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[quote=Anonymous]I am from Boston, too. A great city.

I went to Columbia, studied History and found it to be a super intellectual place: critical reading, critical thinking and critical writing all the time. There was a constant questioning of any idea or premise , and one needed to peel away layer after layer until one reached a core of an idea with its origins and basic components. Then, be had to rebuild the layers which were peeled away to appreciate how the different layers or parts functioned together and impacted each other.

During my summers I would return to Boston and my internships had students from Harvard. Despite the so-called general education requirements for the BA, after  many conversations and attempted conversations with them about their studied and experience, I did not feel that there was the intense focus on tracing back the origins of an idea or of related ideas , of disassembling and re-assembling concepts and developing critical writing on this process and on these findings.  Also,  they told me thattheir classes in thehumaities were large, often lecture classes with a TA -  not small classes.

I felt quite lucky. Most of my classes were small at Columbia, about 20-22 maximum in my humanities classes, and often even smaller than this number.

Their descriptions and lack of conversation on their studies left me feeling a bit empty as if I had eaten a hot dog instead of a real meal. [/quote]

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