Not surprisingly, there is not much going on at Amherst in the summer time. Still, I am often surprised to see that Amherst is not completely dead even when most of it’s students are elsewhere.
Case in point, sitting in Schwemms this afternoon, I overheard a few professors from the Computer Science/Mathematics and Physics departments discussing the issue of the practicality of merit-based scholarships, with some professors being solidly opposed to them, and other professors seeing the their advantage but expressing disappointment in their execution. I couldn’t catch the specifics of their debate, but I did notice that the conversation did shift to the whole Annapolis Group vs. U.S. News & World Report situation.
For some reason, I had assumed that professors did not pay attention to such things. That was obviously a grossly-erroneous assumption on my part.
