Last Person #5

[AngryHobbit]

I liked Philosophy in college, but sadly, it could not be used as math credits at any of the schools I went to....

I didn't come to fully appreciate philosophy until I seriously got into translating late 18th - early 19th century Russian literature. I suddenly realized it was the most amazing collection of these old-fashioned gentlemen of writing, who just happened to be great gossips and equally great philosophers - like Proust and Voltaire, with Russian verboseness thrown in for good measure.

 

[Xue Sheng]

How do you get math credits by taking philosophy? I nailed social psychology by applying there what I learned in statistics classes, but I didn't know you could go the other way around - getting through your math by taking philosophy.

Good question, but I will say a General Philosophy course that I took, while I was in math, I always thought of as Mathematics lite

 

[AngryHobbit]

My oldest is a Mechanical Engineering major. He started as a math major, then went to Applied Math, took a bit of a side road to Economics for a bit and then...Mechanical engineering and trying to maintain an Ecology minor

That is awesome! Best of luck to him!

Mechanical engineering is one of the most dropped-out of majors during freshman and sophomore years. It's tough.

Do they still have the silent wars between majors? Like... engineers consider math majors a bunch of stuck-up sissies, and math majors consider engineers a bunch of dirty rubes. Mechanical engineers sneer at manufacturing engineers for being afraid to get their hands dirty. Electrical engineers sneer at mechanical engineers for failure to understand the delicacy of electrical design. And industrial engineers sneer at them all because they know they picked a major big bosses come from.

 

[Xue Sheng]

That is awesome! Best of luck to him!

Mechanical engineering is one of the most dropped-out of majors during freshman and sophomore years. It's tough.

Do they still have the silent wars between majors? Like... engineers consider math majors a bunch of stuck-up sissies, and math majors consider engineers a bunch of dirty rubes. Mechanical engineers sneer at manufacturing engineers for being afraid to get their hands dirty. Electrical engineers sneer at mechanical engineers for failure to understand the delicacy of electrical design. And industrial engineers sneer at them all because they know they picked a major big bosses come from.

He is in his junior year... as far as wars, I never hear about it. the only battle I know that is going on at the moment is in a Fluid Mechanics class where there is a group project that decides the grade for the semester. 4 people per group and in his group 2 never show up and 1 shows up 75% of the time which leave the loins share of the work for him...so far he is doing most of not all of it. Other than that I hear nothing against any other major

To be honest, going in, I expected him to end up a performance/acting major since he loved to be on stage in high school....he was even talking about joining the acting clubs in college, as a math major...but he never went to acting and left math...

 

[Steve]

How do you get math credits by taking philosophy? I nailed social psychology by applying there what I learned in statistics classes, but I didn't know you could go the other way around - getting through your math by taking philosophy.

Logic classes counted as math . Not all philosophy did.

 

[AngryHobbit]

He is in his junior year... as far as wars, I never hear about it. the only battle I know that is going on at the moment is in a Fluid Mechanics class where there is a group project that decides the grade for the semester. 4 people per group and in his group 2 never show up and 1 shows up 75% of the time which leave the loins share of the work for him...so far he is doing most of not all of it. Other than that I hear nothing against any other major

You gotta be careful with those loins and fluids.

The major wars at RIT were not really serious - more of a way to survive the stress.

To be honest, going in, I expected him to end up a performance/acting major since he loved to be on stage in high school....he was even talking about joining the acting clubs in college, as a math major...but he never went to acting and left math...

Hey, he can always do both. Borodin was a composer and a chemist. Chekhov was a playwright and a doctor. No problem!

 

[AngryHobbit]

Logic classes counted as math . Not all philosophy did.

Ah! If all Snuffles are Sniffles, and some Sniffles are Snuffs, does that mean all Snuffles are Snuffs? (That's what all logic problems in all the standardized tests look like to me.)

 

[Xue Sheng]

You gotta be careful with those loins and fluids.

The major wars at RIT were not really serious - more of a way to survive the stress.

