Posted by Minnie-Haha on June 15, 2005, at 19:40:01 [reposted on June 15, 2005, at 21:50:15 | original URL]
In reply to Re: Honors college » Minnie-Haha, posted by Dinah on June 15, 2005, at 13:18:58
> I'm not even enrolled yet, and I think I'm up to my old tricks. Being competitive. Having grades matter way too much. Of course, if they really matter, I shouldn't take honors. :)
Yes. I'd have to say that was part of the draw for me. I didn't go to college right out of high school, and I'd always felt self-conscious about it. Then, when I found I could enter the honors college, I thought, "Well, that would be cool. To graduate with honors," but when I started having trouble keeping up with my major, I let it go. It's funny we should be talking about this, because while I was at the library this afternoon, waiting for my son, I read Anna Quindlen's "Being Perfect." Not the kind of thing I usually read, but I had a little time to kill and it is a very little book. I had to chuckle a few times while I was reading it...
As for grades, I made the dean's list those first two semesters (and a few times afterwards), but I was really driving myself hard. I couldn't sustain it.
> I think more than anything I'm scared at the large class size in non-honors classes. And wanting more interaction with other students and the professor. It's just too different than what I'm used to, and not in an appealing way. But maybe that's just the cost you pay when you pay less in tuition.
So all of your classes would be honors classes, with honors professors and honors students? Where I went to school, it wasn't set up that way. There were some core honors classes you had to take, and then you had to do extra honors work in some of the classes in your major. And you had to write an undergrad thesis. But you're going to grad school, right? If you only take 1-2 at a time, but they're all honors, with great professors and small class sizes, I'd be tempted to stick with it!
> I'm only taking one class per semester. I was afraid that would disqualify me from the honors program, but apparently not.
Cool.
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