC", I played football, I like cats".

They don't say I went to such and such high school named XYZ which is private or public.



My kid has a copuple of classes with 16 kids and 19 kids.
I bet it was never said, and my kid never knows which ones went to public HS and which ones went to priviate HS.
Very weired school/class

Unless you are college profs, you really have no idea. What is really weird is PPs like you who drill down into details like this and think you know better than someone with 20 years’ experience. Your insecurities about sending your kid to public school are shining through.

I went to a college and a grad school, and also have college kids, so I have a good idea.
You are very weird.

Oh, like the vast majority of the board, you went to college! You have college kids! OP must be a liar because of your vast expertise. Your insecurity about sending your kids to private (despite the fact you are so educated but couldn’t afford it) is killing you. It’s not weird at all.

You don't need to be an expert at all.
Did you know what kind of HS your classmates went in your college classes?
Very weird and creepy people

I did - because I wasn’t a social reject. Where are you from is a common way to start a conversation.
Here’s how it looks:
Me (at state university) “Hi, so where are you from?
Them “NoVA.”
Me: “Oh, me too! Where did you go to school?”
Them: “Langley.”
Me: “Oh, i don’t know anyone from there but I knew some Potomac kids….”
See this is what it looks like when you have normal social skills.

You did - becasue you probably went to a communter school or a instate school where bunch of local kids gather together.

Here's how it looks:

Me: what's up guys, where are you guys from
Kid 1: NYC
Kid 2: Boston
Kid 2: How about you?
Me: NOVA
Kid 1: What the heck is NOVA?
Me: Northern VA, it's a boring place.
Kid 1: Cool
Me: Cool, you guys want to come to a party?
Kid 1, Kid 2: Sure

See this is what it looks like when you go to an interesting school.
Nobody fukcing know and care about your HS LMAO

I don't see why it matters, but I think it's a natural question to ask, especially for a freshman, if you know someone from where the other student is from. "Oh, you're from X City? Did you go to X High School? I know someone from X City, but he/she went to X School." It would kind of be weird not to ask, I would think, but maybe I'm just being provincial.

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If a student goes to a mediocre public school, any ideas how they can learn to write better and practice analytical reading? My son is in an “honors for all” English class so there are students in that class reading and writing at a college level to elementary level. The result is that the class seems to be taught at a low level so everyone can keep up.