tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post6768540497285104750..comments2024-03-29T04:06:37.402-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: Gaming the College Admissions ProcessStuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-29887782920983750892016-08-17T13:35:43.562-07:002016-08-17T13:35:43.562-07:00There's good intent, going beyong grades and t...There's good intent, going beyong grades and test scores, and leadership skills and community involvement give some measure while empathy isn't clearly connected but an other directed attention, perhaps the same skills a religious organization looks for.<br /><br />And if college is now refocusing to bottom line by cost, and liberal arts are becoming extravagances smart students can't afford to for into their career plans. Then getting somne young interested in a bigger picture and less self interested focus is a worthy goal.Ares Olympushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726811306826601686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-29701181532146544312016-08-16T11:44:28.695-07:002016-08-16T11:44:28.695-07:00My kids went to private school in Manhattan. At th...My kids went to private school in Manhattan. At the start of the second semester of their junior year there would be a "college night" for the students and their parents, to kick off the college admissions process. The school would have an admissions officer from a local college come to speak. One year (this would have been 2010), the admissions director from Columbia was the speaker. During the Q&A a parent asked for some general guidance on the "personal statement" that the kids would have to write. He paused and said, "Well, let me just say this. You don't...have...to have suffered." The fact that he was black made the answer all the more enjoyable.Stevennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-38403226380736230982016-08-16T06:14:04.255-07:002016-08-16T06:14:04.255-07:00Gaming applications exists because applications ex...Gaming applications exists because applications exist. This is not the problem.<br /><br />If you're curious about what the problem is, investigate the phenomenon of "remedial" college English and math. Woefully unprepared students are given college places, and they are so indoctrinated with self-esteem dogma that they require "safe spaces" to protect themselves from the truth. And that includes truth delivered with an effort to refrain from laughing at their pitiful excuses for work.<br /><br />It's why I retired from academics. I couldn't stop laughing and I refuse to spend my last years grading math papers for ignoramus who don't even know the order of operations (PEMDAS).Trigger Warningnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-36319639134453910832016-08-16T06:00:10.438-07:002016-08-16T06:00:10.438-07:00sestamib,
Speaking of Hillary. http://twitchy.co...sestamib,<br /><br />Speaking of Hillary. http://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2016/08/15/well-aint-she-ms-suzy-sunshine-angry-feminist-julie-bindel-all-men-are-rapists-and-should-be-shot/<br /><br />Sadly, if you are a male in this country you better get used to this line of thinking if Hillary becomes president. If you think the loss of due process rights is running rampant in academe because of the Department of Education non edicts just wait until almost anything a male says or does is considered rape, a micro-aggression, hate speech, et al.<br />There is the cynical part of me that wonders if those men, and women who live them, who vote for Hillary are not into Bondage and the need for a dominatrix to tell them what to do? Welcome to the wide, wide world of feminism.<br /><br />I do wonder though if American men were at the Olympics as real human beings?Dennishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14962996070458991675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-64897453825509605992016-08-15T15:13:50.960-07:002016-08-15T15:13:50.960-07:00This what happens in a fully cuntified America, on...This what happens in a fully cuntified America, one in which we have to empathize with our enemies (as per Hillary.)sestamibihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03713681322114049960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-40461806192675931852016-08-15T10:24:21.451-07:002016-08-15T10:24:21.451-07:00Much of what is happening in our country reminds m...Much of what is happening in our country reminds me of the 1998 movie "Pleasantville." The movie features the Left's favorite target for scorn: the 1950s. The interesting thing is that the movie begins in black-and-white, and then color is added to show transformation of the characters as they become the "coloreds" (metaphor). What stands for transformation in Pleasantville? As the movie progresses, the central adolescent characters begin to move toward what today we would recognize as doctrines and dogmas of the Church of Liberal Pieties, with racism and free expression being the two most emphasized (especially - gasp! - sex). The adults follow. <br /><br />The main theme I took from the movie is that people became "colored" when they told the truth -- their own truth, deep in their soul, mostly sensual. We've seen it in a ton of films. The heroes tell the truth, breaking down the social barriers and stigmas that halt subjective truth from being expressed. In Pleasantville, when people began to express themselves and challenge the status quo, some in the town became quite enraged about a nude painting of someone else's wife. There is a ban on "colored" people, which is the metaphorical link to racism. <br /><br />Few can disagree with the real racism and homogenized culture of the time period depicted. That's not the point. This is poetics, metaphor, art. The scereenwriter's point is the human impact of denial, repression, indoctrination and enforcement. These same things are gaining steam today, but in a different way. <br /><br />What is interesting is that our country's mainstream elite culture is becoming homogenous and black-and-white in the same way Pleasantville was. The social barriers and stigmas are there, but they're different. Our high schools, colleges and universities are supposed to be about diversity of thought, expanding our thinking. The reverse seems to be increasingly true. It's not that subjective truth is repressed, but that objective truth is repressed. Of course, the idea of objective truth is anathema to liberal arts departments everywhere, and now activists are making demands that science conform to the demands of Leftist ideology and faith. Today, the dogmas of the Church of Liberal pieties beg for vocal expression and agreement to verify homogeneous thought. Soon it will be required. Those who question or resist are ostracized. In Pleasantville, people were going about their lives the same way they always had, not questioning things. Today, we have a monolithic culture in our educational system, particularly among administrators such as those who handle college admissions. <br /><br />So what Bruni points out is to be expected. Follow the incentives.<br /><br />We are eventually going to get to a point where this Lefty chic brings us rigid behavior codes, anti-racism oaths and affirmative participation in all kinds of "selfless" things. This will become so pervasive that the "coloreds" will be the people who stand for objective truth, standards, and against the nuttiness of all of this. Those early courageous souls will be separated from the university population. But young people are always rebellious, and the tide will turn. Until then, you can count on the self-proclaimed moral magnificence of our liberal elites to give them the strength to move forward with eradicating all flaws in human character, and replacing them with their idealized human being who has no judgments whatsoever... except those that conform to the doctrine and dogma of the Church of Liberal Pieties, of course.<br /><br />Call it the new repression. "Vogue," indeed. I await those people who are ready to tell the truth on campus. We need color in the USA. I encourage you to watch "Pleasantville" in this frame. It's very interesting.Ignatius Acton Chesterton OCDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18222603717128565302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-39417987801057032472016-08-15T10:21:14.528-07:002016-08-15T10:21:14.528-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Ignatius Acton Chesterton OCDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18222603717128565302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-43258462633003259502016-08-15T07:46:53.073-07:002016-08-15T07:46:53.073-07:00We were gaming the application system in the 1970s...We were gaming the application system in the 1970s- it just had different goal-posts back then.AesopFannoreply@blogger.com