A cross-generational double-blind retrospective study...
by Cadderly18 on Feb 10, 2012 10:16 PM EST
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PrintI was reading through some of the comments on the 100 Thomas meme in the FanShots (reading the FanShots!?) and I noticed people were commenting about there experience at Penn State. After a fair bit of nostalgia:
Quickly drinking a Guinness out of my Phyrst mug
Leafing through my Zeno's passport
Throwing on my Poz jersey
Intricately planning out my tailgate for BOB's first game next season (It's gonna get wild folks)
Singing the alma mater and all our fight songs
Visualizing a run down Tussey Mountain (that didn't take long..)
Doing the PSU cowbell (fever cured btw)
Watching 30-40 different THON videos...
I finally got to wondering what type of demographic of Penn Staters and non-Penn Staters read this blog.
It was my unconscious personal assumption that most readers of this website were post-graduates because I didn't stumble upon this blog until after I graduated (Penn State 2010).
Almost 2 years removed now from the place I called home for 4, I'm living a pretty good distance away from State College, but I still always have that urge to go back. I come from a Penn State family, so it's cool to see different generations of my parents and relatives all sharing a lot of the same stories about the creamery, College Ave, Old Main, the HUB lawn, Beaver Stadium, East Halls, etc. This is one of the reasons, as many of you know, that Penn State is considered different by the Penn State faithful. It's that familiarity, that love for a home away from home, and having a family of Penn Staters wherever you go.
Before I get too emotional on you all, and having never done a poll in FanPosts, I thought I'd poll the readership and see what age groups we have here, and how many people have graduated from PSU. Feel free to post major and graduation date if you want to get specific. (I was Engineering 2010)
And for all you undergraduates, good luck catching the CATA Buses on time (especially if its the White Loop)...
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History
But at other college’s.
What period/aspect?
I was late medieval England as primary.
Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose - Janis Joplin
History '11 myself
Didn’t really “primary” in anything, and I’m not so sure that was really an option either. Focused mostly on American history, though I did take two 400-levels in Great Britain history though.
So, you're not really history then.
by Pentimental on Feb 11, 2012 10:29 AM EST up reply actions 5 recs
Interesting
What I’m really curious about is the ratio of lawyers to engineers here. The lawyers tend to be more prevalent posters so their population can be overestimated, but I’m guessing it’s closer to 50/50 than you’d think.
Anyway, the flashlights eat our human power grids, our souls if you will. So i destroyed them, and if a few precious panties were burnt or soiled in the reckoning then so be it
Engineer.
Automotive Structures. BSME 1997.
Unrepentant Joe Paterno Apologist®
by leeharvey418 on Feb 11, 2012 10:22 AM EST up reply actions
hey, Natural Science represent!
bah on your rhetoric or applications.
by The JuggerNitt on Feb 11, 2012 11:08 AM EST up reply actions
Engineering
’91 EET
’95 SDCET
God Bless you JoePa.
" When you cross that Blue Line, you are mine...Across the Blue Line, it's all football. " " And what you need to do in your life is paint Blue Lines everywhere. " - Joe Paterno 2009
by BlueWhiteLife on Feb 11, 2012 4:06 PM EST up reply actions
Fungineer
EE 2007…or 2008. Long story.
I'm on the Internet cause I'm an Internet thug.
#OccupyESPN
Follow @134Lounge
Engineer BS IE '92
"If there’s a villain in this tragedy. It lies in that investigation, not in Joe Paterno’s response to it," ~ Phil Knight
EE, Fall 2007
I’m sorry, but blanket statements are proven false 99% of the time, and if you make a blanket statement about college football, there’s a good chance that one exception will be Joe Paterno. - AdamShell @ BSD
Also; Always carry a bottle opener and the beer will provide itself.
Take that lawyers!
Looks like the engineers are more common than even I thought.
Also, I’m an EE, so add me to the list too.
Anyway, the flashlights eat our human power grids, our souls if you will. So i destroyed them, and if a few precious panties were burnt or soiled in the reckoning then so be it
by millzners on Feb 12, 2012 9:25 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
The lawyers just haven't started responding yet
You know, like when they are waiting for you—> “Time is of the essence”
If you are waiting for them, “Patience is a virtue”
Alea iacta est...
Finally, somebody gets it.
I need you to call about 10 clients and tell them to chill out. And I need you to call about five others and tell them to shits about to get real.
...may we compete with fierce intensity, with the gifts that we have been given...
