The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books
The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books
To read a book in college, it helps to have read a book in high school.
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I wish I had the time to read in college. Between assignments, classes, presentations, and working two jobs reading for me was the stuff of fiction.
Yes, for me this is a much greater factor than attention span.
Reading The Iliad over the next three weeks on holidays, oh nice!
Reading The Iliad over the next three weeks while having a lot of other assignments from different classes, fuuuck me...Reading the Iliad was nice for you?
Haha right xD
Actually I just recently bought it because I finally want to read it. I'll see if I like it...
The article points out that the problem exists in a literature class, where well, you're expected to be able to read a complete book in some week in order to analyze it. That's literally the course.