Am I Crazy?

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Heh, I did use vinegar and baking soda... along with compressed air, solenoid valves, a pneumatic cylinder, and a homemade fog machine. If I'd had an old PLC I could have automated the whole thing instead of hitting switches for each stage of eruption.

Still, I got a standing ovation, so I guess it was okay...

Seriously, it was a hoot to design and build. It was like my old career doing automation, only fun!



Yeah, the teacher has a lot to do with it. At it's most basic, history is the story of how we got here and why the world is the way it is... It's already interesting. It just needs to be presented properly.

I'd think a class on white-collar crime would be pretty interesting too.

I remember when I took macroeconomics, the first thing the professor said was, "There are no moral considerations in economics." It seems to me that modern business has a culture that encourages crime...


Yeah, ability limits and time are factors for me too. My school offers a BA in Physics geared toward educators. I'm going to talk to an adviser about what it might cost me in credits and time to switch...

It might not be practical to change majors at this point, but it would be fun to coach a high school robotics team.

Of course, it would be fun to teach western civ at a sleepy little junior college near a beach too!

Well-said.



That came up several times throughout the class.

Nice quotation. Think it would be okay if I used it in future versions of the course?

Sure, and I'm sure whoever I stole it from won't mind either!

Thanks!

Not crazy at all, if you can pass the class without attending it leaves time to actually learn something useful. I skip about half my classes right now which leaves about 6 days of expendable time.

I agree with your feeling about not being challenged in class, BUT there are so many BS classes in college you are forced to take that I don't mind getting the rare "easy A."

I voted for deathclaws.

So, I took the class with a different instructor and got a slightly more meaningful A this time...

This class was not great, but quite a bit better than the last one!

We had some interesting lectures (the series on religion was very good), a bit of reading and 5 short (2-3 page) response papers... I learned a little bit at any rate.

All-in-all I'm just glad to put the whole mess behind me...

Congratulations--both on the A and on being done with this whole thing.