I recently received an email from an academic advisor at Clemson. While she meant to send the email out to a colleague about a listserv, she sent it to all of the people on the listserv.

While a normal person would realize that this email was a mistake, several people hit “Reply All” and unnecessarily sent a message questioning the email to everyone on the listserv.

One of my favorite responses was:
sorry, I dont understand what this is?

I’m not sure if the proper use of capitalization, apostrophes, and question marks is taught in Clemson, but I’m pretty sure that [name redacted for preservation of image] needs to take that class and not Drinking and Slutting 101. (I’m not quite sure if that’s a graduate class or not)

Anyway, next semester I will plan on resuming my Spanish classes for a minor in Spanish, along with my dual degree in Marketing and International Business Management.

On another note, I’m thinking about taking ACCT201 online at Trident Technical College over the summer so I will transfer into my junior year (technically my sophomore year) with that credit, rather than taking it at Clemson. It has been said that ACCT201 is the death of business majors, so since I don’t plan on my funeral anytime in the near future, this should be the safe option.

What do you think?

It went through a couple of revisions:

• I had SPAN201 MW, but upon looking at the list of Clemson minors, I realized that I could not minor in a SPANISH, but rather SPANISH-AMERICAN STUDIES. Frankly, I don’t care about learning the politics of hispanohablantes or economics of those nations.
• I added MTHSC309 TTh, but I received an email stating that I would be dropped because I didn’t have the prerequisite MTHSC207 (in which I’m currently enrolled).
• I added ECON310 TTh. This is a 300- level course, so it should prove interesting. Curiously, ECON212 (in which I’m currently enrolled) is a prerequisite, but it’s not strictly enforced.
• I had APEC205 TTh (which would satisfy my CCA and STS credit), but the teacher who was originally teaching the course dropped it for another teacher who received horrible reviews on www.ratemyprofessors.com… so I dropped it.
• I added MKT301, another 300- level course for my Management and Marketing double major.
• Sitting at 19 hours, I thought everything was dandy, but Matthew, Mark, and Rob encouraged me to look into a seminar class, CPSC481. After attending one T 7-8:30pm session, I was hooked. The class is structured around building computer programs to solve basic problems (like the linked loop list, a classic interview question). Needless to say, that’s been added to my schedule.
• I had Intro to Swing Dancing W (for a total of 20 hours), but I dropped it to preserve my sanity.

At this point, I thought that I had the perfect schedule. I would have 1 MW class at 2:30, horrible TTh (from 9:30pm-8:30pm), and Fridays off. On Wednesday, I showed up to 104 NEWMN at 2:25pm for my Marketing class to find an empty auditorium. After waiting 20 minutes for Professor Gaubert, I trekked over to the Marketing Department in Sirrine and they informed me that he was “out of the country”. Apparently he is teaching abroad in Belgium and his classes won’t start until March 8. So now I have no MWF classes until March 8, when I will have only 1 MW class and keep my free Fridays.

So that’s the story of the schedule. My MGT201 class is all online, so I’ll use Fridays to take care of the workload for that. It will definitely keep me busy!

Speaking of MGT201, I think that’s the only class I have to worry about right now. The tests (3/semester) are 85 questions to be completed in only 1 hour, so we’ll see how that goes…

Keep in mind that the 5:00-7:45T PM MGT is only 4 times the entire semester for tests, as with the 6:45-8:15W PM MTHSC. And don’t worry, I’ve checked Rate My Professor. XD

And I also have a test on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. I should probably study, but that’s a crazy amount of stuff to worry me while I’m having fun. I guess all good things have to come to an end.

Wish me luck!

Suppose:

6666 > 7111
1111 < 8809

9312 = 1
8193 = 3
8096 = 5
7777 = 0

Solve:

2581 = ?

I’m hoping Matthew, one of my good friends, will be able to give me an answer in less than 1 minute. It’s one of those problems that make you want to say “DOH!” after you have it solved because it’s just too easy. Any ideas? Leave them in the comments and I’ll let you know who wins!

I feel like I learn more from reading myself than listening to this teacher teach. Not only does he talk in circles (barely speaking English), but he contradicts himself, stops mid-sentence and changes the direction of conversation, and talks whimsically out of his ass. According to Professor Mason, Christians are suckers who vote Republican. In this sense, they are the true altruists and contrasted with Ayn Rand’s false dichotomous view of ethical egoism versus the opposing view of altruism.

Plain and simple, there is no easy answer to morality except to be immoral.

On the other hand, I don’t think I’ve ever considered this class (PHIL103-003/Ethics) mildly interesting in the first place. Furthermore, our teacher has never told his children that he loves them.