They haven't responded
Beacuse they are already putting us on the clock, and just waiting awhile until they say something so their bill is nicly padded.
Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose - Janis Joplin
Exactly
billing break-down to 7min segments / have no idea why
God Bless you JoePa.
" When you cross that Blue Line, you are mine...Across the Blue Line, it's all football. " " And what you need to do in your life is paint Blue Lines everywhere. " - Joe Paterno 2009
by BlueWhiteLife on Feb 12, 2012 3:44 PM EST up reply actions
6 minutes
and it’s because you were tired of talking to us for ten minutes and getting a bill for a full quarter hour. Six minute billing is absolutely the #1 reason I left the law firm life, though there were approximately 622 other reasons.
"I just want everyone in this situation to man the fuck up and accept some of the responsibility." SwHA
by kijana's acl on Feb 12, 2012 9:16 PM EST up reply actions
I'm a lawyer but my PSU degree accuses me of being an electrical engineer. Suck it.
"Goodnight, Gorbachev"
I say and kiss my pillow
In my bed alone
interesting
In all honesty, I’ve considered pursuing that path as well. May I ask what field of law you ended up in? The only field I could find that fit was IP.
Anyway, the flashlights eat our human power grids, our souls if you will. So i destroyed them, and if a few precious panties were burnt or soiled in the reckoning then so be it
Sure. I write the patents.
Don’t go to law school.
"Goodnight, Gorbachev"
I say and kiss my pillow
In my bed alone
Denied.
It is denied that lawyers tend to be more prevalent posters so our population can be overestimated. By way of further denial, we hate math, but are not necessarily unskilled in its ways.
"Is that a shot at me? 'cause that makes me want to read it all the less."
Physics '08
I’m not an engineer, but a lot of the work I do actually probably qualifies as engineering, so I’ll gladly jump in this group
Whittle your whiskey around like blazes, t'underin' Jaysus, do ye think I'm dead?
by psuphysicist on Feb 12, 2012 3:41 PM EST up reply actions
So far...
my assumption has been pretty on-point about post-grads. I know the sample size is small.
And yea, I’d say it’s better if the lawyers comment more..I know they have a better grasp of English composition than I do…
'95 education, but at Bucknell
I did take some post-grad classes, mainly speech com, from ‘95-’98 while I taught in the area. My favorite was an athletic training course for coaches in the summer of ’95. The class was held in the stadium and we took a “field trip” over to the weight room and some of the guys were working out. (As a then 22 yr old woman, I greatly enjoyed that part of the class!!)
'98 Telecommunications
Used to be called Broadcast & Cable, but they changed it thankfully right before I graduated. My job has nothing to do with my major. My degree just got me in the door and I’ve been working my way up since.
If they ever tell my story let them say that I walked with giants. Men rise and fall like the winter wheat, but these names will never die. Let them say I lived in the time of Bradley, tamer of offenses. Let them say I lived in the time of Paterno.
Oh
and I worked full-time while I was there running the kitchen at night at the Allen Street Grill.
If they ever tell my story let them say that I walked with giants. Men rise and fall like the winter wheat, but these names will never die. Let them say I lived in the time of Bradley, tamer of offenses. Let them say I lived in the time of Paterno.
Dec '00 Admin J
and full time at the N. Atherton St Walmart, which also meant full time drinker at champs for dollar nacho night, 5 dollar bucket of beer night, and rib night. The other nights i filled in Bowling or drinking at the brewery or the crowbar. See the pattern?
Nice
I used to joke with folks I had 3 full-time jobs while in school. Full-time student, Full-time worker and full-time drinker.
It’s great seeing how other folks did the same thing, because during my time there it always felt like no one was doing that. My nights after work were usually filled in with house parties over where I lived at 252 S.Atherton. West side represent!
If they ever tell my story let them say that I walked with giants. Men rise and fall like the winter wheat, but these names will never die. Let them say I lived in the time of Bradley, tamer of offenses. Let them say I lived in the time of Paterno.
I was making up for lost time.
And then scheduling all of my classes on Tuesdays and Thursdays for three full semesters didn’t help my liver any.
Dec 03 PGM RPM
As I was leaving SC last weekend after a quick visit, I thought about all the changes that the campus has gone through since I left….finished ISt building, can’t drive through shortlidge, no more Hooters, new graduate housing…..all great things, but I said to my fiance driving down 99 “I hope too much doesn’t change because I want my kids to have the same experience that I had, the same that my parents had” and since kids are a couple years away and they will probably go to college on jet packs, I just hope Dear Old State keeps the core of our experiences and doesn’t get so big that we forget how its always been
Believe deep down in your heart that you are destined to do great things
1983
Premedicine.
