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Rep Retirement Lodge 81: Trickle-Down Lodganomics

Rep Retirement Lodge 81: Trickle-Down Lodganomics

  • Building a Whale Wars system with Roboshark technology

    Votes: 2 5.4%

  • Funneling weapons through Union-CCHAntra to fight the Dantoncolistas

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Increased production of doormats

    Votes: 1 2.7%

  • "Read my lips: no new hackses."

    Votes: 9 24.3%

  • Women with big hair and leg warmers

    Votes: 3 8.1%

  • Saving the entire country the trouble of watching Dallas by hacking JR to death

    Votes: 2 5.4%

  • Trading pork belly futures... there's bacon in them somewhere

    Votes: 3 8.1%

  • A black-ops CIA operation to keep the Islanders in a time warp from 1980 to 1983

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • All Max Headroom, all the time

    Votes: 4 10.8%

  • Women with leg hair and big warmers?

    Votes: 1 2.7%

  • Snickering at the term "trickle-down"

    Votes: 3 8.1%

  • Putting music back on MTV... like THAT would ever happen, lol

    Votes: 1 2.7%

  • Putting Herb Brooks and John MacInnes in cryogenic storage until they can be cloned

    Votes: 4 10.8%

  • Assassinating Al Gore, preventing the Internet's invention and forestalling any BPH polls

    Votes: 4 10.8%
  • Total voters
    37
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Re: Rep Retirement Lodge 81: Trickle-Down Lodganomics

St. Clown said:
My senior thesis paper was all of 10 pages, 14 including biblio and data. Econ majors got out of writing papers.
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Well, to be fair, how many ways can you explain that in general, when supply goes up, demand goes down, and vice versa? :p
 
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MinnesotaNorthStar said:
I had to write one paper for all my ATC classes...had to be 3-6 pages. Mine was 3 1/2. :D
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Most papers I had to write (in any kind of school) usually contained the minimum pages of real info, and another page or so of BS, so I wouldn't be doing "the bare minimum." Only one teacher called me out on it, and confided that the minimum in his class was only a guideline.

I tested him on it, and turned in a paper 1/2 page short of the min. Got an A. :D
 
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The Business/MIS curriculum at Tech was a bit of a mixed bag, depending on the instructor you got. The classes I learned a lot in, like Finance, Accounting I, Marketing, Business Law, and IT Projects, had demanding and reasonably engaging instructors. However a few of the classes I took and was simply able to coast through left something to be desired with regards to the quality of instruction. Regardless, I somehow got lucky and managed to get most of the good ones.

According to my friends in the ENG department, the same was true for them. There were easy profs whose classes you could more or less coast through, good profs who actually tried to teach you stuff, and boring, senile profs to be avoided at all costs.
 
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Brenthoven said:
Well, to be fair, how many ways can you explain that in general, when supply goes up, demand goes down, and vice versa? :p
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My paper was on uncertainty principles, and risk/reward behavior with regards to right-to-carry concealed weapon laws. Sadly, we weren't allowed use an Econ 206 subject for our paper.

Although, there is a terribly uninteresting examination of gift giving habits in Japan which were thought to break the known demand curve. It's only uninteresting because the author found out that people still behave as expected along a demand curve, only they hide it and lie to the gift recipient.
 
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Brenthoven said:
Most papers I had to write (in any kind of school) usually contained the minimum pages of real info, and another page or so of BS, so I wouldn't be doing "the bare minimum." Only one teacher called me out on it, and confided that the minimum in his class was only a guideline.

I tested him on it, and turned in a paper 1/2 page short of the min. Got an A. :D
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We had to have 3 sources...only 2 could be wiki (yes, that's right). Needless to say, the paper was a formality. I wrote 3 1/2 pages and said basically nothing. :D
 
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MinnesotaNorthStar said:
I had to write one paper for all my ATC classes...had to be 3-6 pages. Mine was 3 1/2. :D
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Brenthoven said:
Most papers I had to write (in any kind of school) usually contained the minimum pages of real info, and another page or so of BS, so I wouldn't be doing "the bare minimum." Only one teacher called me out on it, and confided that the minimum in his class was only a guideline.

