Abstract:
Sophomore Anne Kirwan wakes up each morning to the buzzing of an alarm clock only to sit through the similar buzzing of her professor in her Orgo class. ...
JHU definitely has the financial resources. I've taken classes at Harvard before so I can definitely tell you that the Calc class that I took at Harvard was definitely far more intimate and more one-on-one interaction than the one I took at Hopkins. The Professor even knew each person's name individually and I'm actually since friends with the professor. He even recognizes me just walking around the Math department like 1 yr. later, I wasn't even anywhere close to a teachers pet in that class. Its really cool. Hopkins kids really do not know what they are missing.
JHU definitely has the financial resources. I've taken classes at Harvard before so I can definitely tell you that the Calc class that I took at Harvard was definitely far more intimate and more one-on-one interaction than the one I took at Hopkins. The Professor even knew each person's name individually and I'm actually since friends with the professor. He even recognizes me just walking around the Math department like 1 yr. later, I wasn't even anywhere close to a teachers pet in that class. Its really cool. Hopkins kids really do not know what they are missing.
As a parent paying a large tuition bill, it is disheartening to see that a university with the reputation that Hopkins has would tolerate classes of 700 students. I see no reason why classes this size can't be cut down to much smaller sizes. Why is there only one professor to teach this many students? Aren't there other equally qualified professors that can share this load? To pretend that you have these wonderful professors and then put the student in a class this large is a farce - the class is really being taught by the TA with the guest 'professor' only as an adjunct. I call this false advertising.
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posted 10/10/08 @ 4:56 PM EST