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There’s a personality type on display here. If you want to understand where so much of the wokeness is coming from, this is one place to start.
A Harvard report found that grade inflation was a major problem and urged more serious academic standards.
Here’s the response from our future leaders.
Sophie Chumburidze ’29 said the report felt dismissive of students’ hard work and academic struggles.
“The whole entire day, I was crying,” she said. “I skipped classes on Monday, and I was just sobbing in bed because I felt like I try so hard in my classes, and my grades aren’t even the best.”
“It just felt soul-crushing,” she added.
Kayta A. Aronson ’29 said stricter standards could take a serious toll on students’ mental health.
“It makes me rethink my decision to come to the school,” she said. “I killed myself all throughout high school to try and get into this school. I was looking forward to being fulfilled by my studies now, rather than being killed by them.”
Zahra Rohaninejad ’29 added that grading already felt harsh and raising standards further would only erode students’ ability to enjoy their classes.
“I can’t reach my maximum level of enjoyment just learning the material because I’m so anxious about the midterm, so anxious about the papers, and because I know it’s so harshly graded,” she said. “If that standard is raised even more, it’s unrealistic to assume that people will enjoy their classes.”
Should studying at a top school make you feel “fulfilled” or reach your “maximum level of enjoyment”?
The purpose of a top school is, in theory, to winnow out the best. In this case it’s the best whiners who respond to any setback by crying and claiming that asking them to work hard threatens their mental health.
(Anyone who says that shouldn’t be in any kind of position of responsibility and hasn’t progressed much beyond childhood.)
Understand that and you understand why so many of our institutions are failures. They’re being run by people like this.
I have repeatedly proposed a National Do Not Hire LIst that I think all these kinds of students should be added to, along with just about all the Democrats.
It’s also the feminization of the institutions. Logic and reason take a back seat to emotions.
Or are some there due to diversity and they don’t have knowledge base or skills to keep up? Thats a problem and its solution is not dumbing down college but lies elsewhere.
Do these whiners not think of getting a tutor? Or discussing the work with the professor, maybe?
Or perhaps doing something useful and honorable for which their aptitudes are well suited? Not everyone is college material.
On the one hand: after reading JD Vance’s bio, I’ve come to realize a large part of the Ivy League experience is connections.
On the other hand: there was a time that only the best and the brightest could get into Harvard*. And they had to work to stay there. Things have changed. If you aren’t good enough to do legitimately well, maybe you should try a different school.
* The best and brightest and those whose daddies donated millions to Harvard’s endowment. But those daddies often sent their kids to the best prep schools to make sure they were ready.
Sophie Chumburidze: “The whole entire day, I was crying,” she said. “I skipped classes on Monday, and I was just sobbing in bed because I felt like I try so hard in my classes, and my grades aren’t even the best.” What impact does Sophie believe skipping classes will have on her grades?
Kayta A. Aronson: “It makes me rethink my decision to come to the school,” she said. “I killed myself all throughout high school to try and get into this school. I was looking forward to being fulfilled by my studies now, rather than being killed by them.” Did she believe Harvard would not be significantly harder than high school? Community colleges should be harder than high school. Schools like Harvard significantly so.
Zahra Rohaninejad: “I can’t reach my maximum level of enjoyment just learning the material because I’m so anxious about the midterm, so anxious about the papers, and because I know it’s so harshly graded,” Maximum level of enjoyment? The best teachers make their topic interesting to the student. But make no mistake that getting an education is a job. If you want a party school, Harvard shouldn’t be the place for you.
Obviously not the best and brightest. Hopefully, they’ll learn from this expensive lesson.
candy-ashes..if you didn’t want to work hard then don’t go to an Ivy league school. Head on over to the community college
I wouldn’t be so quick to put down CCs, as they give students that want to work, a stepping stone to prove they can work hard.
If you choose to go to Harvard thinking it is a party college where you can come to class hung over, still high on drugs, neglect the copious assignments and reading, you are a student prepared for primary school.
Stop whining about it, or are these the yet remaining DEI students who clamor or for a pass/fail grading system in which case withdraw and try again at a local community college making room for those with the SAT scores, high GPAs and the kind of work/study ethic needed to succeed!
Stop whining!
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Could it be these American Students are just making excuses for their failures to keep up with their Chineses classmates who are running Academic circles around them…
Agree, which reminds me, why can we never see Obama’s college credentials and grades? Maybe he was just a pass/fail student.
Back in the 1980’s the students protested against the Western canon. The students protested, because they were lazy, and that King James Bible is hard to read.
Need lots of shrinks on campus.
Also for the woke radical professors and administration.
What is the structure and purpose of such institutions? If one studied that question before enrolling, one might prefer to go somewhere else.
Yeah, like Hogwarts college. It never ceases to amaze me how stupid people can be with their money and kids.
They would probably learn more if they stayed home and read the classics.
All this and yet Harvard, like all the rest of the big name universities, has been suffering from grade inflation for the last couple of decades.
So getting the grades is easier than for previous generations and yet the poor fragile snowflakes are still melting.
I want to know where these students got the idea that their enjoyment is the main goal in life?
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
Granted, happiness is the last of the three but enjoyment is part of our founding.
*Of course created equal (equality) instead of ended equal (equity) is glossed over.
Or the idea that working hard with the intellect is not enjoyment or fulfilling…
“I killed myself all throughout high school to try and get into this school.”
How many times does someone have to commit suicide to get into Harvard?
Idiot.
Yeah, and now I’m competing against Chineses Students, who all they do is Study. They don’t party, they Study, they don’t drink, they Study, They don’t entertain themselves, they Work
Pathetic little snowflakes would rather sit around all day in their Dorms watching the Fake News and mindless sit-coms and stuffing their faces
The prestige of Harvard has been going downhill fast
The elite universities have obviously failed on almost every level.
How long before they are owned by Qatar et al.?