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| Tweet Topic Started: Jun 9 2006, 01:17 PM (890 Views) | |
| Rick Zimmer | Jun 9 2006, 08:16 PM Post #51 |
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Fulla-Carp
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I teach urban and regional planning; but believe it or not, I have never taken a class in the field. My Bachelor's Degree is in political science and my Masters is in public administration. What I have, though, is 30+ years working with cities, counties, school districts, redevelopment agencies, the state, the Feds, private developers and a host of professionals in many disciplines in planning, economic development, redevelopment and community development. And, while most full time professors teach and do research, I teach and continue to practice my consulting. It give me a very practical perspective to pass on to the students -- but not a real academic one -- which is one of the reason I am not tenured and likely never will be. |
| [size=4]Violence is incompatible with the nature of God and the nature of the soul -- Benedict XVI[/size] | |
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| ivorythumper | Jun 9 2006, 08:18 PM Post #52 |
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
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Interesting question, Rick. Clients come to me because they see my projects, understand my principles and method from my publications and want the sort of buildings that I design. So I am not in the situation of giving them "what I want to give them" vs "what they want"-- at least not that divergently. At times I have to make significant concessions, but I see architecture as a service industry. it's about the clients and their true needs, not only mine. So we usually arrive at some accommodation of each other's expectations. Architects such as Gehry or Eisenman get away with a lot, because every city to have "arrived" has to have signature architecture -- sort of the Bilbao phenomenon. There are a dozen or so starchitects (Botta, Meier, Libeskind, Ando, Holl, Venturi, Graves, Rogers, Starck, Calatrava, Pei, Herzog and de Meuron, Koolhaas, Foster, a few others) who can do virtually what they want and impose anything on a city (many of these sorts of projects are publicly funded museums or university buildings or federal courthouses or such). And many private clients will take what is given provided they can have that name brand architect for their building. Of course, the starchitect does the client interaction with the mucky mucks ("star f*cking"), scribbles a few lines on the bumwad with his Mont Blanc, and the associate partners and the slaves in the back room get to fill in the blanks. Would that I were able to do that -- I could spend even more time in TNCR. :lol: |
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| Shammy | Jun 9 2006, 08:33 PM Post #53 |
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Middle Aged Carp
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Texas... well... that says it all... Texas gave us Jeb and George. They are Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobics. |
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| LWpianistin | Jun 9 2006, 08:39 PM Post #54 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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i know what that stupid word REALLY means, but it looks like it should mean something about being afraid of horses, monsters, and equipment...
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| garrett | Jun 9 2006, 09:42 PM Post #55 |
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I'm going to make the assumption that you are taking ENGL 1301. If this is the case, then don't worry about it. Appease the professor. The class is basically designed to "weed out" students who are completely inept (as are most freshman level courses) or refuse to follow directions. Since you've already been accepted to a University of your liking, you don't need to expend any extra energy to impress anyone (it's not as if you're trying to get a letter of reccomendation out of the prof.). That said, you should still shoot for an A in the class (but this should come fairly easy). On a side note, I remember my history teacher when I was at a CC. I took every course she taught because we weren't required to buy a textbook (and money was tight at the time). We did however have to go to class every day (which I don't mind). She would sit on a wooden stool through the entire lecture talking "at a hundred MPH" while we would attempt to take notes and pay attention to everything she said. My hand would be in pain afterwards from the constant cramping that came from trying to keep up. I was a great class. |
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| Steve Miller | Jun 10 2006, 06:32 AM Post #56 |
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Bull-Carp
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You've already gotten great advice, but since you answered my question about your goal, I'll comment on your answer. If your goal is to raise the consciousness of your professor, then you should kick up a fuss about the way your paper was reviewed. I don't know why you would care about the consciousness of this particular prof, but you'll have to decide. If your goal is to get through the class with a good grade - as a stepping stone to something larger - they you'll do well to figure out what it takes to get the best grade and do exactly that. It really is that simple, and once you've figured out why you are doing it, some of the resentment goes away. You're beating the game. |
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Wag more Bark less | |
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| Jolly | Jun 10 2006, 06:44 AM Post #57 |
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Geaux Tigers!
