#the new class

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[gregor-samsung]

The New Class is not exclusive. While virtually no one leaves it, thousands join it every year. Overwhelmingly, the qualification is education. Any individual whose adolescent situation is such that sufficient time and money are invested in his preparation, and who has at least the talents to carry him through the formal academic routine, can be a member. There is a hierarchy within the class. The son of the factory worker who becomes an electrical engineer is on the lower edge; his son who does graduate work and becomes a university physicist moves to the higher echelons; but opportunity for education is, in either case, the open sesame. There can be little question that in the last one hundred and fifty years, and even in the last few decades, the New Class has increased enormously in size. In early nineteenth-century England or the United States, excluding the leisure class and considering the New Class as a group that lived on what it has carefully called earned income, it consisted only of a handful of educators and clerics, with, in addition, a trifling number of writers, journalists and artists. In the United States of the eighteen-fifties, it could not have numbered more than a few thousand individuals. Now the number whose primary identification is with their job, rather than the income it returns, is in the millions. Some of the attractiveness of membership in the New Class, to be sure, derives from a vicarious feeling of superiority—another manifestation of class attitudes. However, membership in the class unquestionably has other and more important rewards. Exemption from manual toil; escape from boredom and confining and severe routine; the chance to spend one's life in clean and physically comfortable surroundings; and some opportunity for applying one's thoughts to the day's work are regarded as unimportant only by those who take them completely for granted. For these reasons, it has been possible to expand the New Class greatly without visibly reducing its attractiveness. This being so, there is every reason to conclude that the further and rapid expansion of this class should be a major, and perhaps next to peaceful survival itself, the major social goal of the society. Since education is the operative factor in expanding the class, investment in education, assessed qualitatively as well as quantitatively, becomes very close to being the basic index of social progress. It enables people to realize a dominant aspiration. It is an internally consistent course of development.

John Kenneth Galbraith, The Affluent Society, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1958

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RAVENCLAW: “Tyranny of the mind is the most complete and most brutal type of tyranny; every other tyranny begins and ends with it.” –Milovan Djilas (The New Class)

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This week on “The New Class,” Sierra is awarded a scholarship (!), Rowan shows us the MUN DISC (Disability Information and Support Centre) office, and Andreas prepares for a new job at Walt Disney World.

[memorialfutureu]

This week on “The New Class,” Alaina shares her plans for the summer, Andreas talks about living at home and visiting Toronto, and Jeremy takes us inside the School of Pharmacy’s practice lab to show us what he’s learned so far.

[memorialfutureu]

5 Quick Tips to Keep Your 2017 University Application On-Track

The beginning of any new year presents you with an opportunity to do some planning for the year ahead. We want to make sure you are as prepared as can be. Here are some tips to help you with.

1. Follow us on social

Our social media channels are some of the best ways to stay informed with what is happening at Memorial. Whether it’s a blog about study tips or a Snapchat story about the MUN Outdoor Adventure Society, we are always making and sharing content that we hope you will find useful. Check out all the channels below:

📷  Instagram 👻  Snapchat: memorialu 🐦  Twitter 😄 📖  Facebook

2. Double-check our admission requirements

Uncertain if you meet our admission requirements? We have developed a handy admissions funnel on our website that will guide you to the right set of requirements. Whether you are a Canadian or an international student, the admissions funnel will show you what it will take to meet our general admission requirements.

VISIT: http://www.mun.ca/undergrad/admissions/

3. Apply early

Applying early gives you one less thing to worry about. It is perfectly normal (and encouraged) if you apply before you have your final grades. You can send along an interim transcript and that should be enough for us to determine provisional acceptance until your final grades are available.

4. Book a campus tour

See our campus for yourself by booking a campus tour. Let us know when you will be in St. John’s and we can arrange a tour that works for you. Family and friends are welcome to accompany you on the tour that will likely be led by a current Memorial student. Book here.

5. Watch the MUN student experience

In Fall 2016 we launched a web series which follows a group of new students as they experience Memorial's St. John's campus during the 2016-17 academic year. Watch the trailer below and watch more episodes to get a sense of what student life is all about for first year MUN students.

Until next time, -Jeremy

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This week on “The New Class,” Andreas preps for exams and signs up to help new students at Winter Welcome, Rowan takes us along on his comic book haul, and Sierra shares her experience balancing school and her social life while also missing home. “The New Class” is a web series which follows a group of new students as they experience Memorial's St. John's campus in the 2016/2017 academic year. Through their eyes, we encounter the opportunities and challenges new students face throughout their first year of life at university in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.

Interested in learning more about Memorial University? Fill out our information request form.

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WWD 'The New Class' featuring Luca Bertea and Omar Ahmed by David Urbanke with styling from Alex Badia x the April 2016 Issue of WWD