Re: "The Good Girl" and Graduate School

Amber,
I am an undergraduate at Saint Louis University, and I also happen to be a
psych major. So many people at this school don't really like it here, but I
rather enjoy it. And the professors in the psych department are so
interesting here, in my opinion, and they are willing to help you without
being condescending. The grad students that teach my classes are extremely
accessible and very helpful too.
I've had very positive experiences with the psych department here.

                          Good Luck, Jaime

----- Original Message -----
From: "Raley, Amber" <araley@agnesscott.edu>
To: "'m e g h a n '" <bedroomdancing@hotmail.com>;
<bananafish@roughdraft.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 5:22 AM
Subject: "The Good Girl" and Graduate School

> Meghan et al.,
>
> You statements seem to almost describe the Holden character (Tom is his
> slave name) from the film "The Good Girl." Did anyone else see this movie
> and have any thoughts about the strong Salinger connection? It was a bit
> overboard in my opinion. Maybe that was the point?
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Amber
>
> P.S. Non-Salinger material to follow. I will (hopefully) be going into
an
> Industrial/Organizational Psychology PhD program next year. To all of the
> resident academics are any of you familiar with the 'atmosphere' of any of
> my top 10 choices for Graduate school?
> 1. Pennsylvania State University
> 2. Bowling Green State University
> 3. Saint Louis University
> 4. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
> 5. University of Connecticut
> 6. Colorado State University
> 7. Portland State University
> 8. Texas A&M University
> 9. Rice University
> 10. University of California, Berkeley
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: m e g h a n
> To: bananafish@roughdraft.org
> Sent: 9/3/2002 8:53 PM
> Subject: Re: intelligence of the author vs. intelligence of the characters
>
>
> >I actually feel the same way you do about Catcher and the Glass stories
> (I
> >get a lot more out of the Glass stories). . .just, if you want to judge
> >Salinger's influence, there's just no getting around or beyond Catcher.
>
> I agree also. What gets me about "Catcher" is that (this may be
> selfish)it's
> not Salinger's best work, yet it's taught in high schools, which gets it
> a
> lot of exposure. Then you have kids full of real or imagined angst who
> are
> like, man that book is me! I can relate! And they then credit Salinger
> as
> their favorite author.. without ever reading any of his other (better)
> work.
> It's just given too much credit. The selfish part comes in because I
> first
> read Catcher when I was 13, I had seen it in a bookstore and made my mom
> buy
> it. Fast forward three years, it's being taught in english and there's
> 100
> kids or however many in my class saying how much they love it.. when
> they
> probably never would have read it on their own. I guess I should hope
> that
> someone reads Catcher in english class, and then reads Salinger's other
> work
> and falls in love with it like I did, and then I can thank Catcher for
> that.
>
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