Some thoughts.
This bubble is due to burst, and I suspect the precipitating event will be the need to cut federal spending.
5 thoughts on “The Academic Cargo Cult”
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Some thoughts.
This bubble is due to burst, and I suspect the precipitating event will be the need to cut federal spending.
Comments are closed.
Mom says this like it’s a BAD thing. This is, after all the Southeastern Conference, which hosts the World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party every October.
(That’s why we in the ACC refer to ourselves as the Accredited Colleges Conference. 😉
On a more serious note, this is why, every day, I thank God that I was able to attend an engineering school. I suspect that Georgia Tech (and CalTech, MIT, Carnegie-Mellon, Purdue, etc) grads will be able to one day look back and say “bubble? What bubble?”
True. Having a major in the hard sciences (where you have the type of knowledge that gives you power over nature, not power over people) gives you skills that remain relevant even after the current social situation breaks up.
Maybe we should phase out some surplus universities and convert them into nuclear plants.
Shovel-ready-Green-jobs!
Sadly those vomiters may take two years and thousands of dollars in loan before realizing they just can’t and never could cut it. There options are then to default on their loans, or spend years paying them back, again sadly having received no real benefit for their time or money. On the bright side someone has to make my daughters Latte’.