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I'm a PhD student in literature. My background is in publishing, communications, and teaching. I came to Helium when I found myself writing lengthy responses to articles posted on other sites, and realized that I should be writing the actual articles, not just the responses!

Education > College Search The benefits of small colleges

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My college had 2,000 students. My graduate university has 40,000. There are advantages and disadvantages to each. Now that I am a TA, I have a chance to see what college life is like for students at a large university, and it makes me value having attended a small college. When I was an undergraduate student, I never had more than about 15 or 20 students in a classroom. My classes were taught by professors, not TAs. Technically speaking, this is the difference between a "college" and a "university" colleges do not have graduate departments, and so they have no TAs. If I had a question abou...

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