I love school and work from home, but school from home doesn’t work as well for a couple reasons:
- the professors are completely unprepared to do it effectively. I’m surprised they are struggling as much as they are. Many don’t seem to be drawing on any departmental prior experience, or even taking simple training on stuff like how to run a Webex meeting. Some professors clearly know how to do it better and it makes a HUGE difference. So that’s a big issue with the current situation. Some profs are doing a stellar job this semester, others are doing a completely awful job.
- for me, face time with fellow students is really helpful for learning, more so than face time with coworkers being helpful to work. However, in lectures you don’t get that much time to interact with other students anyway, so to me it’s not worth the time of getting to campus
'Learn from home' works very well. College is not about learning, but being among a wide range of people in their prime looking for mates, though. I am not sure we have entirely figured out how to replicate that at home.
I admittedly haven't personally used Tinder, so do correct me if I am wrong, but from what I have learned from reading about it and listening to others who have used it, Tinder seems more like the high school mating pool. Which is to say that you get everyone who happens to live within some geographic area thrown into a pile and leaves you to sort through the mess.
The upsell from colleges is that they filter out the "undesirables", for lack of a better way to put it, and bring the desirable people together from around the country and even the world. The more entrance requirements placed on the students, the more desirable the school is to attend for access to the highest calibre mating pool.