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Stop the presses! Man bites dog! Or....Rick is absolutely right, and there is not a single word of his post I disagree with. |
| The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.- George Soros | |
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| Jolly | Jun 10 2006, 06:47 AM Post #58 |
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Geaux Tigers!
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On another note....CLEP'ing a course in one's major field does not usually count towards fulfilling your degree requirements...at least down here... Secondly....Texas just instituted some new regs on Texas history at the collegiate level...if you ain't stayin' in Texas, avoid the courses.... |
| The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.- George Soros | |
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| schindler | Jun 10 2006, 06:50 AM Post #59 |
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Fulla-Carp
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I started re-writing the paper last night. Actually, I started from scratch and wrote a completely straightfoward paper. And so far I have resisted all impulses to tweak it. If she doesn't have enough imagination to see past her nose, then I'll give her what she wants, and by golly, it'll still be the best paper in the class! |
| We're all mad here! | |
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| schindler | Jun 10 2006, 06:53 AM Post #60 |
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Fulla-Carp
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Thanks for the heads up. I'll look into it. . . What kinds of regulations? |
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| Jolly | Jun 10 2006, 06:56 AM Post #61 |
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Geaux Tigers!
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I'm not sure how many, but you have to take Texas history. I ran across that one while looking into some post-grad things for my son....apparently they are even requiring them for folks who possess a degree already....which I thought was a little strange.... |
| The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.- George Soros | |
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| schindler | Jun 10 2006, 06:59 AM Post #62 |
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Hmmm. . . I haven't heard anything like that. I'm taking US history. Texas hasn't even been mentioned yet. Maybe you have to take it if you're going to earn a degree in Texas. I'm just taking a few classes. |
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| DivaDeb | Jun 10 2006, 07:11 AM Post #63 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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CLEPing does not fulfill credit hour requirements, but it does fulfill prerequisites for classes one might prefer to take to fulfill their credit hour requirements. Instead of taking a pud course, you can take a second year class or one that is more specific in focus. At least that's the way it worked when I was in school. I found it very useful, in terms of getting the most out of the bucks I was spending on tuition. |
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| Matt G. | Jun 10 2006, 07:33 AM Post #64 |
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Just one quick note to add: If you are at the CC gettting transfer credits to fulfill some basic curriculum requirements at UotO, find out from UotO whether or not transfer credits and grades count towards your University GPA. (In many cases they don't). The rationale behind this is that all you really need to do is pass the classes and get the credits/prerequisites done and out of the way at the CC. Your CC GPA won't mean diddly. When I was in University, I did CC classes EVERY SUMMER (I even took one whole semester off) just to get some of those basic studies courses over with (and a lot cheaper, I might add), leaving me more free time to do things like practice when I was a music major. It was one of the best decisions I ever made. |
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| Jolly | Jun 10 2006, 07:34 AM Post #65 |
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Geaux Tigers!
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Ah....bring on the crips....if I could nuke an A in a course with minimal effort, it gave me more time to devote to something a bit more, er, challenging such as comparative vertebrate anatomy. When every 0.1 change on a GPA is a hill to die for, an A is a precious commodity.... |
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| Qaanaaq-Liaaq | Jun 12 2006, 06:42 AM Post #66 |
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Reread the assignment carefully and give the professor what he's asking for. As far as “dumbing down” what you’ve written: it was your student peers who suggested it, not the professor. And it’s the professor who’s going to grade it, not your student peers so I wouldn’t attach much importance to what they said. Your essay might be too cerebral for them because they just don’t care to put in the effort to connect the dots. Maybe they think the anecdotes are written from way out in left field somewhere and they’re puzzled as to how the ancedotes relate to the total picture. If you want, you could add something to bridge the anecdotes together and explain why they’re important to you. Everyone has experienced their share of sh!tty professors. Use the informal student network, that is your friends and acquaintances to find out who the best professors are in any department. A good professor will make a difference. |
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| Nina | Jun 12 2006, 06:54 AM Post #67 |
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Senior Carp
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Do whatever it takes to get out of those awful entry level survey courses as quickly as possible. Your college education won't start until you're in upper-division courses, where everyone who bought into the whole "dumbing down" theory flunked out and is gone. My 2c. |
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