Otter: [aside] Take it easy, I’m pre-law.
Boon: I thought you were pre-med.
Otter: What’s the difference? [aloud] Ladies and gentlemen, I’ll be brief. The issue here is not whether we broke a few rules, or took a few liberties with our female party guests—we did. [winks at Dean Wormer] But you can’t hold a whole fraternity responsible for the behavior of a few, sick perverted individuals. For if you do, then shouldn’t we blame the whole fraternity system? And if the whole fraternity system is guilty, then isn’t this an indictment of our educational institutions in general? I put it to you, Greg: isn’t this an indictment of our entire American society? Well, you can do what you you want to us, but we’re not going to sit here and listen to you badmouth the United States of America. Gentlemen!
by Pentimental on Feb 11, 2012 10:27 AM EST reply actions 8 recs
/gets up
/marches out
/hums ‘Star Spangled Banner’
365 beers from 365 different breweries in 365 days. Game on.
http://www.blognamedbrew.blogspot.com/
by Tailgate Shogun on Feb 11, 2012 12:33 PM EST up reply actions
'08 Advertising and Philosophy double major.
Went for 5 years, initially to get another football season and turn my philosophy minor into a major. Stayed for Spring to take some additional classes.
To any current students out there, let me share some tips:
The five minute rule (the other one) – get to class 5 minutes late. There will be an open seat next to a hot girl. You have an instant conversation starter in asking if you missed anything, wait until the end of class to ask her. It allows you to start up a conversation as you are leaving which has more potential than in the beginning of class. This does not apply for classes that are always full or classes that have few women. Mostly useful for gen eds.
Schedule classes you don’t need. Drop them right before the end of drop/add and pick up the ones you do. It helps if you are close with your advisor. After picking up the new classes, go to the office hours of your new professors and talk about the class with them. Set the expectations low and address that you are worries you’re already too far behind. It’ll help your curve at the end of the year when you have over-achieved and also buy you time for the initial assignments. Again, mostly applicable to gen eds.
Make friends with a Nittany Note taker. They have the ability to get any notes for free.
If a class has a quiz on the contents of the syllabus, drop it immediately. It will suck. Take it next semester with a different professor.
That’s about all I got for now. I’d include a list of easy classes and profs, but I don’t even know if they’re around anymore.. I’ll update with additional ideas.
P.S when taking tests, sit on the end of the row. The TA’s sometimes check your answers and help point out mistakes. This is how I passed Stat 200.
It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task.
by Succss With Honor Always on Feb 11, 2012 10:47 AM EST reply actions 2 recs
THIS MAN GETS IT!
What we cannot speak about, we must pass over in silence. --Ludwig Wittgenstein
by Truck O'Saurus on Feb 11, 2012 6:28 PM EST via Android app up reply actions
Make friends with a Nittany Note taker. They have the ability to get any notes for free
I was friends with the son of the guy that owned Nittany Notes, and the manager. I not only got all my notes for free, I got the “red card” I didn’t even have to wait in line. No attendance policy + Nittany Notes = jesse. never went to your class. Not once, ever.
I met his dad a few years later and simply thanked him.
...may we compete with fierce intensity, with the gifts that we have been given...
'02 History and Philosophy
I didn’t figure out the five minute rule until it was almost too late. Also, when he says the five minute rule does not apply to “classes that have few women,” he means philosophy classes.
I loved every 400 level philosophy class I took, except for when I would look around the room and see usual only one or two girls. And those girls were either dressed all in black with short hair, or ugly, or both. But the classes rocked.
Doug Anderson wasn’t just the best professor in the philosophy department, he was the best one in the whole school. Tragedy that he left.
Also, history kids: take some Wilson Moses classes if he’s still around. Ask him about being jailed in Germany and to recite poetry, though if you stick with him long enough, he’ll volunteer to do both without you asking.
I wouldn't trust old rooster me neither.
I was a big fan of Dennis Schmidt.
I think it’s due to my fondness for European philosophy, especially Heidegger.
It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task.
by Succss With Honor Always on Feb 15, 2012 8:23 PM EST up reply actions
'05 Accounting
Then off to Akron Law (’08) and work down in Houston, TX.
