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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am currently attending a well-ranked liberal arts college for a double major in English and Physics. The small course sizes sounded nice at first, but my English courses have not really evolved past discussions of the same handful of themes (patriarchy/sex or gender, racism/exclusion, identity/perception). The professors are fine, [b]but they are typically not doing active research that invites students, so I have to get creative (aka go to research universities).[/b] The department holds a few modernists, a single professor in literary criticism, and a complete lack of translation coursework. I cannot really say the experience has been much beyond discussion with mostly sleepy students, who do not at all care about the text, often not reading it either. I am taking a tutorial next semester, but I won't be holding my breath on increased rigor and interest.
The physics resources and faculty are amazing, [b]but the reality is that getting into a top physics program requires top research experience and heavily biases those with graduate coursework and years of research. [/b]
Look, I love small classes and learning in a small community within an idyll, bucolic campus, but I don't think it is worth it over going to a good research university, where you get support for research and have more opportunities with nicher subspecialties.[/quote]

This makes no sense. You'd probably do better in English if you wrote better.[/quote]
You might just need to read closely? Those sentences are fine. [/quote]

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