'Serenity'
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.)
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!
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.
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.
Profoundly unsafe
They tell you not to eat it.
They tell you not to eat it.
But you still want to, don't you?