The idea that a student would do more than expected rather then less was that foreign to my professor. College has taught me one great lesson. I can't rely on an institution to make me a better man, but I can use an institution to make myself a better man. Maybe that is all the college-level education I need. In truth I employed quite a bit of literary exaggeration when describing Manhattan College.
Manhattan is a fine institution.
That is not to say that Manhattan has no problems. Like any other college, Manhattan is replete with problems, and thousands of spoiled teenagers will never fail to highlight each and every one of them. But I will be proud to graduate with a degree from MC, and I'd like to think that while I am here I can at least be an active part of the solution rather than a loud-mouthed part of the problem. My Literature professor, who accused me of plagiarism, has since suggested I take up a minor in English. I suppose all's well that ends well.