Comments on: Caffeinated Edumacation.

By: TJ

TJ — Tue, 01 Mar 2005 19:07:08 +0000

God forbid my professor ever Googles the name of her class!

We had to roll around and do drills of “Slash” “Dab” “Flick.” (To this day, I do one fine dab.)

Yep. Required for my double major in Drama.

Due to my lack of coordination, it was the hardest “B-” I ever earned.

By: gregor

gregor — Tue, 01 Mar 2005 18:26:08 +0000

We split the cost of five years at Drexel for our daughter with her. It’s paying off, though, she’s currently doing marine water quality research in Puerto Rico as part of her Master’s degree, while we sit here and write student loan payment checks out with frozen fingers…

oh, well.

By: Craig

Craig — Tue, 01 Mar 2005 14:02:55 +0000

And “they” say that the problem with the education system is that it doesn’t get enough money.

By: rita

rita — Tue, 01 Mar 2005 13:53:48 +0000

Michele, I had to take an “Intro to Computers” class which taught students how to use MSWord. Why? Because like any good lawyer, I only used WordPerfect. And I had to take an “Intro to Windows” class as well. Easy A’s, but a big waste of time & money.

Sadie, I like your dad. I told my kids the same thing. Character building, it was.

By: sadie

sadie — Tue, 01 Mar 2005 12:36:44 +0000

Damn, I wish I had a dad like you, Jim…my father said “Get your own freakin student loans. You’re an adult.”

My dad, the sentimentalist;-)

By: Michele

Michele — Tue, 01 Mar 2005 12:30:44 +0000

Oh yes, my daughter this term is taking “how to use a laptop”,,,,good gawd, this kid has been using a computer since she was 12!!

By: Sluggo

Sluggo — Tue, 01 Mar 2005 05:57:24 +0000

It’s a short drop from designer water to designer courses.

By: Shamrock

Shamrock — Tue, 01 Mar 2005 04:54:21 +0000

That is too funny, given what I wrote today about caffeine’s affect on me this morning. Can’t do it. But I did take a class in college that was something like “Influence of the 60′s Music on Politics of the Era.” Bizarre. How Sargeant Pepper influenced the Cold War and all that.

By: Dash

Dash — Tue, 01 Mar 2005 04:53:36 +0000

The times… they are a changin’. Excellent! I would have loved that class, but like you, I got to take physics and econ. Oh well… maybe in my next life I’ll be able to go learn at the Cafe.

By: zonker

zonker — Tue, 01 Mar 2005 03:52:52 +0000

No wonder we’re looking to be a third-world country.

I sure hope that the next time I’m in a coffeehouse…I mean an “incubator of public life”…that I don’t get bothered by students trying to “actively create critical discourse”. I just want my cuppa, my bearclaw and my high-speed wireless.