WELL III: Just finished my last exam, which is the last one given at U of M by Prof. Achen, who will be moving on to greener pastures at Princeton next term. His exams were always my favorites because he put ridiculously small word limits on complex topics. As he said this time around:
"I tried to be a little more generous with the word limits this time"
Allow me to give you an example of what this works out to. Omitting, as I will, 2.5 paragraphs of explanation, here's question #3:
(a) What do average voters know about the Iraq issue, in your opinion?
(b) As the voters became more favorable to President Bush after the capture, what were they thinking, in your view?
(c) In your view, does democracy still make sense if that's how the voters think about crucial issues*? Answer with a connection to your theory of democracy.
Word limit: 75 frickin' words! Seesh.
*his answer to this particular question would be 'yes,' lest you think he's one of those biased-liberal professors.
And after I turned in my exams, he gave me a firm handshake, and said "take care of yourself. good luck"
Princeton's pretty damn lucky, that's for sure.
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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