'97 BS in Finance
’03 MBA
’07 Master of Leadership Development.
Not one, not two, but THREE degrees from Dear Old State.
SUCK IT, OSU!
365 beers from 365 different breweries in 365 days. Game on.
http://www.blognamedbrew.blogspot.com/
by Tailgate Shogun on Feb 11, 2012 12:35 PM EST reply actions 5 recs
Out of curiosity
What is “Leadership Development”? Is that something above and beyond an MBA or something altogether different?
Completely different
Some core courses crossed over, but in general the MBA is about running a business – marketing, accounting, finance, etc.
The MLD is about vision, communication, role modeling, social responsibility, ethics, etc. Can apply to non-profits, community leadership, politics, etc.
I’ll just let the interwebs explain it:
http://www.sgps.psu.edu/prospective/academicprograms/leadership/mld.ashx
365 beers from 365 different breweries in 365 days. Game on.
http://www.blognamedbrew.blogspot.com/
by Tailgate Shogun on Feb 11, 2012 6:05 PM EST up reply actions
'97 Administration of Justice
I just don't want to die without a few scars. ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 6
1999 Administration of Justice.
With minors in Political Science and History. Other than the fact that I got into law school, my degrees are totally useless. I literally should have gone to Triangle Tech.
...may we compete with fierce intensity, with the gifts that we have been given...
I can't say the same...
I worked in the criminal justice field for 10 years and I’m now in the training realm of the fed. govt. these days. No regrets about the AdmJ degree.
I just don't want to die without a few scars. ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 6
Let's say this...
The people that were hiring for jobs to use that degree and I had some substantial philosophical differences. That said, I was trying to decide between graduate school at Shippensburg, or Juvenile Probation Officer in Mercer County before My acceptance to (a good) law school came through. That made the decision pretty clear.
I really enjoyed Professor Block’s classes though.
...may we compete with fierce intensity, with the gifts that we have been given...
Wait a minute. You were accepted to a good law school?
Then why did you choose to go to Pitt?
Striving for Success with Honor
by Frank O'Brien on Feb 13, 2012 10:26 PM EST up reply actions 3 recs
So I could see how charming Penn State fans can be from the other side.
...may we compete with fierce intensity, with the gifts that we have been given...
by jesse. on Feb 14, 2012 10:22 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
I like that
Striving for Success with Honor
by Frank O'Brien on Feb 14, 2012 2:24 PM EST up reply actions
'09 Secondary Education Social Studies
Dad went to school at Dear Old State from 74-78 but didn’t get his degree until 2011 when my younger sister also graduated from PSU.
Love the post idea, Cadderly, well done! If I could ask another question, where did people stay at PSU? I spent my four years in Sproul Hall in East, 2 years in The Graduate across from the Atherton Hotel, and a year in West Halls in Hamilton Hall.
I know my Dad tells countless stories of his time at Hartranft and the passing of a set of keys that opened doors to the steam tunnels and a particular cigar box lid to the most promising underclassman. My floormates at Sproul were famous for thier 10th floor slip and slide fall semester of ’05! Would love to hear other stories Penn Staters have.
Joseph Vincent Paterno. That is all.
Survey...
You know… if anyone wants to do a comprehensive survey on this stuff… Maybe somebody has a zoomerang or survey monkey account and would be willing to post a link, you could probably ask some great targeted questions. Of course, the administrators should probably okay this first.
I just don't want to die without a few scars. ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 6
1995 Bloomsburg U., Business Management
Rabid Penn State fan since c.1981.
"I guess we had a couple of Catholics praying for US!" - JVP, after the down to the wire win over Notre Dame in 1987
'08 Communication Arts and Sciences
Otherwise known as the “what exactly did you study in college?” major. At least that’s the first thing I’m asked in interviews when covering the education part of my resume. I highly doubt they want that I basically learned to b.s. my way through 20 page papers weekly with enough time left over to plan out heavy drinking days.
2006 Bloomsburg U. Computer and Information Science
Hopefully starting Masters through World Campus this fall.
'97 B.S. Business Logistics
Though somehow I ended up in IT consulting and then HR.
Also, my dad went to PSU in the early 70s (E.E.) and uncle is a retired PSU professor.
by danpsu97 on Feb 11, 2012 4:40 PM EST via iPhone app reply actions
'10 Journalism
Started with PGM/RPTM, but switched over after my sophomore year. Really enjoyed it while I was there, but didn’t end up sticking with it after graduation, and got into advertising instead.
