Something weird I noticed about college professors

I was in college for a year and I had a “friend” that would pay me to proofread his architecture essays. I said I was an English major, though I was undeclared at the time. Anyway, his essays were so full of typographical errors and bad grammar that I was wondering “How the fuck did this idiot get into a good college?!” I’m pretty sure I got better SAT scores than he did, so I don’t think that was it. I guess if you’re a good student and pay so much money to the university, the professor won’t give a shit if you’re a fucking idiot.

 

Architects are math majors who speak a different language. Sadly, there have been case of people who graduated with advanced degrees, went on to have successful careers, and turned out to be functionally illiterate. That's because academics like to do most of the talking, whether anyone is listening or not, with one in five Americans insisting the sun revolves around the earth and that voting for whoever advertises the most is their patriotic duty in a thriving democracy. The only reliable criteria for assessing anyone's career potential is the amount of working memory they possess and forty years of studies have concluded the republican party is organized along the same lines as a flock of chickens.

Sadly, people tend to confuse academic wisdom with the success of technology.

 

I so want to point out the missing comma in the OP, but I'll be good.

 

It is actually pretty amazing how many people make it to college without knowing how to properly write. I don't think I could ever be a college professor because of it. I would just end up becoming more misanthropic than I already am.

 

the professors don't decide who gets into college...

i do think the whole "did i get accepted into college" thing from all the movies and tv shows is a huge myth though. if you have money or can get it, you're accepted. and since they let any idiot into college, and want to get their money for a full 4 or 5 years, they dumb down the curriculum to the point that nobody really gets anything out of college except maybe some networking, if they're smart enough to do that.