I tested him on it, and turned in a paper 1/2 page short of the min. Got an A. :D
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Ahhhh, papers. I could ramble on about anything, keep it on topic (mostly), and make it entertaining. I sucked at research, but aside from a few required courses, I mostly took creative writing courses, so I could just write. I rarely came in under the minimum.
 
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MinnesotaNorthStar said:
We had to have 3 sources...only 2 could be wiki (yes, that's right). Needless to say, the paper was a formality. I wrote 3 1/2 pages and said basically nothing. :D
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Wiki. Sheesh. And I thought my friends and I were bad. Did you know that we all wrote a few books each while in H.S.?

There were rules: can't use the person's name more than once a year, never for the same teacher (even if it was a year later), and the author had to go to a different HS.
 
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MinnesotaNorthStar said:
We had to have 3 sources...only 2 could be wiki (yes, that's right). Needless to say, the paper was a formality. I wrote 3 1/2 pages and said basically nothing. :D
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So they prepared you well for your life on USCHO then.
 
Re: Rep Retirement Lodge 81: Trickle-Down Lodganomics

For me, we've got to take 160.5 credits worth of classes for my B.S. degree. 18 of those come during the summer on our training ship or the internship I did this summer. That means that I need 142.5 credits, in 4 years, which averages out to be 17.8/semester. For the most part, my degree is a more or less a business degree, with a bunch of USCG license classes added in, mostly sophomore year on, with more of them being in the spring than the fall.

I took 15/19.5 credits freshman year, then 21 /19 (plus 2, 2 hour labs, both no credit) last year, taking 23 this fall, but then I get to coast with ~15 each semester for my final 3. All of this culminates with my USCG license exam (7 parts taken over 5 days, a few I need to score 90+ on to pass.) It isn't the BAR or the MCAT so to speak, but is essentially as important.

We've got 21 as a limit for credit overload, where you need the department chair to approve, if you're over 24, you need the provost to approve as well.
 
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JFC. I THINK (and hope, actually) that credits were measured differently in my day (and at my college). For freshman year, 12 was normal, 16 required an okay, and more than that? Good luck. In soph year and on, I think it was up to 16/20. You better be Einstein and/or a great BSer. They also looked at things like if you had a job, or any other extracurricular activities.
 
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Brenthoven said:
JFC. I THINK (and hope, actually) that credits were measured differently in my day (and at my college). For freshman year, 12 was normal, 16 required an okay, and more than that? Good luck. In soph year and on, I think it was up to 16/20. You better be Einstein and/or a great BSer. They also looked at things like if you had a job, or any other extracurricular activities.
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12 is a full time student at UND...
 
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MinnesotaNorthStar said:
12 is a full time student at UND...
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ya, 12 is a full-timer at school too, but our majors are just real intensive for a bachelors (science or engineering). ****, our naval architecture major, with a deck officer license (navigation, etc) is 183 credits for 9 semesters, including the 18 for summer credit.
 
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hockeyplayer1015 said:
ya, 12 is a full-timer at school too, but our majors are just real intensive for a bachelors (science or engineering). ****, our naval architecture major, with a deck officer license (navigation, etc) is 183 credits for 9 semesters, including the 18 for summer credit.
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Where do you go to school? :confused:

I'm gonna guess a service academy...
 
Re: Rep Retirement Lodge 81: Trickle-Down Lodganomics

MinnesotaNorthStar said:
Where do you go to school? :confused:

I'm gonna guess a service academy...
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Eh, it isn't a service academy per se. Its NY's state maritime "academy", and while we have a cadet regiment, it isn't related to the military at all, only if you opt for ROTC.

We're related closest to the Merchant Marines, followed by the Coasties. Actually, the US Merchant Marine Academy (King's Point) is right across the river from us, and is our arch rival.
 
Re: Rep Retirement Lodge 81: Trickle-Down Lodganomics

MinnesotaNorthStar said:
Most lab reports follow a format, don't they? Which makes them relatively "easier" then a regular paper. Mind you, I'm not calling them easy by any means...
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First off, regular papers have a format. Whether it's an essay or a research paper, you are following a specified format (intro w/ thesis statement, body paragraphs, and a conclusion). Secondly, lab reports are not easier because you can't get away with BS'ing in them - you have to use very technical language and be very specific about everything because you are going into detail about an experiment (principles involved, the yield, etc). There's also a lot of data analysis.
 
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