"Believe deep down in your heart that you're destined to do great things."
1984, American Studies
with minors in History and Political Science. State introduced minors late in my academic career; I missed an Econ minor by one class (three credits).
Shout-out to the Liberal Arts from JoePa: “We Can Lick the World with the Liberal Arts.”
"Make haste to reassure us, I beg you, and tell us that our fellow citizens understand us, support us, and protect us as we ourselves are protecting the glory of the Empire.
"If it should be otherwise, if we should have to leave our bleached bones on these desert sands in vain, then beware the fury of the Legions."
Do I win some kind of prize? Oldest and farthest away!
’’ 81 Chemistry. Living in Shanghai PRC – here for work for a few years. Check BSD every morning when I get into the office to see what is happening at PSU. Watch the games on Sunday mornings here in SH via a slingbox whie reading the game threads. Most of the time the treads are more entertaining than the game!
Over the last few months, I have not minded being out of the country so much. Will miss JVP greatly. Looking forward to the fresh start with BOB.
by PRad on Feb 11, 2012 7:13 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
'11 Toxicology
Although I didn’t start reading until after I graduated last May.
I minored in that...
every Thursday night at the ’Gaff.
by cs93 on Feb 11, 2012 9:30 PM EST up reply actions 5 recs
I'm drunk and picked the wrong circle
Whoops! I’m actually 2003. Marketing.
by lexi1031 on Feb 11, 2012 10:51 PM EST via mobile reply actions
'87 Print Journalism
Back when it was still the School of Journalism.
'03 Psychology
Went to grad school at Vanderbilt. At Univ. of Delaware for a post-doc. Supremely happy to be out of SEC country.
I’m not a crazy doctor, or a sit on the couch and tell your life stories doctor… I study how kids learn.
And after coming back for about half the games this year, I REALLY forgot how much I loved PSU (aside from football). And then, shortly after I found BSD, all this shit happened… and I’ve found this place to be supremely healing.
Not to mention, I’ve never found a place on the internet where I could “talk” with so many people without 3/4’s of the posts making me feel like I must be more dumb for having read them. I mean, even the ludicrous and “lowbrow” posts are at least reasonably inventive and well-played… and generally bring a smile to my face.
In short… I love this place.
by BNittsDeMilo on Feb 12, 2012 12:54 AM EST reply actions 1 recs
How can you not like Nashville?
fun town.
365 beers from 365 different breweries in 365 days. Game on.
http://www.blognamedbrew.blogspot.com/
by Tailgate Shogun on Feb 12, 2012 7:53 AM EST up reply actions
Definitely a fun town.
But a bit less fun on a grad student salary.
Also, as much fun as Nashville is with some beautiful scenery surrounding it, I missed my snow skiing and relatively short rides to a beach. Not to mention the family…
Ya know… there’s just no place like home.
And, as I said, SEC fans are generally intolerable. Not because most of them aren’t perfectly nice people, but because they think they have the market cornered on college football and gameday traditions… neither of which I’ve ever been convinced of.
by BNittsDeMilo on Feb 12, 2012 10:27 AM EST up reply actions
Yeah I got into an arguement
With a friend of mine from Georgia and she literally said the words “You don’t know College game day until you go to a football game in the south” And I said really? cause I tailgated at the 2nd (At one time 1st) largest stadium in the United States and we have folks that camp out for a week ahead of time. That body paint their body even when its below freezing….I call that dedication…but you know your right…
Publicity is like poison; it doesn't hurt unless you swallow it.
Joe Paterno
by Modanya on Feb 12, 2012 1:02 PM EST up reply actions 7 recs
the best part of psu may have been tailgating
and just walking around getting invited to drink with people i’d never met before in my life.
History major
And I was at another university I just happened to grow up in State College…(Got a scholarship else where how can you deny free schooling!?) Comming back to Dickson (Carlisle) to finish up my Law degree.
Publicity is like poison; it doesn't hurt unless you swallow it.
Joe Paterno
Got a scholarship else where how can you deny free schooling!
Pitt, I suppose
...may we compete with fierce intensity, with the gifts that we have been given...
Good thing
I didn’t go to Pitt
Publicity is like poison; it doesn't hurt unless you swallow it.
Joe Paterno
I did.
It was awesome.
...may we compete with fierce intensity, with the gifts that we have been given...
