If colleges were held to the same standards of customer service as retail businesses, they'd be out of business in a heartbeat. I don't think I've ever called for something and gotten through on the first try. I even got a voice message that stated "We're all in a meeting right now...." Grrrrr....
JESUS CHRIST I'M OLD! A great number of my fellow students are 18-21-ish. It was kind of amusing when the prof left the room to retrieve some papers, once. IMMEDIATELY, twenty some-odd cell phones and frenzied texting commenced.
I also wonder how they manage to carry a full course load. I'm taking one class per semester (one class, one lab) and it's all I feel I can comfortably manage.
I was surprised to find that I still remember the names of many of the elements, when we were handed a copy of the Periodic Table. (Of course there are NEW elements that I didn't know about that have been added, since I last looked, but we won't talk about that). Hopefully my internal hard drive isn't full and I can assimilate this new material as well as I did...uh...a long time ago.
