Six Words: Admit, Attraction, Activity, Mosaic, Economics, Preference
I attended a college that is best known for engineering and architecture. That is the main attraction for students who attend the Illinois Institute of Technology. We tend to have a preference for math and science. Activities like football or wrestling are not typically a high priority. The student body in engineering colleges tends to be a mosaic of skin tones, hair colors and accents.
IIT required engineering students to take several hours of liberal arts courses. Although I got my best grades in those courses, I didn’t know why they were required. But I do admit that the course that I remember best was economics. I even remember the professor’s name. He was Dr. Brown and his often repeated advice was: “don’t perpetuate the maladjustment. If farmers can’t make enough money because prices are too low, don’t give them subsidies. Shoot some farmers and burn some crops.”