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MotF Bane said:
I'm pretty sure I've avoided ever naming this school, but if Purdue has put even one man on the moon, I think it has this school beat.

He never said it to students, just to other faculty, because he was at least smart enough to realize it wouldn't go over well.
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Purdue has something like 10 of the first 13 astronauts or something like that, including Neil Armstrong. It was literally Astronaut U in the 50s/60s. This is a Who's Who of famous people:

http://www.purdue.edu/space/astronauts.html

I know which school you're referring to -- you said you work there and it is on your Facebook. 😀
 
IndyColtsFan said:
Purdue has something like 10 of the first 13 astronauts or something like that, including Neil Armstrong. It was literally Astronaut U in the 50s/60s. This is a Who's Who of famous people:

http://www.purdue.edu/space/astronauts.html

I know which school you're referring to -- you said you work there and it is on your Facebook. 😀
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10 of 13, yeah, LOL, that's a serious stance of dominance.

Damn, I thought I'd avoided saying it here. But yeah, my FB would betray that. 😀
 
I'll keep looking for ways to cut back to 5.5 or even 5 years. But I don't think there's any method left, not with Circuits I and II being denied now, and Electronics I and II not available in summer.
 
Because I find six years to be totally unacceptable, and extremely depressing. Most people my age will be done next May. Even the slower ones will be finished May of 2013, five years total. SIX?
 
MotF Bane said:
Because I find six years to be totally unacceptable, and extremely depressing. Most people my age will be done next May. Even the slower ones will be finished May of 2013, five years total. SIX?
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Meh. Shit happens. People change majors midway through and take 6 years. My cousin took 8 years (IIRC) to get hers in education (WTF?!?!). She worked most of the time, but still -- education is one of the easiest majors out there.
 
IndyColtsFan said:
Meh. Shit happens. People change majors midway through and take 6 years. My cousin took 8 years (IIRC) to get hers in education (WTF?!?!). She worked most of the time, but still -- education is one of the easiest majors out there.
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Eight for education, whoa.

I had just come to terms with five, I could live with it after having transferred schools and then fucked around for two more years. But six is really depressing. Everyone I graduated with is going to be done except for those in graduate school. Sure, most of them are doing various liberal arts or business programs, but that's not much of a consolation prize. I'll be 24 when I graduate. 24, having never lived anywhere else, never held a real job. How does one spell "failure"? S-t-e-p-h-e-n...

And then if I want to consider graduate school myself, that just adds more and more time (and debt).

🙁
 
MotF Bane said:
Eight for education, whoa.

I had just come to terms with five, I could live with it after having transferred schools and then fucked around for two more years. But six is really depressing. Everyone I graduated with is going to be done except for those in graduate school. Sure, most of them are doing various liberal arts or business programs, but that's not much of a consolation prize. I'll be 24 when I graduate. 24, having never lived anywhere else, never held a real job. How does one spell "failure"? S-t-e-p-h-e-n...

And then if I want to consider graduate school myself, that just adds more and more time (and debt).

🙁
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That is hardly a failure. You'll be fine and it may take that long for the economy to be back to normal at this rate.
 
And yes, I remember what you've said - get a company to pay for graduate school. That's all well and good, as long as you a) have a company that is willing to do that, and b) unless you may want to consider a career in academia, land of the greatest benefits imaginable.
 
MotF Bane said:
And yes, I remember what you've said - get a company to pay for graduate school. That's all well and good, as long as you a) have a company that is willing to do that, and b) unless you may want to consider a career in academia, land of the greatest benefits imaginable.
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Most companies will offer some sort of tuition reimbusement.

And b) is why I am reluctant to leave here.
 
IndyColtsFan said:
Most companies will offer some sort of tuition reimbusement.

And b) is why I am reluctant to leave here.
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Well, as an extension to a, to have a company at all, i.e. get a job in the first place.

I don't get the benefits myself where I work, but I see them up close, and it's spectacular. As summarized by a graduate student -

"******* has tenure now. Who knows when we'll ever see him again?"
 
The tenured faculty can't be fired, they have a job for life in exchange for just a little teaching, health care and retirement plans tend to be spectacular. The pay isn't all that bad, especially for the benefits and the low workloads.
 
Still no response from the Dean or from the Registrar's Office. Kinda need those answers to figure out what I'm signing up for this summer instead.

To whit, if the RO says substitution from out of school is fine, I need to sign up for a Calculus II section here, and drop the Calculus III, by Tuesday.
 
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