Class Discussion Blog

I read through the papers in class and I have come to the conclusion of the worst one and the best one. The one I feel is the best is What You Do vs. Where You Go. My reason behind this is I feel that the author supports her arguments that she gives well and she doesn't go off topic and she m,akes sense with her writing. She talks about how people think that celebrities went to all these top schools and that is how they because famous, when in actuality they did not go to an elite school. They in fact went to a non elite school, and with that they became famous for what they wanted to do ith their lives. One of her quotes is about some famous people who went to non elite colleges who people thought did attend an elite school,

The “oohs” and “aahs” follow as the audience learns that Steven Spielberg, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates dropped out of college, that Oprah Winfrey is an alumna of Tennessee State and that Ken Burns graduated from Hampshire College. If even a few stressed students and their anxious parents benefit from this information, it is a worthwhile exercise.

In this we can clearly see that people clearly expect that the famous and wealthy got their education at a wealthy, high propped school. When in fact oprah Winfrey went to a simple school like Tennessee State.

The article that I found to be, not the worst but not the best either was Access To Money and Power. My reason for this being my least favorite is that I do not agree with what he is saying. Because what he is saying is that if you go to a less selective college then you will not become a wealthy person and you are spending a lot of money there and stuff. He may have statistics on what he is argueing but I do not agree that a person who went to Harvard has any type of a better chance at being wealthy then a person who attended Cal State Bakersfield. 
In conclusion I feel he has a weak and bias arguement and I do not agree with it.