Timelies all!
Am sitting here eating the M&Ms I got as a favor at the rehearsal dinner.(They have the bride & groom's names on them- ok, shortened versions of the names)
Spike: At least give me Wesley's office since he's gone. Angel: He's not gone. He's on a leave of absence. Spike: Yeah, right. Boo-hoo. Thought he killed his bloody father. Try staking your mother when she's coming on to you! Harmony: Well…that explains a lot.
'Destiny'
Natter 54: Right here, dammit.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Sheryl - Oct 10, 2007 2:59:40 pm PDT #6023 of 10001
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Sue - Oct 10, 2007 3:01:13 pm PDT #6024 of 10001
hip deep in pie
When I got my transcript a few years ago, there were classes I would have sworn I'd never taken.
Oh, that totally happened to me. History of Philosphy? Seriously?
Then there's the summer course I took on the French Revolution. I spent three hours every day for three weeks frantically writing pages notes while our prof. lectured at quite a clip. Then I vomitted everything back in one midterm and one exam. What do I remember? Soemthign about meeting on a tennis court... I think I retained more from watching a production of Marat/Sade.
Glamcookie - Oct 10, 2007 3:06:09 pm PDT #6025 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
My niece is going to be Cinderella [link] for Halloween and I'm thinking of sending a costume for my nephew. What could be be that would coordinate?
A pumpkin?
Eeee! With wheels on the side, so that he's her carriage!
What a great idea! Alas, he will be Cinderella's monkey friend instead.
sarameg - Oct 10, 2007 3:08:42 pm PDT #6026 of 10001
Astronomy, that class was an offshoot of Basketball Physics (the physics class so easy even the basketball players could pass),
See, many THINK this when they sign up for Astro 110 at my dad's U. It is so much not the case. Basic algebra is required and all of the department members are kinda hardasses (and my dad is the cantankerous hardass.) Many of the students react as if it was an extreme injustice. Which just gets them heaped with scorn. I'm continually surprised that it still has the "easy" rep. (Though, um, I thought it was easy when I took it in high school. However, I was raised on the stuff, so I pretty much already knew the material.)
My mom was a horrible student her first 2 years. She took the "get plenty of sleep before a test" to heart. So much so that she replaced studying with sleep. Needless to say, she flunked a lot. Then she moved out with her sisters to help care for the twin nephews and learned some study skills.
Jessica - Oct 10, 2007 3:14:05 pm PDT #6027 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Basketball Physics (the physics class so easy even the basketball players could pass)
I think all universities have one class like that. I can't remember what the actual course was at NU because I never took it (being in the School of Speech and having no math requirement), but it was widely known among the CAS students as Math For Trees.
Jesse - Oct 10, 2007 3:15:53 pm PDT #6028 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I have to confess that it didn't occur to me that history would be an easy major, until I saw half of the football team there at graduation. (The dumber half. The smarter half were in business, sciences, whatever.)
Glamcookie - Oct 10, 2007 3:18:15 pm PDT #6029 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
My head is swimming with the research I did today for my Electronic Publishing class. However, I will share with you an undergrad experience I had just before I quit school for a year. I had a Shakespeare final, which I was completely unprepared for having done none of the reading and missing most of the classes. Bad bad bad. Here's where it gets worse. I was sitting on campus looking at some notes to try to cram for the final when a really cute guy I had my eye on for a while came up and started a conversation. He proceeded to ask me to dinner (my class was a night class). I was like sure (fuck it, right?) and as we walked off campus, I passed my Shakespeare professor. If only he knew I am now a grad student at UCLA! Hahahahahaha!
Sue - Oct 10, 2007 3:18:47 pm PDT #6030 of 10001
hip deep in pie
The two easy courses at our university were Geology 100, known as Rocks for Jocks, and a Sociology course on Deviance, which was nicknamed Nuts and Sluts.
sarameg - Oct 10, 2007 3:25:53 pm PDT #6031 of 10001
I'm sure there were some courses with an easy rep, but I didn't know about them. Easiest I took was American History, but again, because I'd had a more thorough version earlier. I mean, I took art history (the one I blew off) as an easy course, and had to write several papers that were actual work.
The physics department taught what was informally known as "Physics for people who hate it" that was actually a neat class. It was very hands-on and real world scenarios. It was pretty popular. I used to listen in when I was working in the lounge next door. Ocassionally, us majors would get roped into helping out. Usually holding some contraption in an awkward position and getting mocked.
It was a great department.
-t - Oct 10, 2007 3:35:17 pm PDT #6032 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Profoundly unsafe
They tell you not to eat it.