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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] I suppose if you think college should be a glorified trade school then a LAC is not the right place for you.[/quote]

I'm a CS grad who knows that "if, then" statements in English require a comma.  Was correct English among the marketable skills that your LAC was too good to teach?

But seriously, I find the attitude reflected in PP's post really common among people not bright enough to succeed in technical fields. They believe that if they are bad at math and science, then logic somehow dictates that there must be some ineffable thing that they are good at.  They can't define it, they can't demonstrate any actual value for it, but they know it when they see it and they are sure that people who are good at math and science don't have it.  When confronted with evidence that people who are better at math and science are also better at English, music, sports, business and social science, they fall back on the unknowable [i]something[/i] that they are sure they're better at, and they tell the math/science folks that they [i]just don't get it[/i].

OP, one downside of studying CS at a liberal arts school is that your kid will encounter a lot of faculty and students like this, and it will be really tedious.    [/quote]

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