Perstein's article titled "What's the Matter With College?" seemingly meanders in and out of what I see as a non-issue. What he seems to be incapable of understanding is how college life today is different that it was today, and has adapted for the current generation. Just because college was formerly the "noisey, dissident minority" back in the day, doesn't necessarily mean that what it is today--a place where students embrace the opportunity to learn in order to flourish in the future--is "bad." His argument aggravated me, not only because I disagree on so many levels, but because the structure and validity of the argument is lacking and weak.
In contrast to the first article, the article entitled "Why College Matters" by Travis Weinger (a modern day college student) elicited quite the opposite response from me; I wholeheartedly agree with not only his opinion based on his arguments and counterarguments, but I appreciate his appropriately sarcastic tone as a means of protesting Perstein's weak arguments. The diction provides a much more unique and intriguing argument that successfully rebuts the original essay's fervor through satirical and critical language.
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