College really only matters for your internship and 1st job. The better schools have betters ins with employers for internships. When you graduate and are looking for that entry level job, graduates of the better schools are more likely to get the job over the glorified HS's like a WMU or WVU. However, ambitious graduates from those schools can obviously still find good jobs and become very successful. Once you are just a few years post-grad, the college you attended is basically meaningless.
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Only MAC home and homes I would schedule would be Akron, Kent State and maybe Ohio.
Make the road game a short trip for Pitt fans to take over the stadium. Pro Pitt crowd at Akron in 2015 before the downpour.
Make the road game a short trip for Pitt fans to take over the stadium. Pro Pitt crowd at Akron in 2015 before the downpour.
I’d have had 300 different majors if I dropped a class and changed my major rather than coming into it late 😄
Read The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould.
Oh I wasn't a stranger to being late at all. But this was the first day of class, and I was like 45 minutes late.
Or you can just have basic common sense. The average Harvard student is more intelligent than the average Slippery Rock student.
This NIH paper seems to agree that SAT is a good measure of intelligence. Not a perfect measure. But they are correlated.
What We Know, Are Still Getting Wrong, and Have Yet to Learn about the Relationships among the SAT, Intelligence and Achievement - PMC
Fifteen years ago, Frey and Detterman established that the SAT (and later, with Koenig, the ACT) was substantially correlated with measures of general cognitive ability and could be used as a proxy measure for intelligence (Frey and Detterman, 2004; ...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Just put me on ignore. You are obsessed with me. Its unhealthy.
Ok I can see that. I likewise was no stranger to dropping classes. I dropped a calc class because, during the first and second days, the instructor demonstrated a peculiar habit where he frequently paused in his lecture, took out a handkerchief, blew his nose, and kid you not, then wiped the entire open hanky completely over his face and head, and then resumed. He did this at least 5-6 times in class on the initial day, almost like someone else might pause for a sip of water. It was honestly nauseating. But that was a core class for my major, and other sessions when it was offered were not as convenient. So I gave it another day. And he repeated the same cycle during day 2. 5 of us spontaneously rose up and stumbled out mid class (it was held in a smaller CoL classroom so it caused fair amount of ruckus), hustled directly over to Thackary, and changed classes. Judge me how you will.
There are other instructors horror stories though none quite on that bio hazard level. There was the comp sci professor from Poland who spoke not one single word of English, and I mean it, not a word. The other CS prof who wore dark glasses and a trench coat during class, and got deported mid term, leaving a woefully inadequate TA to finish teaching the term. Another prof who walked over and kicked the shin of one of the students (no, not me) because he had fallen asleep during lecture. A 100 level math instructor who taught in bare feet, though that’s a generous term, as his “teaching” consisted on wordlessly filling an entire chalkboard with formulas, for at least 40 minutes straight, finally turning to the class and gesturing at the board, basically as if to say, there y’go, good luck… and then left silently.
Probably the worst, however, was a Boolean algebra instructor who required us to buy his book for the class. Not so strange there, but in this case the “book” was a collection of loose leaf papers that he had his wife type up (with a real typewriter…this was ‘back in the day’) which he got copied at kinkos and bound together in a cheap plastic cover, which cracked immediately, so papers frequently flew out or got mangled in the backpack And he made us pay for it … $40 (this in 1985 money)… cash only … paid directly to him …RIGHT IN THE CLASSROOM, because he boasted he wasn’t willing to go through those “crooks” in the Pitt bookstore. On top of that, his wife was a terrible typist, so the ‘book’ had dozens if not hundreds of typos, including in the homework sections. Umpteen times I couldn’t figure out the homework problem, beating my head against the desk for hours, deep into the night, only to learn in the following class that the problem had typos. Ended up networking with other students, and if at least three of us couldn’t figure out a problem by like 11:00 the evening before the class, we determined it likely had a typo and gave up.
Yeah I stuck out for all THOSE classes, and finished those terms, but the hanky-panky prof was a deal breaker.
I mean, if you look at the US News rankings, WMU is down around 245. It's not exactly and elite academic school by any measure.
Since you won't read the book, let me at least say part of what Gould was getting at: “I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”Or you can just have basic common sense. The average Harvard student is more intelligent than the average Slippery Rock student.
This NIH paper seems to agree that SAT is a good measure of intelligence. Not a perfect measure. But they are correlated.
What We Know, Are Still Getting Wrong, and Have Yet to Learn about the Relationships among the SAT, Intelligence and Achievement - PMC
Fifteen years ago, Frey and Detterman established that the SAT (and later, with Koenig, the ACT) was substantially correlated with measures of general cognitive ability and could be used as a proxy measure for intelligence (Frey and Detterman, 2004; ...
Of course there are geniuses working in Asian sweatshops or at a Wal-Mart in Appalachia but now you are bringing up the family/socioeconomic dynamic. Its hard, but not impossible to move up the socioeconomic chain.
I'm talking pure SAT scores. Harvard students are more intelligent than Western Michigan students. I realize some of you don't believe that but I assure you its true.
Jimmy Jackson the basketball player did go to Ohio State. Michigan had a hoopster named Ray Jackson, but I can't remember where he was from.
Just when I think you couldn't possibly be a bigger dumbass, you go and totally redeem yourself.
Kudos. Quite the badge of honor you wear.
I still have a reoccurring dream that I can't find my last class. It's the final class I need to graduate, and I can't find the classroom.
Not only that, but I can't find anyone to help me.
Nothing like that ever happened when I was in college, but every other once in a while, I have that stupid dream, and I wake up thinking I'm never going to graduate.
I have a recurring dream that I have a Final but didn't realize I had the class the whole semester
Honest to god, I have something very similar. It's like every few months.
Some organizations only recruit at larger campuses. So your chances are probably lower at a school like Clarion or elsewhere unless you have a specialty kind of degree. IUP has a great Safety program so they get recruited.
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I've had that one for years (or some variation of it).
Narduzzi made a not so subtle point to ADs at Pitt. Do not schedule away games with non P5 foes.
I attended my last class and didn’t know it. Rarely did I miss class, but in my last semester I only had 1. It was a night class and I filled in for someone who couldn’t make it to work. The credit was in the bag and I needed the cash.
Saw a friend in that class who told me the news: if you were a graduating senior and happy with your grade you could mail it in.
Dropped a note in the profs mailbox and didn’t look back.
Very poor scheduling choice for a number of reasons. Look at Michigan State’s schedule. They don’t play away games at directional Michigan schools, or any school like that….
Neither should we….. Especially Western Michigan. There isn’t even proper accommodations for the team to stay in that town. They bused in from Grand Rapids an hour away. Whoever scheduled that game didn’t think it through.
Or maybe they did think it through and they were stupid.
I say open the season next year at Hawaii
Or maybe they did think it through and they realized that Pitt couldn't afford to pay the going rate for only home games against non-P5s like some other schools do, because our attendance isn't nearly as high as theirs and our donations aren't nearly as high as theirs.
I use very very little of what I went to school for in my current job and I think it's that way for most people, the education get you in the door that's really about it in most professions
Actually, Pittsburgh is a good place for a vacation. The inclines, zoo, aviary, Carnegie Museum, Phipps Conservatory, Cathedral of Learning, Falling Rock, Station Square, Gateway Clipper, Kennywood, sporting events, et al.
People on vacation can find a lot to do in Pittsburgh.
Yeah, so stick that up your Kalamazoo, Stimulus Progression.
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