3 Responses to My Hypothesis—TonySoprano

1. davidbdale says:

   September 23, 2023 at 2:32 pm

   I’m happy to entertain the topic of College as Preparation for Life Success, but unless you very narrowly define “Your college experience” and “how successful you will be,” your hypothesis will be too vague to prove OR disprove. How much narrower can you go?

   For example:

   My “college experience” included sharing classes with lots of connected, influential people that I befriended and called on to help me launch and advance my career. I got crap grades and plagiarized my papers, but my “college experience” made me very successful.

   Does that help you see how vague your term is? Let’s focus this hypothesis and share an update here or on Zoom.

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2. tonysoprano44 says:

   September 27, 2023 at 4:35 pm

   I plan on diving into the correlation between the major you pursue in college and your grades, compared to the networking skills you gain as well as overall adulting skills. I want to question what defines a successful college experience and why college is crucial even if not for a degree. I want to interview my dad, who got a degree in architecture but never actually used it, and how his experiences prepared him for the workforce. I can also use the book “Connecting in College: How Friendship Networks Matter for Academic and Social Success” by Janice M. McCabe, which dives into the success rate of college graduates based on who they met and what they got involved with rather than their academic success and their grades.

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   • davidbdale says:

     September 28, 2023 at 1:38 pm

     I like that explanation, Tony. Can I earn my pay by offering some advice on how to structure even something as inconsequential as a Reply to a blog post? Yes? Thanks. I’ll do that. 🙂

     I plan on diving into the correlation between the major you pursue in college and your grades, . . .
     —That sounds as if you’re going to examine to what degree the choice of a major RELATES TO grade point average. But, of course, that’s not what you mean at all.

     . . . compared to the networking skills you gain as well as overall adulting skills. . . .
     —Your sentence says you’re going to COMPARE that major/grades correlation with networking skills. In addition to that, you plan to somehow address adulting skills.

     From our conversation, I gather that you want to do this:

     I plan to research whether a students’ choice of major, her grades, or the networking skills she develops while in college is more likely to determine her post-graduation career success. My Hypothesis so far is that “adulting” skills (or lack of them) are the better indicator of success than grades or major.

     Is that annoying or helpful (or both)? 🙂

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