Re: Rep Retirement Lodge 81: Trickle-Down Lodganomics
Morning Lodge!
I made a dinner for my girlfriend and myself last night: Chicken breast stuffed with a mixture of spices, bread crumbs, parmesean cheese, garlic, onions, mushrooms and bacon then finished with a balsamic and coke (yes, I use coke for cooking
) reduction/glaze. Along with that I had finely diced potatos(fresh from my mom's garden) with onions, garlic, bacon, olive oil and spices. Lastly, I steamed some sweet peas(in pod) and brocoli, then did a quick saute of it in garlic butter. Overall it was very good.
No offense to you, but this perception by science-minded kids really bothers me. Just because you have more class hours doesn't mean that you don't spend as much time studying as a Humanities major. Those hours that you spend studying for a test or in lab probably come close to the average time a humanities student (a hard working one, anyway) spends in the library doing research for papers and writing them. While it definitely sucks to have 3 or 4 comprehensive exams, writing 100+ pages on several subjects isn't exactly a walk in the park either.
/rant
Sorry.
I always did my research and only took humanities classes from profs that realized that we were engineers and didn't care about their classes, so graded easy. My non-engineering classes at Tech were easy and I just BSed my way through, except for one that was required and I got stuck with a psychotic grad student lecturer that couldn't speak english and thought that I should care about his class
The only gen ed class that I thought was useful was the economics class, not the required economic decision making analysis class, but the one that was more on the theory. That was a dry, but very informative class.
STC = Skipping Tough Classes.
/actually almost was one
Don't anger tDarkness!!!!
I took 19 credits once (with 2 1/2 credit PEs) and it sucked. Luckily it was early, so the classes weren't too tough (but it felt that they were at the time). I think I had calc 3, materials, dynamics, thermodynamics, mech of materials, enterprise and an enterprise module in one semester. Wow, that doesn't seem that hard at this point...
CS can stand for either Computer Science or Counterstrike.
STC (Scientific and Technical Communication) stands for Skipping Tough Classes as I mentioned.
The basic Geology class is called Rocks for Jocks because **** near everyone has to take it and it literally has a curve on top of a curve (the exams are curved, and the final grade itself is curved.)
I've heard of the intro level Circuits class being called Circuits for Nonbelievers.
I've heard of rocks for jocks, but I don't know anyone that actually took it. It sure wasn't required for ME, so that means about half of campus didn't need to take it.
Circuits for nonbelievers wasn't much fun at all, not extremely hard, but I just can't get into electrical stuff. On another note, there is a class at Tech, for non-engineers that is actually called "Engineering for Non-Believers"
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.
You can BS lab reports, it just takes a BSer of the highest level to do it. At school I occasionally did it, but not too often since it is usually easier to actually write the lab report than BS it. Lab reports really bothered me, because I just couldn't see the point in writing a report on an experiment that has been done a million times. Its not like we were doing cutting edge stuff in undergrad energy lab that needed to properly documented for the world. Yeah, I understand that they made us do it so we know how to write technically for when we have to write reports in the real world, but since technical writing has always come pretty easy to me, it seemed like a waste of good drinking time.
And other news- L'il came home with Big Papi's batting gloves from BP given after Big Papi hugged him and a baseball signed by Ellsbury.
That is awesome, even though they're Red Sox
Took some aspirin, feel a little better. My clients are both out today. Maybe I can leave early.