He is not far from RIT actually

Hey, he can always do both. Borodin was a composer and a chemist. Chekhov was a playwright and a doctor. No problem!

Yeah, but they didn't have a Chinese mother.....In a few year I invision great pitched battles in my home...the youngest is incredibly musical...plays piano, viola and violin; Tchaikovsky, Chopin, Haydn, Shostakovich, Bach, Mozart, etc. took 2nd in a Russian piano competition playing Shostakovich.....a music major is not a Chinese thing either.

 

[Steve]

Ah! If all Snuffles are Sniffles, and some Sniffles are Snuffs, does that mean all Snuffles are Snuffs? (That's what all logic problems in all the standardized tests look like to me.)

Yeah. Like that, but more Latin.

 

[Steve]

He is in his junior year... as far as wars, I never hear about it. the only battle I know that is going on at the moment is in a Fluid Mechanics class where there is a group project that decides the grade for the semester. 4 people per group and in his group 2 never show up and 1 shows up 75% of the time which leave the loins share of the work for him...so far he is doing most of not all of it. Other than that I hear nothing against any other major

To be honest, going in, I expected him to end up a performance/acting major since he loved to be on stage in high school....he was even talking about joining the acting clubs in college, as a math major...but he never went to acting and left math...

I think they might not show up because your son's doing the loins share. Maybe if he kept his loins out of it, he'd get some help.

 

[Xue Sheng]

I think they might not show up because your son's doing the loins share. Maybe if he kept his loins out of it, he'd get some help.

He tried that...all it did was get the work behind...so... he works on

 

[granfire]

and there I am having the mundaine question why powershell.exe popped up as virus today.....

 

[AngryHobbit]

He is not far from RIT actually[/QUOTE]

Whereabouts?

Yeah, but they didn't have a Chinese mother.....

Borodin and Chekhov? No, not that I know of?

In a few year I invision great pitched battles in my home...the youngest is incredibly musical...plays piano, viola and violin; Tchaikovsky, Chopin, Haydn, Shostakovich, Bach, Mozart, etc. took 2nd in a Russian piano competition playing Shostakovich.....a music major is not a Chinese thing either.

Hey, it doesn't really matter if it's a thing or not - if someone is a great musician, keeping him from continuing to be a great musician is unfair... to him or to the rest of humanity.

 

[AngryHobbit]

and there I am having the mundaine question why powershell.exe popped up as virus today.....

Spring flu perhaps?

 

[Steve]

He tried that...all it did was get the work behind...so... he works on

Err.. loin... lion... I was making a joke about the typo in your post. Sigh. I thought it was funny.

Well, to give a more serious response, that’s the old 80/20 rule at work. In any group project, there are always going to be some who don’t pull their weight.

 

[AngryHobbit]

Err.. loin... lion... I was making a joke about the typo in your post. Sigh. I thought it was funny.

Well, to give a more serious response, that’s the old 80/20 rule at work. In any group project, there are always going to be some who don’t pull their weight.

You are not alone, I made the same joke too.... and it was wasted. Sad.

 

[Xue Sheng]

Err.. loin... lion... I was making a joke about the typo in your post. Sigh. I thought it was funny.

Well, to give a more serious response, that’s the old 80/20 rule at work. In any group project, there are always going to be some who don’t pull their weight.

Sorry, I have been dealing with an off and on (more on the off) headache all day and I am a bit slow on the uptake.... I see it now....but apparently I needed help

 

[Steve]

Sorry, I have been dealing with an off and on (more on the off) headache all day and I am a bit slow on the uptake.... I see it now....but apparently I needed help

It's all good. Headaches are the worst.

 

[Steve]

Mmm . Indian food for dinner. Pakooras, lamb jalfreezi and shrimp saag .

 

[AngryHobbit]

Sorry, I have been dealing with an off and on (more on the off) headache all day and I am a bit slow on the uptake.... I see it now....but apparently I needed help

Wish I could help. I am very good at massaging headaches out of people's necks and heads - the stress-related ones.