A&M is a fine school. I've had relatives go there and go on to be very successful doctors and lawyers. Don't go blaming state schools cause Ivy Leagues are private. There are a ton of horrible private schools out there. There are great public schools out there and A&M happens to be one of them. If you need other examples, Berkeley, UCLA, Michigan, UIUC, are all great academic establishments. This is coming from someone who attended an Ivy and could easily gotten the same challenge attending one of those schools.
I graduated from Cornell, and never felt anyone I met from a state institution in the same field as dumber than me. They worked just as hard as I did and know the same material. Perhaps my professors were more respected in the field, but the material never changed, and it really is by your own choice whether you want to learn it. Not by the professors, not by the coursework, it's all in you.
Also, for your own personal note. The best schools are not necessarily always the ivies. The best engineering schools are rarely ever the Ivies. There are great business schools, but you'll find their competition are also state schools. As a society we put Ivies on a pedestal, but come down to it, it's really that much different.
<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Wright is human being, and as one, he will tend to stay away from scary things like seemingly rigerous courses..</div>
Human nature is not to run away from challenges if that is the point you're making. That's a coward's nature. I'm not calling Antoine a coward, but that is what you're pointing out right here. I've taken classes where everyone warned me about abrasive professors and unreasonable course loads but took the course because the it is beneficial to me. Does that make me not human?
End of the day, college isn't supposed to force you take tough courses. That's a high school's job. In college the responsibility is supposed to shift to your hands. You're in control of your academic path. Sure private schools force you to take certain courses to discover love that you may have never known, but in my opinion that doesn't make private schools better than state.
Besides if they forced Antoine to take courses that challenged him academically, any of you really think it would've make him work any harder when he wanted to take the easy way out anyway? I doubt it.
College is about taking control in your life. Control of what you do and the person you want to become. You definitely won't have all the answers once you graduate but you should grab hold of the type of person you are by the end of it and what you want to do. If you fail to take opportunities that a university offers thats on you. Like I said before, you're an adult and it's time for you to make your own decisions, not the school.
