[rescue] Uni (Was: Beginner VAX)

[Ken Hansen]

My first (and only) semester at Stevens Institute of Technology was 21
credits - and they had this brilliant idea that since they wanted everyone
to study 3 semesters of chemistry, but they didn't have any spare time
slots, they would just make the first semester class a 6 credit class,
second semester it was 5. Oh, and we studied computer programming and
drafting in the same time slot - you alternated... One week you had FORTRAN,
the next you had drafting (w/pencils, this was 1983), then the next week you
had FORTRAN again, etc.

That hada program called the five-year program - you paid four years tuition
the first four years, the fifth year was room and board only, and your
coursework was spread out a bit.

You had 161 credits *required* to graduate, *no* electives till junior year,
and they had to relate to your major.

I don't miss that school very much...

about 75% of entering freshmen leave before graduation, and the graduating
class is half the size of the freshman class (half of them are transfer
students)...

ken

----- Original Message -----
From: "joshua d boyd" <jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Friday, July 27, 2001 11:26 AM
Subject: Re: [rescue] Uni (Was: Beginner VAX)


> On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 11:11:08AM -0400, sambo at charm.net wrote:
> > joshua d boyd wrote:
> >
> > > Now, if are willing to go to school part time, paying for it isn't
that
> > > hard.
> >
> > Yeah. I wasn't willing to go part time. In fact I wanted out so badly, I
> > got special permission to take a frighteningly heavy courseload (maxed
> > at 26 credits per quarter; there wasn't enough time in the day to do any
> > more or I would have).



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