TAN #197: We CAN be polite, TANk u very much! (Page 16)

Thanks Kate

I have a question for yuz that may know about school.  I have wondered this on several occasions.

Can you retake classes just for the fun of it in college?

Maybe if I was more specific.  I passed all of my engineering classes (obviously).  Could I just take a statics or soils or structural class again just for kicks?

What about getting a civil engineering degree AGAIN.  Possible?  (not that I would).

I'm just thinking if I wanted to get into more structural engineering, to retake some classes for refreshers.

Another odd observations.

Remember the days when sequels were sort of odd?  I remember when Rocky III came out, it was the joke of the late night talk shows and they would poke fun that there would be a rocky 8 or something...

Fast forward 20 years.

Fast and Furious 6, 7 rockies, 5 Final Destinations, 5-6 Saws, dozens of Friday the 13's and Freddies.

Seems if you DON'T put out 7-8 movies, you are doing it wrong.

Lincoln 8 - The Lincolnator?

Hi dear Gym!

We're almost never in here at the same time ... so yay. {MELON PRESS}

And hi-ness to the TAN-nesses.

Well and good afternoon to you too Jim!

In short I don't know, I am sure you could but you would not get credit for both itereations of the same class.

I don't know here either but most of what HW puts out is meh anyway so why not put out multiple versions of meh.

Good Morning Your Royal Hotness Yanti Doll, Treadmill Crusher, Taxi's Bane and Goddess of Gooey Deliciousness

Yeah, I'm thinking you could pay to take the class but your grade would be unofficial.  Observing.  Otherwise you could be upsetting the curve and all that.

You could always audit the course as well.

I am eating Gooey Deliciousness right now .....

and her name is Special K with milk and honey.

Poor substitute for you though!

Oh it sounds like another part of my dream. Oh wait, special K? NM

Yeah I know right?!?!?!  I was thinking poptarts!

Kate IS Special K.

Nice stalkaging of my procrastinating!

OH! Yep, right inline with the dream then.

You can procrastinate all you want.

Are we at lteast procratinating somewhere warm and comfy??

Well, it sounds warm to me.

Well if Yanti is there you know it must be comfy!

OK well then.  On a whim Friday I sent out 2 resumes and I now have 2 emails for phone interviews.  One of the phone interviews is tonight.

Those are pretty good stats right there!

Gah!  Just finisned grading.  If I highlighted the correct answers some would still get questions wrong.   I checked the  questions where most got it wrong but then I read the topic sentence of a paragraph under a heading that is a direct quote of the answer and one of the key learning outcomes of the chapter. 

 ie.: textbook: North American Mamals, question: what is the main subject of your text book? 

I went back for a late life PhD.  So I took the classes for credit.  None that I took were very close to anything I had ever taken before, but I had a lifetime of lab and development experience that was applicable.  A few professors said they did not consider my grade with the other students.  

Doing it for fun would be expensive.  I got the tuition waived since I was working as a research assistant. If I had paid normal tuition, it would have been $1500 per semester hour.

Go for the master's or the PhD if you are really looking for a mental challenge.  I found the classes fun and easy.  The dissertation was as hard as I chose to make it.  I am an idiot about stuff like that so it nearly killed me.

TW

This is what I was thinking, no WAY would I pay college rates without going for a degree.  Find seminars and workshops to attend, then generally your employer will pay them!  I like doing that!