[Ipg-smz] What college class or major did you transfer out of?

[Dennisf63]

On 07/23/2019 06:45 PM, Phil Shapiro via Ipg-smz wrote:
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>   When I was in college, I transferred out of geology class after one 
> week.  After I heard the professor lecture about rocks for an hour,
> I knew the class was not for me.
>
>     Then, as a mechanical engineering student, I learned that all 
> third year engineering students were required to take accounting.
> The very thought of accounting class makes my brain hurt. So, I 
> transferred out of engineering and got a degree in liberal arts (majored
> in philosophy.) If I need an accountant, I'll hire one, thank you.
>
>         Just curious, what class or major did you transfer out of?
>
>                  phil
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> "Learning happens thru gentleness."
> "We must reinvent a future free of blinders so that we can choose from 
> real options."  David Suzuki
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>
 From Advanced Freshman Physics, at Princeton, and I have to tell this 
story:

Opening scene: TA (Teaching Assistant, not a Prof) at the front of the 
classroom, at left hand edge of the blackboard (this was before white 
boards) that stretches in panels across the entire front of the room. 
Starts writing abstruse mathematics, proceeding down first panel of the 
board as he explains (?) what he's doing, moving on to next panel, then 
the next.

Me: recent grad from a public high school, through some fluke high SATs 
in math, scribbling desperately trying to keep up so I can have some 
hope, back at my room, of figuring out what's going on.

30 minutes later: TA reaches lower right hand corner of the last 
blackboard panel, pauses, strokes his chin thoughtfully, "No, that's not 
right. I must have made a mistake." Surveys the arcane scribbles he's 
left behind.

"Well no, I must have made a mistake. I'll start over." Erases all his 
work and starts over.

Me: Heading for the exit, eventually switched my major to economics.

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Dennis Fowler
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