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Rep Retirement Lodge 95: A USCHO Retrospective

Rep Retirement Lodge 95: A USCHO Retrospective

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Re: Rep Retirement Lodge 95: A USCHO Retrospective

crazytechfan said:
IIRC, it's everyone.
Just took a look at the syllabus..
I get to:
write journals
have a conference with my instructor :rolleyes:
lead the class for a day with my group
send my prof an "About Me" email
keep track of everything I do in a week
find out what type of animal I am

...among other things.

Twitch, I think this crap just started a couple of years ago. Maybe even last year.
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That sounds a lot like Freshman Seminar at NMU, I think. I avoided that mess like the plague.
 
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nmupiccdiva said:
That sounds a lot like Freshman Seminar at NMU, I think. I avoided that mess like the plague.
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Lucky.
I seriously have learned this stuff a million times. This is like.. the basis of BPA, and I'm a freaking state officer. I know what to do, I just need to do it.
Something tells me this is going to be the biggest waste of a credit of my life.
 
Re: Rep Retirement Lodge 95: A USCHO Retrospective

crazytechfan said:
IIRC, it's everyone.
Just took a look at the syllabus..
I get to:
write journals
have a conference with my instructor :rolleyes:
lead the class for a day with my group
send my prof an "About Me" email
keep track of everything I do in a week
find out what type of animal I am

...among other things.

Twitch, I think this crap just started a couple of years ago. Maybe even last year.
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Class sounds like a load of crap. I'd be making snarky journal entries like "I'm now failing Physics because you just HAD to have me find out what animal I was the day before the exam..."

And the animal thing comes straight from Leadershape, I guarantee it. I did it in Psi.
 
Re: Rep Retirement Lodge 95: A USCHO Retrospective

crazytechfan said:
IIRC, it's everyone.
Just took a look at the syllabus..
I get to:
write journals
have a conference with my instructor :rolleyes:
lead the class for a day with my group
send my prof an "About Me" email
keep track of everything I do in a week
find out what type of animal I am

...among other things.

Twitch, I think this crap just started a couple of years ago. Maybe even last year.
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I wish I would have had to keep track of everything I did in a week during my senior year...after I'd already accepted my offer.

Monday:
10:00 wake up (skipping an 8am in the process)
10:15 plow snow
11:00 class
12:00 lunch
1:00 class
2:00 watch ESPN on the big screen in the Memorial Union
3:00 go home, mix a drink
3:10 read a book (not one that has anything to do with school)
5:00 make dinner, mix a drink
6:00 plow snow
7:00 watch hockey/MNF, mix a drink
8:00 get in argument with roommate over football or hockey, mix a couple more drinks
9:00 decide, along with roommate, to go to the DT to watch the second half of MNF
1:30 stumble home from DT
2:30 go to sleep

repeat something similar for each day...
 
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Twitch Boy said:
Class sounds like a load of crap. I'd be making snarky journal entries like "I'm now failing Physics because you just HAD to have me find out what animal I was the day before the exam..."

And the animal thing comes straight from Leadershape, I guarantee it. I did it in Psi.
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lol, I'd totally do that if the prof wasn't my cousin. Therein lies the problem. :p

I was supposed to go to Leadershape this year... but couldn't because of BPA. Yes, yet one more thing BPA's restricted me from doing.
 
Re: Rep Retirement Lodge 95: A USCHO Retrospective

Twitch Boy said:
Class sounds like a load of crap. I'd be making snarky journal entries like "I'm now failing Physics because you just HAD to have me find out what animal I was the day before the exam..."

And the animal thing comes straight from Leadershape, I guarantee it. I did it in Psi.
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I'd do the same.
I'll bet you do a multiple intelligences test, and something to help you figure out your "learning style".
 
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I wasn't aware such classes existed at places that were called a "college", unless prefaced by the word "community".
 
Re: Rep Retirement Lodge 95: A USCHO Retrospective

crazytechfan said:
*sigh* Thanks a million.
(If I had a dollar for every time I've taken one of these tests...)
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Same. I saw a lot of these, a lot of times in ED courses. I have linguistic, self/intra-personal, and musical intelligences.
 
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What a load of hippie-dippy bullsh-t. They make you take another class to supplement how you're struggling with real classes. F-ck that sh-t.
 
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nmupiccdiva said:
Same. I saw a lot of these, a lot of times in ED courses. I have linguistic, self/intra-personal, and musical intelligences.
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I can't even remember what I have...
Though, go figure, it always told me that business is something I should think about. I guess I should've listened to it.
GreatLakerMohawk said:
What a load of hippie-dippy bullsh-t. They make you take another class to supplement how you're struggling with real classes. F-ck that sh-t.
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Re: Rep Retirement Lodge 95: A USCHO Retrospective

crazytechfan said:
Is she the first one of her generation to really screw up too? Because that, apparently, makes it even worse. :( :mad:
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Kinda... her older sister graduated 6th in her HS class and has never gotten lower than 3.8 in 2 full years at college (got her first 4.0 this semester). But it wasn't academics that did her in... she got kicked out of her dorm 5 weeks into the semester for conduct violations. :mad: :o
 
Re: Rep Retirement Lodge 95: A USCHO Retrospective

GreatLakerMohawk said:
What a load of hippie-dippy bullsh-t. They make you take another class to supplement how you're struggling with real classes. F-ck that sh-t.
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On one hand, I agree with you. If you're in college, you should already know this stuff and if you screw up it's your own fault (as ctf here has already acknowledged). On the other hand, the part of me that spent 5 years in teacher training can see the benefit of something like this. However, it sounds like something that should be taken first thing when you get to college, and no later as it would waste time that could be spent on ACTUAL degree related material.
 
Re: Rep Retirement Lodge 95: A USCHO Retrospective

MarkEagleUSA said:
Kinda... her older sister graduated 6th in her HS class and has never gotten lower than 3.8 in 2 full years at college (got her first 4.0 this semester). But it wasn't academics that did her in... she got kicked out of her dorm 5 weeks into the semester for conduct violations. :mad: :o
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Yeah, my older cousins all did relatively well, one of my cousins is at Tech now, and he's been on the Dean's List every semester but this one. Doesn't help either that my dad graduated magna cum laude 3 years ago from Tech...
 
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That's where my mom's epic academic nose dive at Ferris came in handy. The standard wasn't set too high for me. Then again, trying to hold the academic scholarship I had kept me somewhat in line, but trying to drag someone else kicking and screaming though school (and in the end failing) didn't help my cause. :mad:
 
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Ac pro is actually rampant at Tech, especially in the freshman/sophomore years which are a weeder class extravaganza. All it takes is one bombed class to drag your semester GPA below a 2.0. For instance, you have a semester with 4 loaded classes and your grades are B, C, C, F...assuming all are equally weighted, that's a 1.75, and there you have it. And Tech loves to throw those loaded semesters at you.

It's not that the material is too hard, it's that the way Tech structures its learning environment forces the student to work on their own for success. Tech leaves a lot of the learning up to the students to figure out for themselves, and not everyone is prepared to do that right away.

ctf, you're saying a lot of the right things with regards to this. It is up to you to act on them. It's not up to your learning style or which animal you are or which intelligences you allegedly do or don't have. That information is meaningless if you don't put in the effort the classes ask of you. There is plenty of help available in any classes you have trouble with, and they won't come to you, you have to go to them.

What you're going through/about to go through is the single most important lesson Tech has for you. If you can learn it, you will be that much a stronger person for it.
 
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