--- Julia Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jan Coffey wrote:
> >
> > --- Julia Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > And some degree plans, EE for one, had *no* foreign language
> > > requirements, probably because there were so many required courses that
> > > if you had to take, say, 13 hours (3 semesters) of a foreign language,
> > > there was no *way* you could get out of there in 8 semesters, not even
> > > theoretically. Interestingly enough, the gender ratio in EE was very
> > > skewed when I was there (I only knew 2 female EE students, out of
> > > probably 30 EE students, and one of them I met because she was the lab
> > > partner of one of the guys I'd known for awhile up to that point), and
> > > one could argue that the skills needed to be good at EE were *not* the
> > > sorts of skills needed for foreign language study, and from what you've
> > > written on this thread regarding gender/skills correlations, this
> > > wouldn't surprise you very much.
> >
> > Yea, I tried getting out of foring language at UT. For a year or so, they
> > were thinking to move CS back to Egeneering. I remember the day that Dr.
> > Fussel told me that wasn't happening. Ruined my schedule as I had to take
> 3
> > symestes of forign language. My wife got out of it by being a forigin
> > student. (that never seemed fair). We were both CS. She took all of the
> more
> > information type classes, and I took more theory. We make a good team.
>
> One question: How well did you do on that course that was taught by the
> linguistics professor? Did you pass the first time around, and if so,
> with what kind of a grade?
>
> I ask because I know a couple of people who struggled with some of the
> other classes, but passed that one with flying colors, which is contrary
> to the pattern of *most* of the CS students there at that time (late
> 1980s), and I'm a little curious as to which group you fall into. :)
Hall was his name and his class was one of the best. I passed it very easily.
Let's put it this way, my grade was excluded from the curv :)
... or was that the phylosophy 313k? No matter they were both about the same.
The only "CS" (or related) class that I really "strugled" with was one I took
from the AI prof, and that was just becouse he gave so many papers and graded
off for spelling errors.
Don't get me wrong they were all a lot of work, and they were all chalenging.
And I lost my 4.0 to Hamilton Richards, which class I do not remember. But I
was gratefull to him for what he taught me. I ended up with 2 Bs from him. I
think... But I kept taking his corses becouse he had more to teach, or a
better way of doing it. He really made you think.
*sigh* I miss Austin.
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