2. While many readers may view me as an “asshole” that is too “entitled” and “self-absorbed” to care about my education, your assumptions are just that…assumptions. I graduated valedictorian from high school and transferred to UoM: Dearborn with a 3.75 GPA.

THE ENTITLED STUPID IS STARING SO HARD AT ME I NEED SUNGLASSES.

Seriously what the fuck? Ok, so he was valedictorian. *twirls finger* in the grand scheme of things, I doubt it matters that much. And that bit about transferring from a community college wth a 3.75 GPA?

Dude.

If you apply yourself in college it's not hard at all to snag a really good GPA. I did some bird courses in a community college and walked out with a 4.08 going into university transfer. Guess what? That's when I hit the hard slog and my grades dropped to more realistic levels. :P

In most instances when it comes to colleges and universities, I find that they operate under a backwards business model. As a rule of thumb, customers come first. After all, satisfied customers means increased revenue and likeliness that references will be acquired blahblah blah more crap

The thing is, state-funded institutions in particular get a fair chunk of cash from the state government, not from the tuition-payers. There's a reason why it costs $40k a year to go to Harvard and only $8k to hit a state uni.

So his very idea that they operate on a 'business model' is false, since they actually exist as quasi-public institutions and therefore serve the public purpose of relatively broad access to higher education. This sort of public-spirited purpose goes back to the days of land-grant colleges.

He does make a valid point that students are treated with relatively little respect but this has nothing to do with the common courtesy expected of students that they'll pay attention in class and not blatantly use their electronics to distract themselves.

le sigh.