A Tale of Two Colleges in a City
Interestingly enough, I am currently attending Bunker Hill Community College as well as the Harvard Extension. They are pretty much the best representatives for each end of the spectrum of universities in Boston. BHCC has a lot of kids from city high schools, as well as over 600 international students. It has joint admissions programs with the state schools in Massachusetts (UMass Amherst, UMass Boston, etc.), and is considered one of the better options for students looking to move on to a four-year university after their stay at the Bunk. The community colleges and state schools in Massachusetts pale in comparison to their counterparts in California, say, but they provide a decent and affordable education.
Harvard, by contrast, is the most prestigious college in the United States. As a disclaimer, I should note that the extension is open to all, so I can’t claim any accomplishment for treading the “hallowed grounds” of Harvard Yard. Decent and affordable are two words long absent from the Harvard dictionary. I think it is quite likely I’m the first individual to be attending both of these institutions concurrently, and it should provide the opportunity for numerous societal and academic observations; or at the very least, the opportunity to make clichéd class contrasts, jokes and soap box declarations. Stay tuned. At least it’s not politics, right?
1 comment November 6th, 2007