I'm sure that all the TFPers in college are fine, perfectly upstanding and responsible college students. However, allow me to give you a summary of my typical advising sessions with college students who are probably not TFPers:
ME: Where is that dang-blasted kid? I had to cancel three piano lessons because this is the only time he could meet me, and now he's not here without even so much as a phone call.
ME: (two days later): (repeat of above sentence)
ME: (one week later): (repeat of above sentence)
ME: (two weeks later): Yes, please come in, and I'm sorry to hear that your grandmother was run over by a steamroller and died twice last week. Didn't she die a couple of times last semester, too? Oh well, what would you like to take this semester?
KID: I don't know.
ME: Well, what is your major?
KID: I don't know.
ME: Well, what courses would you like to take if you could take anything you wanted?
KID: I don't know. Just put me in anything; it doesn't matter.
ME: Well, yes it does matter, because if you're on financial aid, it won't pay for courses outside your major.
KID: I don't care, just put me in anything.
ME: Well, I'll put you in Computer Basics, since all degree programs require it.
KID: I don't care, whatever....
KID: (two months later during Drop and Add): I'd like to drop this Computer shit and take Art Appreciation. I hear Dr. Jacobs is easy as shit!
KID: (three months later in the Dean's office): ...and this jerk made me take Art Appreciation even though I specifically told him I wanted to take a Film Studies class as my fine arts elective. You need to fire that guy, because he doesn't care about the students, my financial aid is all screwed up, and he cancelled three different appointments with me while my grandmother was dying.....
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Last edited by warrrreagl; 08-31-2004 at 04:07 PM..
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