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The fact that educational reform needs to take place at the higher levels caught my attention.  I, as most people/scientists, just assumed that the reform needed to take place at the lower levels.  My experience of introductory science was different from the stand-in’s experience but I believe there was one important variable that the experiment did not control for.  I think maturity and their time spent away from school are really important factors in their critiques of their fellow student’s apathy and the overall lack of a narrative in their classes. I think with maturity your study habits and ideals for classes change and when you are an undergraduate you are often still in a high school way of thinking, especially freshmen year.  In high school, competition between classmates and grades are emphasized as everyone is competing to get into college so naturally those things carry over to college.  Perhaps then, it is important to also evaluate how the college admissions processes work.