10 Classes to Make Your St. John's Experience Even Better

Very interesting read. Reminds me of my four years on the Staten Island campus. If you carefully picked out your classes and your profs, you left after 4 years with a real quality education; not always taking the "easy" classes and "lenient" profs pays off in the end.
 
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No offense JSJ, but this doesn't make me want to send my kid to St. john's. Maybe that's the exact point. Also doesn't make me want to donate. 
 
Monte" post=421521 said:
No offense JSJ, but this doesn't make me want to send my kid to St. john's. Maybe that's the exact point. Also doesn't make me want to donate. 

No offense taken.

Article was written by a young lady who is a junior at St. John's
 
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Good for her. One of the things I've enjoyed doing since I retired in 2017 is taking once weekly courses given through a group of largely volunteer educators called Davidson Learns. They started out as in person classes and now have transformed into Zoom learning.   Took one on health care issues looking at how health care is delivered in a number of other countries, one on the history of the electoral college, one on the Spanish Civil War and just finished one on a series of lectures on foreign policy releated topics such as China trade policy, Brexit, Russian foreign policy etc. Many of the courses are led by professors from Davidson College but also from other professionals.   Like to think it keeps my aging brain from deteriorating as quickly lol.   
 
I think it is in "The God that Failed" (1949) where the story of the Soviet Regime shipping weapons to Franco is adressed.
 
Knight" post=421787 said:
Hillsdale College has many online courses that are good.  Conservative school.
https://online.hillsdale.edu/#home

There is a small catholic college in Ohio that has a scholarship in the name of my 2 cousins. My cousin Joseph died in Viet Nam while his sister Angela was a freshman at this college. Less then a year later, Angela passed away suddenly from a brain aneurism. Horrible situation. I wasn't even aware of the scholarship until a few years ago. You can best believe, that I vetted the school to the umpteenth degree before donating. It passed muster then and it still does. I keep checking. There are plenty of good causes to donate too that do not offend me. Unfortunately both my high school and college are no longer on the list. 
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NCJohnnie" post=421745 said:
Good for her. One of the things I've enjoyed doing since I retired in 2017 is taking once weekly courses given through a group of largely volunteer educators called Davidson Learns. They started out as in person classes and now have transformed into Zoom learning.   Took one on health care issues looking at how health care is delivered in a number of other countries, one on the history of the electoral college, one on the Spanish Civil War and just finished one on a series of lectures on foreign policy releated topics such as China trade policy, Brexit, Russian foreign policy etc. Many of the courses are led by professors from Davidson College but also from other professionals.   Like to think it keeps my aging brain from deteriorating as quickly lol.   

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I have a buddy, older, now maybe 80, a West Point grad, special forces Viet Nam, worked with me at an aviation company for a while. He kept on going back to college part time nights, mostly NYU to get other degrees on top of his West Point engineering degree...finance...Japanese and Russian language.....and a different engineering degree, he did it to keep his mind sharp. It worked he is the youngest looking and feeling 80 year old I ever met. Has the outlook of someone 20 years younger.

BTW, Davidson profs must be outstanding, that is one of the best small colleges in the country.
 
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Well I went 0/10 on these haha.

I enjoyed her paragraph on Christian Marriage. It's so true lol. It's literally impossible to get into it fills up immediately.

I see a lot of current students complain a lot about SJU online these days. But I gotta say I loved my four years. St. John's provided everything I wanted in a school. Allowed me to move to New York. It has smaller classes which I prefer. I had a ton of great professors. Some bad but I really can't complain. 

I know a lot of students are mad about the cost going up during Covid. I didn't have to deal with that because I graduated right as everything started in the spring
 
 
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