are your college students studying hard?

[Anonymous]

Yes. At an Ivy (not HPY). Though midterms end this week. Spring break starts 3/19.

[Anonymous]

I’m really baffled at the idea of homework in anything other than lower division math or foreign language courses. Does college now include a lot of busy work?

[Anonymous]

Works hard, but distracted n not at a 100% effort.

Sigh, hopefully DC stay competitive enough to land a good job

[Anonymous]

DC1: UChicago, studies in the library daily. Nothing very intense unless its exam period
DC2: Penn, light daily studying, only really puts their head down during exams.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m really baffled at the idea of homework in anything other than lower division math or foreign language courses. Does college now include a lot of busy work?

Homework is not “busy work” at any level.

It is impossible to master any subject material in 3 hour long class periods a week.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Working hard or hardly working?

A mediocre private university in dc.

Guessing OP is talking about American University.

And the class is something crazy like "The Love Language of Taylor Swift."

Please I just spat out my Diet Coke

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Working hard or hardly working?

A mediocre private university in dc.

Guessing OP is talking about American University.

And the class is something crazy like "The Love Language of Taylor Swift."

Please I just spat out my Diet Coke

[Anonymous]

My kid works very hard but then again she is studying MechE. Always in the library and it saddens me when she is there on a Saturday night. This is not how I lived my college years, but then again I was Poli Sci. lol

[Anonymous]

First, we tell high school students that GPA alone isn’t enough—they need a “spike,” leadership roles, extracurriculars, and a carefully built résumé to get into a good college.

Then, once they get there, we say they should stop being strivers—that college is about fun, social life, and the “experience", build network, find jobs...

And somehow we expect them to arrive on campus and suddenly care deeply about learning.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Working hard or hardly working?

A mediocre private university in dc.

Guessing OP is talking about American University.

And the class is something crazy like "The Love Language of Taylor Swift."

Please I just spat out my Diet Coke

I am pretty sure the Taylor Swift class is well attended.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:First, we tell high school students that GPA alone isn’t enough—they need a “spike,” leadership roles, extracurriculars, and a carefully built résumé to get into a good college.

Then, once they get there, we say they should stop being strivers—that college is about fun, social life, and the “experience", build network, find jobs...

And somehow we expect them to arrive on campus and suddenly care deeply about learning.

Most don't, but some do. And those who do, do amazing, amazing things after graduation. Even from a less famous university. Go figure.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m really baffled at the idea of homework in anything other than lower division math or foreign language courses. Does college now include a lot of busy work?

???? Were you a student before? If you don't take home projects/homework, how do you apply the knowledge to real-life problems? How does the professor know if you understand the materials? Yes, lots of classes are in these quantitative domains. You expect the kids just show up in class (or not even showing up) and ace the exam and get all As?

[Anonymous]

DC studies a ton at Cornell just to keep up, but a lot of the time the kids get together to study (their own subjects, and they actually seem to lock in) so that it’s not so lonely. And then they go eat and hang out together.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m really baffled at the idea of homework in anything other than lower division math or foreign language courses. Does college now include a lot of busy work?

???? Were you a student before? If you don't take home projects/homework, how do you apply the knowledge to real-life problems? How does the professor know if you understand the materials? Yes, lots of classes are in these quantitative domains. You expect the kids just show up in class (or not even showing up) and ace the exam and get all As?

Mid term exam, final exam, papers, research project or term paper. In most classes the final or the term paper/project was 60% of your grade too. In a few courses that didn’t have papers the final was 80%. There were no weekly or biweekly homework assignments in upper division courses.

The point was to demonstrate mastery of the content along with demonstrating you had developed the skills to move on and contribute to the field. If you were able to do that but simple doing the reading then you could pass the mid term and final without going to lectures depending on the professor. However, if you were that strong and this was a professor known in their field then you weren’t skipping lectures. It was like getting to go to a favorite authors talk or guest lecture that people travel to see. Some of the filler professors today are more like sitting through a PowerPoint presentation from the low level sales guy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am a college professor and am dismayed at how little effort students put into their coursework. Attendance has been horrible. Students took 1.5 weeks off during spring break. Homework hasn't been turned on. They all seem to give up and do not care. I wonder if it is only true for my university and the cohort. What do students want get out of college?

How do you expect parents to know anything other than what their kids tell them? We can't even see their grades wiithout a waiver.