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A Liberal Arts college in the US, with two campuses: one in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and a needlessly preppy one, populated mostly by sophists. Famous for its approach to liberal arts, focus on great books, and its incredibly uncomfortable, but visually iconic, "Johnnie" chairs. Blackboards are everywhere at the college, and any attempt to change this policy is always crushed with extreme prejudice.
Students of the college are called Johnnies., and in place of professors, instructors are called tutors. This is because they are supposed to be on the journey of intellectual discovery with the students, rather than talking down to them. This is, most certainly, always the case, and tutors have never been known to give lectures in the middle of class to explain exactly why a particular school of thought is fundamentally incorrect because they entirely disregard the writings of one obscure thinker, the essays of whom said tutor will be happy to provide to the interested.
St. John's has no tests or exams. All students are evaluated through their writing and performance in discussion. To deal with the stress and anxiety which comes with much of the work of the college, many Johnnies smoke and engage in extreme forms of Bacchic revelry on a weekly to biweekly basis.
Contrary to popular belief regarding liberal arts degrees, Johnnies go into a variety of fields, mostly in education, academia, or corporate sophistry(commonly known to the uninitiated as the legal profession).
"Where are you going to college again?"
"Oh, I go to St. John's College in Santa Fe."
"Never heard of it."
"I'm not surprised."
Family member:"What do you guys even do at St. John's?"
Johnnie who has learned that most people are either totally disinterested in the truly meaningful parts of their studies and has lost all faith in the ability of most people to have serious conversations: "We read lots of books."
1. to be in bad standing
2. to be low in quality
3. to be unintelligent
4. to be juvenile in nature
1. i'm not partying at the silver fox anymore bro, that place is clown college.
2. man these seats are clown college, couldn't we have gotten closer to the ring?
3. yo that girl you were talking to last night was clown college, i hope you got her number.
4. yo don't invite mark to the party, every time i see that dude it's full on clown college and shit.
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"Damn, look at his cigarette-butt covered face...he is so College Ten."
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A girl who is "married" to a college frat. She does many requests given from him (usually sexual) in return for and endless supply of free alcohol at parties. There are many rules that go along. One of which is that a frat can have as many "wives" as he pleases, however a girl cannot have a college husband. Very sexist and implies the ideals of patriarchy.
I made a booty call to my second college wife last night at 3AM. I guess she values free alcohol over sleep.
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College as Trade School is another example of the commodification of modern life spills over into post-secondary education in alarming ways. The historic benefit of college previously included the perceived civilizing effect and greater awareness of the sweep of history and human progress. That aspect has been reduced in the headlong rush toward getting one's ticket punched to enter the workforce in a more favorable position. That is basically like getting a Fast Pass to jump ahead in line at an amusement park, only some readers and riders will get nauseous from the event.
If you dare to think about education for education's sake, or the immense satisfaction and richness of learning and appreciating a world beyond your immediate surroundings, then you will be ostracized in the 'get ahead now because you will miss out' ethic that is the hallmark of the current zeitgeist.
I paid a fortune for a BS, and found out about College as Trade School. I was surrounded by other BS people in a mad scramble to drink through the term and Google my derivative research paper topics.
He didn't study enough to make it into a good university, so he had to settle for College as Trade School. that condemned him to a life in (gasp!) middle class. At least he had been informed of all the great benefits of joining the consumerist cause and could now spend his way into lifelong debt on top of his student loans.
She only averaged 550 on each of her SAT sections and had to go to College as Trade School instead of to a great university.
He was desperate to break out of his sad chav existence, even if his ticket out was going to College as Trade School. That was better than a dreary live stuck in some Council flat playing bad football on Saturdays and chainsmoking. Thus continued the slide into the Malthusian hell of the early new millenium.
Demographics is destiny.
Sic transit gloria mundi.
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Despite the fact their sports uniforms closely resemble it, they are in fact not MuzzBuzz employees. Asking them for a toasted sandwich and a coffee during any sporting event will only earn you blatant looks of disapproval. Although, most students might as well be training to be MuzzBuzz employees because unless you’re getting the top grades, nobody really gives a damn about whether you’ll succeed. Their summer uniform isn’t any better, it causes the whole school to resemble a settlement of convicts. Which is quite fitting, it does feel like a jail when you come back after the Christmas holidays.
"Those students from Methodist ladies College look like escaped prison convicts, they really need to fix that uniform."
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A school which advertises "care, respect and equality". However couldn't be more hypocritical considering all they "care" about is dehumanising and stripping you of your uniqueness individuality. All they have "respect" for is the staff. This is a place in which the pupils come last. And finally "equality" the worst case of false advertisement known to man. Not one person is treated equally to the next. Rules apply differently to each individual. In this school contains a shit tonne of slags. Named and shamed (O.P) < initials. To conclude this summary of hell, it is too poor to supply the pupils with a safe and equipt working environment. It is simply shit.
Person 1: Yo, have you heard of FCC?
Person 2: What, Felpham Community college?
Person 1: More like Felpham concentration camp!
Person 2: hahaha its shit