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When I was in high school I made my teacher cry. It wasn’t my fault she was in her first year of teaching and couldn’t keep her sh*t together. It’s not like I spit at her or called her names; I simply disagreed with her argument that Cyrano de Bergerac was the best book ever written. And it was a Literary Criticism course! If you can’t handle a difference of opinion, then maybe you should consider teaching Kindergarten.

Had I known then that I could have been sued for such a disagreement, I probably would have thrown independent thought out the window and nodded my head in agreement like the rest of the class.

Thankfully, my teacher just excused herself to cry alone in the bathroom, unlike one Dartmouth lecturer who took it to a much more serious level: by seeking legal counsel.

I actually got my degree in education, so I can say from experience that teaching is a very difficult and thankless profession. You spend 16-18 hours a day either with the students, preparing for the students, or grading their crappy work. Then you come into the classroom where they are disrespectful and often times annoying. It is a job that drives you to drink countless glasses of wine and wonder why you ever wanted to do it in the first place. (Note: It is also incredibly rewarding!)

But, that is all part of the job and something you surely expect getting into a profession that deals with ungrateful children. (Don’t hate; you know you made your teachers’ lives hell back in the day.) Surely this woman cannot be naïve enough to think that Dartmouth kids would be any different? Read More »

I might be soiling my classes, but at least I’m in college. Life on the outside is tough. I just watched my best friend’s little brother get rejected from four different schools—all on the same day. It was just one thin envelope after another—like watching a train wreck or something. According to MSN, this year colleges rejected a record number of applicants, so don’t feel too bad if you didn’t get into your reach school.

Even safety schools are getting more selective. Miami University in Oxford, Ohio saw a record number of applicants this year, only admitting 73% of them, down from 78% last year. First of all, why the hell is there a Miami University in Ohio to begin with, let alone one that rejects people? Has the world gone mad?This whole thing is getting out of hand. Not only obscure schools are getting more applicants, elite colleges also received a record numbers. Read More »