November 7, 2010

An Intro to Kaust: Take Two

Kaust is a university for humans.  It looks like this...


But sometimes it also looks like this...


Or this...


The founders and administration of Kaust seem to be the only ones who are oblivious to these other faces of the university.  But whether they ignore them or not, Kaust has bad parts as well as good, sometimes far in excess of the good.  The bad parts will not go away on their own.  They need to be acknowledged and rectified, like this…


Actually not like that.  This is what Kaust higher-ups usually do when they are forced to recognize the existence of a problem.  They find a way to waste resources while also carefully avoiding the application of a permanent, viable solution.

Kaust is run with a ton of money, limited competence, and virtually no accountability.  Projections for Kaust by the student body are extremely pessimistic.  Unfortunately, they're also realistic.  I'd say its eventual fate is a C-level university.  Others say it shuts down in 20 years.  Let's take a look before it crumbles into the sand.

1 comment:

  1. Well, I think everything at KAUST is going to be okay...inshallah.

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