Reply #100: It seems in today's world I would have been booted out for good.

[hunter]

Sorry, you blew it, you can't cut it here, and there are plenty of people waiting to take your seat...

Instead various professors and university staff always looked out for me. I remember one week I turned in an English paper that was utter gibberish. The professor took me aside, chatted with me a little bit, and then she walked me down to the student health center. It turned out I'd had a bad reaction to prednisone I'd recently been prescribed. It could have turned out very badly if nobody had noticed.

One problem with many big universities is that students get thrown into these huge classes where nobody knows who the are, and the teaching assistants are too busy to care. The social darwinists among our politicians probably see universities as factories for turning out people with degrees, and they don't support any services not directly related to that. Students who can't get those degrees at the lowest possible cost and the least amount of trouble are unwelcome.