Weekly Posting of the Conservative Cow Doctor

College Scam

Three college classes landed me where I am today. Solid core classes like calculus, accounting, organic chemistry, and quantitative analysis trained the logic centers of my brain but their impact was more subtle than my big three.

Number one was a freshman level drafting class taught in the engineering college at the University of Wyoming. The instructor said this single class could make you employable by the end of the semester. Even though I never received pay for running a mechanical pencil and T-square, over 47 years I have designed and built three houses, one barn and a veterinary clinic.

The second of my big three was English Composition, where I refined my interest in creative writing. Were it not for this class, there would be no Conservative Cow Doctor penning perfectly polished political papers. Instead, I would be the cranky old cow doctor staggering around the clinic like most crippled, 65-year-old veterinarians in small town USA.

Now to the third. During my junior year of vet school, cows were rotated through head catches so vet students could develop their touch for rectal palpation. It was wintertime and the class was held in a cold, open-sided barn. Students particularly interested in food animal practice seized the opportunity to hone their digital sensitivity, while prospective dog and cat practitioners seized the opportunity to warm their arms. To demonstrate a gentle touch when palpating ovaries, the instructor jokingly suggested cradling the ovary in your left hand and placing your right had in your coverall pocket and squeezing your testicle with equal pressure. Pondering that point, a student asked what classmate Lisa should do. A third vet student offered she could use the farmer’s. That was 1982 and you can’t say that today without triggering some snowflake and earning a trip to sensitivity training.

At the opposite end of my college-class, value scale were the humanities and social science electives. These useless classes were required under the misguided claim such exposure created well-rounded graduates. Interestingly, students targeting a masters in angry women studies were not required to take ten hours of calculus or chemistry, so the well-rounded thing is garbage, and this brings me to my point. If you eliminated elective requirements, the cost of a college degree would shrink by half along with the university faculty payroll. Knowing this, President Biden shifted student debt from gender studies graduates to plumbers to keep college faculty activists producing mind-numbed Democrat voters. All the world’s knowledge was placed at your fingertips the day you learned to read, so college is mostly a scam.