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Have you ever seen just what that is? The thesis required is very similar to a high school twenty page paper and the topics are just based on education BS.

Ahhh. Memories....

I attended a prestigious Engineering University. I had 2 roomates my senior year. All of us were in engineering/technology programs. We had girlfriends (two of us anyway). One was in hotel management. The other was in communications. Listening to their "stresses" about their class work became the subject of much ribbing in our apartement. We accepted their challenge to complete all of their homework for one day without having attended a single class. I took on the communications load and one "Jim" took on hotel management. I finished in 35 minutes. He finished in 65 minutes becuase he had to do some research about weather patterns to finish.

Thermodynamics anyone?

Georgia Tech 1965-67 (decided to go play in sunny Southeast Asia)

I had to average 21 hours per quarter in order to graduate in 4 years.

Easiest courses? English, PE & some civics class that was teaching about poverty (Michael Harrington’s “The Other America”). In that class I learned that I grew up “below the poverty line” (what’s a poverty line?). Gee, all my life I thought that we were middle class!

Nowadays, kids talk about 12 hours being a Full Load.

If you want to improve schools, every year replace 10% of the Education Majorss with people who have 10 years real world work experience, with 10% of the replacements having real work experience OVERSEAS.

And make Mike Rowe (”Dirty Jobs”) Sec of Education, tasked with teaching America to WORK and with reducing the DOE budget by 25% per year. Final long term budget at 10% current level.

BTW, in another recent post I read that Ga Tech had the best Return on Investment (of your college costs) at 11%. A couple of other schools also had 11%.

I thought thermodynamics was tough until I took electromagnetic field theory. To be fair there are high school science and math teachers who took thermodynamics and electromagnetic field theory in college. However they are paid the same as the gym teacher. That’s unions for you.

We accepted their challenge to complete all of their homework for one day without having attended a single class. I took on the communications load and one "Jim" took on hotel management. I finished in 35 minutes. He finished in 65 minutes becuase he had to do some research about weather patterns to finish.

Awesome!

But I this song (warning, slightly risque music video link here) was a staple in your playlist after that.