St. Johns College

[Jekyll]

Any alumni? Or does anyone know anyone who went there? I'm considering it, and wondered if anyone had any experience there.

 

[dfagdfsh]

if your hobbies are smoking weed and reading, great place

 

[Manton]

Masters, Annapolis.

 

[RJman]

Originally Posted by Teger

if your hobbies are smoking weed and reading, great place

Originally Posted by Manton

Masters, Annapolis.

 

[Jekyll]

Originally Posted by Teger

if your hobbies are smoking weed and reading, great place

Sounds good to me.

Originally Posted by Manton

Masters, Annapolis.

Cool. If you could go back in time, would you do it again?

 

[wmmk]

Originally Posted by Manton

Masters, Annapolis.

How is it that you went to Berkeley and St. Johns and are a Republican?

 

[Manton]

Originally Posted by Jekyll

Cool. If you could go back in time, would you do it again?
Hard to say. I found it to be a letdown to a certain extent. The whole freewheeling "tutor" system could be described by a cynic as an excuse for faculty laziness. When the discussion is totally student-led, it can lack direction and idiots can rule.

On the other hand, I would not want to un-read anything I read there, and working through all of Euclid, Newton, and Lobachevsky was priceless, and not something I would ever have done on my own.

 

[Jekyll]

I'm sure this varies depending on what field a person is in, but in your experience, how is a St. Johns degree regarded in the working world? Most people I've spoken to have never heard of it.

 

[dfagdfsh]

do you have the grades in and the money to pay the tuition?

 

[Manton]

Originally Posted by Jekyll

I'm sure this varies depending on what field a person is in, but in your experience, how is a St. Johns degree regarded in the working world? Most people I've spoken to have never heard of it.

I think it is close to irrelevant in the working world. It's not going to open many, if any, doors. This is something you have to be committed to doing for its own sake, or don't do it.

When I did it, I was sure I was going into academics. Didn't work out that way.

Then again, I think that unless you went to a super-top-tier college, the provenance of your degree probably does not matter, so you may as well go where you want.

 

[dfagdfsh]

Originally Posted by Manton

I think it is close to irrelevant in the working world. It's not going to open many, if any, doors. This is something you have to be committed to doing for its own sake, or don't do it.

When I did it, I was sure I was going into academics. Didn't work out that way.

Then again, I think that unless you went to a super-top-tier college, the provenance of your degree probably does not matter, so you may as well go where you want.

how much weed did you smoke in college, seriously

 

[dopey]

Originally Posted by Manton

Masters, Annapolis.
huh. I don't know how I missed knowing that. Or did I forget? I already like you, but if I didn't, I would now.

 

[Connemara]

Never heard of it. How is it ranked?

 

[dopey]

Originally Posted by Jekyll

Any alumni? Or does anyone know anyone who went there? I'm considering it, and wondered if anyone had any experience there.
I neglected to mention that I had a colleague who went there. He had nothing but good things to say about it. And while I can't tell you how much credit is due to St. John's, he had one of them most graceful, open and capable intellects I have encountered.

 

[Concordia]

Originally Posted by Manton

Masters, Annapolis.


No ****? Well, that clear up a lot of things.

I notice from their MALA handbook that classes tend to bunch up on Monday and Thursday evenings. Does that imply that many of the grad students have real lives elsewhere, or is it more or less a residential experience?