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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you look at the time stamp of the professor’s post, it’s 2 am. He/she is up late working and complaining about it. We all have to work late sometimes. Get over it or find a different job.

And yeah, [b]I think professors are self-absorbed, arrogant blowhards whose puffed-up sense of self-importance far outweighs the drivel that they constantly publish and teach. [/b]

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Again, why are you sending your child to college to take classes with professors? If you truly believed this, why not refuse to send your child to college and instead spend four years as an apprentice somehwere? 
Frankly, you sound deeply insecure.[/quote]

1. You have no idea why they are awake at 2am, it may just be insomnia.

2. Everyone I'm related to is a professor or a teacher, and yes, they are arrogant blowhards. Most truly believe that their one, small area of expertise allows them authority in all other areas of expertise and they look down on anyone who chose to leverage their intellect in a lucrative field. Or who are pursuing funded research.

So yes, I find their opinions to be biased and self-serving.

3. I value professors and education, but I don't want my child's opportunities to be limited by a SLAC. The professor in OP's post seemed to imply that you can only benefit from an educational model of a small school with professors only focused on teaching. I disagree. I send my child to a mid-sized T20 school, R1, with lots of professional schools in affiliation, because I think that educational model is the right fit for this generation of academically motivated kids. Mid-sized provides plenty of close contact with professors/labs/research opportunities, without being oppressively small or isolated geographically. RI and affiliation with graduate schools means even more opportunities for shadowing, research, and visualizing career pathways.

There are lots of opportunities to work closely with professors, both those who are focused only on teaching and those doing exciting research. 
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Not in our experience at a T10. SLACs are superior in terms of research opportunities and faculty interaction. Again, in our experience, career services are far superior, too. My two kids at SLACs have been strongly encouraged to explore careers outside of academia via introductions as well as recommendations. This clearly varies by school but I find your generalizations to be off base.[/quote]

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