You would remember Econ Bob. He was as colorful as Leonid Breznev and as engaging as an empty parking lot.
I have to assume he is still teaching Econ 101, because even if he died, there wouldn't be really any noticeable difference in his delivery.
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I have to assume he is still teaching Econ 101, because even if he died, there wouldn't be really any noticeable difference in his delivery.
I feel like this gif will be applicable about 50 times in this thread. I almost posted it myself lol.Do kids still call it that??
I was a put directly in 151. Did 150 help with 151? Because I think it wouldn’t have hurt me.
Only class I ever dropped was that physics class. Neither the prof or TA spoke English as their first language. The concepts are difficult enough. When you can’t understand the person there to help you learn them, it’s no fun.
Met my wife tutoring her through Econ 101 and Chem 163. Figured if we got along through that we could survive anything. Accurate.
It was sex ed for me for different reasons. The classroom was a mix of every college, every gender, and everyone was there for an easy A and a good time. It might as well have been Woodstock.
Even a zillion decades later, I remember a decent amount of course numbers, and a few prof names, but oddly the recall is better for courses from my first two or three years and hazy for the final two or so. Possibly because college was still "new" in the early stage and had fewer things on my mind in general.
Last time I reviewed my transcript, a couple of classes in final couple of semesters, I looked at the number and title, and thought, "I don't remember that at all!"
The head of the math department wrote on a black board like a dot matrix printer. Dude took forever to write a problem on the board. Letters were long and narrow and he moved very methodically when he wrote left to write.
Very similar. I think it was spring quarter of freshman year or fall of sophomore. I was completely lost in ComSci 1XX. Dropped it about 1/3 the way through. So a couple summer sessions and an extra quarter to get through BSCE requirements.
I feel like that first semester is always so difficult just because of the dialects of all the instructors. Takes a bit to get used to, but the ability to understand people that speak differently than an Iowan is probably more important than anything I learned in that first semester.
I don’t remember the course number for diff eq. But I had this happen. First class I could not understand a word the prof said. Not a single one. I had a gut feeling it wasn’t going to go well so I dropped it. Took it again the next semester and could understand the prof clear as day and got an A.
Oh, I did drop a Physics class. The second in the series of 3.
I struggled with the first one. I remember one of the tests graded on the curve. If you got 12 out of 36 points that was still a passing grade. I think I barely got a C in the course. The prof was not good (Cook, as I remember).
I signed up for the second one and told myself if he was the prof I was going to drop and take something else. Walked in the first day and sat in the front row. Cook walked in, I stood up and walked out and immediately went to my advisor to drop it. I took the second and third ones with a different prof and he was fine.
Just to humble brag... I had a REALLY good high school physics teacher. He derived the equations, gave us actual math problems to apply them. So all of 221 and over half of 222 was absolutely just a review for me, aced both classes.
Meanwhile, I had friends in class who had gone to big schools and done AP physics, but had no idea math was involved. They basically learned history of physics, but no application or math. They got killed in there.
Shows how important a teacher can be to a ton of students. Any teachers reading this - push your students! They may not like it now but someday they will realize you were the best.
Wouldn't be surprised if it's heavy on math, chemistry, or engineering courses. Those tend to be the usual suspects when it comes to drop rates.
327 is always high, one of the perks of choosing Software Engineering over CS was you could take CPR E 288 instead.
Fascinating to see Comp Sci drops. The real issue isn't programming. It's Systems Architecture.
Programming is now essentially a commodity, from which AI is making enormous strides. As a Comp Sci graduate with 40+ years of experience, I wouldn't recommend any student major in 'programming' unless it had direct correlation to AI/ML or 'security' programming. Otherwise you'll find yourself as a 'temp' the rest of your life. Oddly enough, as a perfectionist, I see crap everywhere. Certainly NOT because of the programmers, but rather the lack of solid 'systems' oriented education. Here's a great example: is there any education teaching the students how long a technology will stand the test of time? Yes, there still are needs for Cobol (sarcasm), but had you known Cobol (Fortran, Pascal, etc) would reach end of life only 10 years after your degree, would you still have paid what you did to learn it? Much like an 'investment', they should teach you to research the company ot understand the longevity of a technology; things like standards committees, finances, demand, market saturation, security, required infrastructure, etc, before choosing a foundation to base your life on.
If this helps one student to make a more sound decision, I'll be very happy.
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Programming is now essentially a commodity, from which AI is making enormous strides. As a Comp Sci graduate with 40+ years of experience, I wouldn't recommend any student major in 'programming' unless it had direct correlation to AI/ML or 'security' programming. Otherwise you'll find yourself as a 'temp' the rest of your life. Oddly enough, as a perfectionist, I see crap everywhere. Certainly NOT because of the programmers, but rather the lack of solid 'systems' oriented education. Here's a great example: is there any education teaching the students how long a technology will stand the test of time? Yes, there still are needs for Cobol (sarcasm), but had you known Cobol (Fortran, Pascal, etc) would reach end of life only 10 years after your degree, would you still have paid what you did to learn it? Much like an 'investment', they should teach you to research the company ot understand the longevity of a technology; things like standards committees, finances, demand, market saturation, security, required infrastructure, etc, before choosing a foundation to base your life on.
If this helps one student to make a more sound decision, I'll be very happy.
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About what year was this? I can remember one history prof who fit this profile.
I was really good at essay tests becaue I was good at highlighting what I knew and avoiding what I didn't. You couldn't do that with his tests because he would ask the question and then say make sure you cover a., b., c.,.... Sometime the letters went to m. or n. There was no hiding on his tests.
I am struggling to remember his name, but I think it started with an N.
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Also dropped 151 after completely bombing the midterm (also switched majors mid semester and didn't need it so I wanted to eliminate the stress of it). 150 was a piece of cake though. It was all online aside from the tests, which were in a computer lab rather than a testing center, so it was easy to "utilize your resources". Ended up with an A-.
