{"id":33,"date":"2002-01-05T13:32:23","date_gmt":"2002-01-05T18:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/wordpress\/briefcases_of_money"},"modified":"2002-01-05T13:32:23","modified_gmt":"2002-01-05T18:32:23","slug":"briefcases_of_money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/2002\/01\/briefcases_of_money.html","title":{"rendered":"Briefcases of Money"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nM’ris<\/a> is back from vacation, but she
\nseems pretty swamped with going through the
\nWIHA<\/a> slush.
\nI sent her a non-WIHA related email, and her response began like this:\n<\/p>\n

\n

Thanks for sending this e-mail along, but I’m afraid it’s not for
\nme. Aside from a passing mention, it had nothing to do with aliens, much
\nless with hating them. Best of luck placing it elsewhere.<\/p>\n

Oh. Sorry. You get into the zone, you know… <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\nSpeaking of M’ris, her January 4 journal entry is on
\ncollege and niche marketing<\/a>.
\nSpecifically, she’s talking about her alma mater,
\nGustavus Adolphus College<\/a>, and the
\nfact that they are eliminating “J-term”, which is a one-month term in January
\nwhere you take one course. I’m not sure if J-term is unique to Gustavus,
\nbut it’s got to be reasonably rare, anyway.\n<\/p>\n

\nM’ris is not in favor of the ditching-of-the-J-term. She says, rightly, that
\nit’s good that the thousands of different colleges and universities
\nin this country are so different from each other, and they should stay that
\nway. The more niches that colleges manage to satisfy, the better for students.\n<\/p>\n

\nThat’s all true. Although I’ve got one nit to pick: perhaps
\nbecause I am not a Gustavus alum, I’m a bit confused
\nabout why J-term is so important for Gustavus’s niche marketing.
\nClearly Gustavus has many many<\/em> attributes that differentiate it from
\nHarvey Mudd, BYU, Simon’s Rock, Yale, Bob Jones, Duke, or Florida State…
\nis J-term really all that high on the list? Maybe for some. I dunno.\n<\/p>\n

\nAnyway<\/em>, the real reason I brought this up
\nwas that M’ris does a spot-on<\/em> job of describing the different types of
\ncollege students. For the heck of it, here’s my take on the subject:\n<\/p>\n

The Three Types of College Students<\/H4><\/p>\n