Friday 3 November 2006

Higher Education


Apparently out East there's a saying "Clapping for Credits" that's equivalent to calling something a Mickey Mouse course or Basket Weaving.

I laughed out loud when I heard it. Clapping for Credits.

Why couldn't I find any of those kinds of courses when I was getting my degrees?

5 comments:

Victoria said...

I like it when the students getting their Art degrees put on shows that, to little old uneducated me, look like weirdness, but they get up there and explain what it all means and how it represents the "blank" of the "blank" and their struggle with "blank"

Not that they're all like that though, I'm sure. My first boyfriend was getting his Music degree. He worked hard.

No, really.

Anonymous said...

This reminds me of a quote I once heard from Magnus Magnusson (Mastermind host on BBC for about 20 years) - "the answers are only easy if you know them"...

One person's "easy" course might be very difficult for somebody else.

Mind you - in the US it's common for people to be shoe-horned into college to get them into the basketball or football team, isn't it...

Victoria said...

ooooh Mastermind! That show always scared me. We had a little plastic version of the game I liked though : )

And absolutely, "easy" is relative.

I don't know too much about what goes on in the US colleges but I know when I was at our local University here, the athletes seemed to have to work twice as hard as the rest of us. They had their courses on top of games and practices and parties and hot chicks.. uh.. er..

; )

Teena in Toronto said...

I'm from down east and have never heard of that. To me, they were Mickey Mouse courses.

Victoria said...

teena: perhaps I have been had by my friend from out east? : )