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University of Virginia Student Graduates in One Year
An anonymous reader writes "18-year-old David Banh of Annandale, VA recently graduated from the University of Virginia with a double major in Physics and Mathematics, and an education paid for almost entirely by scholarships. What's truly amazing is that he did it in one year, bringing in 72 Advanced Placement credits, then taking 23 credits his fall semester, 37 credits his spring semester and 3 credits in the summer. His brief undergraduate career didn't leave him much time to explore college, so he's now working on his master's degree. He says he may eventually pursue law school as a part-time student in hopes of becoming a patent lawyer."
shouldn't be allowed to be another patent lawyer. The world has already too much of this kind.
Don't bother. He's obviously over-compensating for something. I'd hate to find out what.
Translation: We want to have plenty of oportunity to fill his mind with as much liberal mush as possible. We must not let him think for himself!
Yes because that's exactly what University is all about! This crafty liberals, sneaking into higher education with those Phd's just to corrupt the youth. I guess they figured that after getting the media and Hollywood this was the next logical step.
Those poor conservatives, whatever shall they do? Won't someone please think of the right!
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Thank God our fearless leader Bush was too busy snorting cocaine and attending keggers to have the "liberal college machine" affect him much!
"But this one goes to 11!"
Many professors would like students to explore and experiment in college rather than cram in as much as possible at top speed.
Professors are wrong. Experimentation and exploration is for high school and below. College is expensive and for adults. Adults should be taking charge of their direction, setting goals and achieving them.
While there is some merit to their argument, most of us have no interest in academia. It's just about getting a job, like becoming a patent attorney. Obstacles are thrown in the way of people with specific objectives to keep them in school (general education, matriculation requirements, advanced placement refusals, conflicting course requirements, etc.). While I think this guy probably needs to live a little, he did sucessfully get through those obstacles and beat the professors at their little game. Hooray for our side.
I can't speak for anyone else, but this was certainly my experience. The professors (at least the tenured ones) only seemed to want to talk about supporting the teachers union and encourage us to vote democrat/union/liberal.
Yes, this does happen, though it's not universal, and tends to be more common among professors of the, uhm, shall we say "less rigorous" fields. Just because someone is a leftist (the term "liberal" is too good for such wastes of biomass) doesn't mean they support independent critical thinking.
Unfortunately, the people who complain loudest about this legitimate problem tend to be right-wing assholes who'd rather substitute THEIR particular brand of Received-Wisdom-From-Faux-News dogma than let students come to their own conclusion, which leads more reasonable liberals to dismiss their complains. It's a pity, really.