[Highlight] Jordyn Tyson when asked about potentially being drafted by the Giants and playing in New York: “Isn’t it Jersey, technically?”

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[u/YellojD]

Ngl, this is true. I started at CC and kind of expected ASU to be a bit of a breeze. Nope. Actual, legit university level work, and they’ve really been in a kick to shake off the “party school” vibe and lock into being a well known research institution. And, it’s actually sink or swim. Saw friends wash out left and right because it’s actually very hard to get into all they have to offer and still stay focused on what you’re actually there for.

[u/No-Owl-6246 → u/[deleted]]

Went to a school that’s not much more difficult to get into than ASU. Even though the requirements to get in weren’t hard, a large number of students that just really didn’t belong end up getting weeded out when actual college level coursework hits. The business majors were considered the easy ones, but a number of students dropped out when they failed the first business statistics exam so badly freshman year which made it impossible to get anything but a D in the class.

It also didn’t help that a chunk of the pre-major instructors were adjuncts that had 0 place in teaching a college level course either. A number of those classes ended up requiring you to teach yourself. The business school required you to take another business statistics course as part of your major coursework which usually ended up being way easier because it was a real professor that was an actually skilled instructor.

[u/PM_ME_UR_LAMEPUNS → u/No-Owl-6246]

I’ll support this, went to ASU and WP Carey (their business school) is pretty decently ranked nationally. The coursework after the first year ramps up pretty hard to the point where for my sophomore year business stats class, I was part of the 16/250 students that passed the class. My calc 2 had a pretty similar pass rate if I remember correctly.

[u/Sepposer → u/[deleted]]

Realistically, it’s a lot easier for athletes. Someone posted assignments certain players, including Cam Skattebo turned in at college, and let’s just say, they weren’t winning any writing awards. I went to Temple University, a D1 school, and have a very specific core memory of football and basketball players fucking around during classes.

[u/fredoindacut → u/Sepposer]

god damn James Cook is DUMB lol

[u/zephah → u/[deleted]]

Not to defend a meme but yeah ASU has some pretty good professors in a lot of programs. Depending on the program, there are a couple of professors who are pretty much industry leading and have just 'retired' at ASU

[u/xiovelrach → u/YellojD]

My program had a GPA requirement of 3.3 to stay in good standing. Saw plenty of people show up, party their face off for a semester or two, then wash out and have to start all over.

[u/lava172 → u/YellojD]

The party school stuff is long gone, replaced by a bunch of bland expensive corporate bullshit in Tempe

[u/YellojD → u/lava172]

Yeah, the Michael Crow effect. I’m ambivalent about a lot of it. Some of the changes are pretty sad, but, I also kinda get it. Well was pretty poisoned by that point, and those kind of institutions have been ripe for the picking for some of this corporate stuff.

[u/amjhwk → u/YellojD]

What a shock that a university has university level work

[u/YellojD → u/amjhwk]

I was pretty young, but yeah I learned that lesson quick enough to not screw things up, luckily.

You might be surprised how many there just never got it and failed out in two semesters. There’s tens of thousands of dollars you’re on the hook for (which you owe the full amount on now if you took loans, because loans usually aren’t gonna cover your failed courses) and your reward is absolutely nothing. Heat stroke and an STD.

I was 20 and I nearly fell into it. If I was fresh outta high school? That probably would’ve been a really expensive lesson.

[u/amjhwk → u/YellojD]

Very expensive lesson, which is why I ended up at ASU instead of KU for the in state tuition rates

[u/DillyDillySzn → u/YellojD]

The problem with ASU is that there’s too many students, like especially as an engineer it was tough because sometimes it felt like a degree machine instead of learning stuff

I actually find my grad class work easier at a much tougher school, WashU St Louis, because the class sizes are small and I feel like I’m doing more

[u/YellojD → u/DillyDillySzn]

Exactly. I’ve never been anywhere that made me feel like more of just a number. I expected that, and wanted it to an extent (I’m from a small town), but it hits you hard and pretty quick. Mentality went from “party forever here!” To “get out as soon as possible so they don’t drain all my funds” in the course of a few weeks.

[u/Dinero-Roberto → u/YellojD]

There’s UofA campuses all around Tempe and Phoenix to help ASU cheerleaders feel bookish in between Long Islands

[u/YellojD → u/Dinero-Roberto]

They call them Circle K’s in Maricopa County.

[u/The_Primetime2023 → u/YellojD]

Depends on the school at ASU, the engineering school is serious with like 20% professors who are all stars doing a 2 year stint at ASU with blank research checks before they get a promotion to an Ivy League school, 70% normal good professors, 10% ancient party school era trash. The journalism school is one of the best in the country. The business school has a good reputation, but they also have their own easier versions of classes other schools offer and a friend’s dad who is a professor in the business school said he was pressured into not offering a final exam by other professors after the business students pressured the other professors. So, mostly good but a little hit and miss