keg84 wrote:Biggs wrote:
As a fellow college student attending a large (far larger than Montana) state university, I have a request. Please do not make students who are attempting to earn a degree from a state college or university appear any dumber. We already have enough of an image problem stemming from the snobbery of students who attend private institutions.
Stick to Journalism.
For once, I just wish that for once, unstead of people flaming for bad grammer, they would actually read the post and comment on the content of the words, not the mispelling or imperfections in the writing. As for you Bigs, as a fellow college student, why do students working for a degree seem "dumb" to you? I kinda think a image problem with you is a little more likely. Plus snobbery, as you hopefully know, is about feeling as if your better than someone else, and thats kinda hard to pull off.. if your "dumb". And who the hell are the people saying college kids are snobby. The older and uneducated, uhh. people who can't afford. You tell me
People communicate in different styles.
Dont read in rehersals.
Dont name your truck after Mortal Kombat girls
Excellent research; have you considered pursuing a career in journalism? Editors tend to think highly of reporters willing to do their own digging.
I agree with your point that people communicate in different styles. However, when your 'style' of communication is so dense, confusing, and downright ignorant of accepted convention that it becomes difficult for your audience to understand your message, you have wasted your time and energy as a communicator.
State schools are under a government mandate to accept a certain percentage of applicants and have minimal control over their acceptance standards. I refuse to speculate on how certain students arrived at their respective institutions; instead I am grateful for the opportunity given to students like myself to access affordable higher education. My concern is that, as a direct result of their diminished acceptance standards, state schools will be overrun with students of limited capacity who, in turn, serve as poor representatives for their schools in public forums such as this.
On an unrelated note, my truck (technically, my former truck) was named after a character in Dostoyevsky's
Crime and Punishment.
