The Lasting Consequences of Student Debt

Re:The Lasting Consequences of Student Debt by epalmer on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @02:31PM (#14035824)

@roymurdock Thanks so much. She is planning on taking a class or two Babson and Wellesley. We are pretty excited about Olin. She is doing a gap year this year as an Americorp Vista FIRST Robotics employee. She was mature already but the gap year has really helped her thinking develop in critical ways. So gap years are recommended when it can be worked out.

Edit: added a "Pretty cool"

Pretty cool project. Thanks for sharing.

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Re:The Lasting Consequences of Student Debt by erroneousfunk on Thursday April 06, 2017 @12:29PM (#14052059)

I graduated from Olin, never took a class at Babson, but would also highly recommend classes at Wellesley.

The major downside to Olin is that it's very small and the humanities offerings are very scarce and not comprehensive at all. Olin has a four class humanities requirement for graduation and you're required to have a "theme" to the classes so that you have a sort of "humanities concentration." Some students don't really think about this until senior year, at which point they panic, take a couple more classes, and submit some sort of hand-wavey statement that tries to tie together all the extremely different classes they took.

I took Russian 101, 102, 201, and 202 over the course of 2 years at Wellesley and it was fantastic. I would highly recommend that she think about, not just her engineering major, but what topic she wants to pursue in the arts or humanities. If you make a decision in your freshman/sophomore year and pursue a specific set of classes it's an amazing opportunity to pick up a new skill/hobby, or expand on an existing one.

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