"Adam D. Ruppe" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > Oh crap, I did it again. Sorry for the useless > post, I clicked in the wrong place and it ended up > being the send button :( >
Don't you like having the "Send Message Before I'm Done Writing It" button? It's a pretty standard feature. I just made use of it myself talking to my brother the other day. > > It was cold and windy; upstate New York winter, and we > all had to wait outside for... I think twenty minutes or > so, maybe longer on short notice so we couldn't get properly > dressed to be outside. > Yea. Northern Ohio here, which probably isn't much better. Some of us suspected one of the problems may have been students who didn't know/care about dryer lint traps. > > (Actually, I liked high school, but meh.) > It was a living hell for me. I'm not going to get into it though: If you think I get all worked up about *college*...well, whew!!! > > 2) They transferred a lot of stupid classes from the > HS credits and the other school, including two English > credits. English 102 and 204 or something like that. > > But they did *not* count any of it toward English 101! > Oswego was willing to, but JCC wasn't. And, it was, of > course, required. > > What the hell. It's so arbitrary, and apparently changes > every other year. > Yea, that doesn't surprise me. From what I've seen (this literally is from direct personal "in the same room" observation), a big part of credit transfer really amounts to a judgment call on the part of your assigned student counselor. Although to be fair, I'm not sure how else they could do it: There's so many colleges people could be transerring in from, and there isn't much standardization on classes/curriculum (which may actually be one of the *good* things about college vs high school). > > Ah, yes, the sunk cost fallacy. (I learned that term on the > Internet, btw. The college philosophy and logic classes > were pretty poor.) > I genuinely believe logic should be a standard required class in high school. It's a shame that it's not. >> Talk about narcissism. > > They make you well rounded! Argh! I had manged to totally forget about that line until now! ;) I can't even begin to count how many times I got the "well-rounded" speech, especially in HS (I was very narrowly-focused on computers until sometime in college. Still don't regret it though, it was the right thing for me at the time.) But I still like my old standard "well-rounded" response: "I'm 300lbs: I'm round enough already!!" (Ok, yea, that sounds really bad, but I'm tall too, so it's not *that* bad.)
