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BreweryYardRat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-29-05 04:12 PM
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I just finished my first day of college classes. Ask me anything.
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huskerlaw Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-29-05 04:12 PM
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1. What's your major?
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BreweryYardRat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-29-05 04:15 PM
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8. History.
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riderinthestorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-29-05 05:10 PM
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16. What kind of history?
Do you know what specialty you are going to pursue?

My daughter just had her first day of class at Indiana University today. She's majoring in archeology right now with plans on getting her PhD in medieval archeology (which means she's headed to England for her masters and doctorate in medieval history).

Modern European history major here - pre-Soviet Russia was my master's thesis topic.
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BreweryYardRat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-29-05 10:41 PM
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19. You don't get a specific sub-major...
Edited on Mon Aug-29-05 10:42 PM by seawolf
...but I'm probably going to go with medieval history, although I'm going to take the basics of Greek and Roman history this year.
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deadparrot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-29-05 10:55 PM
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21. I'm a freshman history major, too!
:hi:
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tjwmason Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-29-05 04:13 PM
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2. How did they go?
Sorry to be unoriginal.

Second question - how times have you got drunk since you arrived?
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BreweryYardRat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-29-05 04:14 PM
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6. Okay.
Edited on Mon Aug-29-05 04:18 PM by seawolf
I have some pretty cool teachers.

To answer your second question...0.
As to why:
A: I'm on meds. The most I can have is one drink.
B: I moved in Thursday, and wasn't in the mood to go party-hopping this past weekend.
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tjwmason Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-29-05 04:23 PM
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12. That's good and just too bad
(respectively).

The teachers are important, but (to my mind) more important is to teach yourself - read all around the subjects, talk about the ideas with clas-mates &c.&c.

We had a built in party-week before term began (officially called pre-sessional and designed so that classes could all be arranged, I think we all know what it was really about).
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BreweryYardRat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-29-05 04:14 PM
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7. dupe
Edited on Mon Aug-29-05 04:15 PM by seawolf
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phusion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-29-05 04:13 PM
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3. Did you get all your syllabi?
Those are essential. :)
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BreweryYardRat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-29-05 04:16 PM
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9. Not yet.
Ancient History I and College Algebra are tomorrow.
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bicentennial_baby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-29-05 04:26 PM
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13. Yay! I'm a College Algebra Tutor...
Have fun! :bounce:

We just had tutor training day...train the newbies day...what a joy :P
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DeposeTheBoyKing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-29-05 04:13 PM
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4. Which class is your favorite?
Who is most likely to be your favorite professor?
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BreweryYardRat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-29-05 04:17 PM
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10. I'll answer that tomorrow...
Haven't had all my classes for the week yet.
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bigwillq Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-29-05 04:13 PM
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5. Do you have any homework? (nt)
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BreweryYardRat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-29-05 04:17 PM
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11. Yes.
:(
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bigwillq Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-29-05 04:27 PM
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14. How many hours worth? (nt)
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BreweryYardRat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-29-05 04:52 PM
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15. Hmm...
Maybe 3 hours? It's actually not that much, just doing about 60 pages of re-reading, taking a little online quiz for English, and printing out the rest of my English syllabus.

The only reason it's going to take so long is that the author who wrote the book for my reading assignment has one of the dullest styles on the face of the planet.
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driver8 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-29-05 07:01 PM
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17. Any hot coeds in your classes??
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BreweryYardRat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-29-05 10:40 PM
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18. A few.
We need a "horny" emoticon.
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driver8 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-30-05 09:19 AM
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28. Man, when I was in college that was the first thing we checked out!
Then we would report to each other which girls were in which classes.

Ahhh...the good old days.
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OldLeftieLawyer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-29-05 10:43 PM
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20. Enjoy yourself
Believe it or not, you're just starting out on the best time of your life.

I wish you every success.
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alarcojon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-29-05 11:40 PM
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22. Why aren't you doing your homework
instead of wasting time in the DU Lounge?
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aePrime Donating Member (676 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-29-05 11:51 PM
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23. What alarcojon said
Don't get behind!

I almost feel sorry for my students. On the first day (last Monday) they got a lab that was due the next day. On Wednesday they got their first non-lab assignment.

Keep 'em busy.

Welcome to university.
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alarcojon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-29-05 11:52 PM
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24. Have we a fellow mathematician?
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aePrime Donating Member (676 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-29-05 11:57 PM
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25. Actually
Computer scientist, which is almost the same thing.

After I got my B.S.C.S I realized that I was only a couple of classes shy of my B.S. in math.
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alarcojon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-30-05 07:36 AM
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26. Close enough!
:toast:

I teach Discrete Math, including some graphs, trees, and networks, so I've come across my share of CS people.
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WCGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-30-05 08:10 AM
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27. Did you get any phone numbers......
you know, study partners, Nudge Nudge, wink wink....
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