2006, University of South Carolina, Economics
PSU fan since birth, as mom is an alumni. Plus USC only got somewhat interesting (read: more than succesful, rather entertaining) since Spurrier arrived. But a very early memory is my grandfather somehow talking the groundskeeper to let me run around in Beaver Stadium: pretty awesome.
"It's football the way it's meant to be played. That's who Pittsburgh is, and that's who Pittsburgh has always been."
-- so says Rex Ryan.
Econ at South Carolina?
So… what is the exchange rates of pelts to hardtack these days?
I just don't want to die without a few scars. ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 6
Not sure, mine ended up being Liberal Arts Econ, so you know it missed all those real-word applications.
"It's football the way it's meant to be played. That's who Pittsburgh is, and that's who Pittsburgh has always been."
-- so says Rex Ryan.
Ha!!!
Well… glad you are here. You are certainly from the better of the two USC’s.
I just don't want to die without a few scars. ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 6
Of course
I get into rugby at USC, and then learn that Penn State has one of the best rugby programs in the nation, at least one starter for the national team currently, and the first rugby team in the nation to offer scholarships with university funds (!)
"It's football the way it's meant to be played. That's who Pittsburgh is, and that's who Pittsburgh has always been."
-- so says Rex Ryan.
Not sure what happened there!
But, glad you are here sctx109. You are from the better of the USC’s.
I just don't want to die without a few scars. ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 6
96 Economics
Graduated in 3.5 years. Spent every day since trying to figure out how to get back.
Econ 97
Realized in my sophomore year that I was on track to graduate in 3.5 years and added a couple of minors to stretch things out to four years. Easily one of the three best decisions that I’ve ever made.
"I just want everyone in this situation to man the fuck up and accept some of the responsibility." SwHA
by kijana's acl on Feb 15, 2012 8:28 AM EST up reply actions
'03 BMB
Kind of using my degree currently.
Ok, I'll bite
what does BMB stand for?
365 beers from 365 different breweries in 365 days. Game on.
http://www.blognamedbrew.blogspot.com/
by Tailgate Shogun on Feb 14, 2012 7:06 AM EST up reply actions
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Probably the smallest department in all of Eberly. I graduated in December of ’03, and I think there was 13 of us.
What are the chances?
Seeing as how I bet there were probably all of about 50 of us across all 3 graduations in ‘03, it’s pretty rare to run across someone else, even on a PSU blog :)
well, to be honest I don't think I knew a single person I technically graduated with (summer)
I was supposed to be an ‘02 graduate, but I did the co-op program which got me off sync on a couple courses, which made me come back for Fall ’02 for 1 friggen 1 credit lab course (though so glad I did, that football season was really fun), and I technically didn’t take any courses in all of 2003, just my co-op credits.
by The JuggerNitt on Feb 14, 2012 11:16 PM EST up reply actions
'04 Journalism
focus in Broadcast minor in Poli Sci. Started out in meteorology but i suck at physux and calculus
If you can't stand the heat, get out of the Big Ten...or just lose the sweater vest.
2003 PhD in Health Policy and Administration.
I started as a Freshman in 1992 at University Park, but transferred out in the middle of my Junior year (right after the undefeated 1994 season). I came back in 1998 for grad school. It took me 11 years, but I finally got the Penn State degree!
"Believe deep down in your heart that you're destined to do great things." Joseph Vincent Paterno 1926-2012
'10 RPTM
that’s recreation, parks and tourism management for all you non-tree hugging folks.
We have little tranquility but tons of tranquilizers.
1988 - Quantitative Business Analysis
by dontcallmescooter on Feb 14, 2012 4:37 PM EST reply actions
Oh brother!
I hated QBA! I was a slacker (liberal arts…sorry LA people, just repeating what my ole man used to say) who decided to become a business major (logistics) my junior year. “They” told me I could do that. Don’t believe “them”, ever. So my junior year I got clobbered by two years of catch-up with all the fun stuff business majors take while still learning how to shave and drink and change their socks during their freshman and sophmore years. QBA, calculus, some funny new thing called intro to computer-something. We held a memorial for my GPA late one friday nite late into Winter Term (trimester system then). I don’t recall much of it, other than my GPA was still there in the morning. Those are now some of the best memories. The things you have to bust your ass for are always the most rewarding. But I still hate QBA (and my hat is off to those (oddballs) who live for and can excel in those pursuits).
In God we trust. Everyone else, keep your hands where I can see them
Haha – I am just happy that someone knows of that major. I think they quit offering it 15 years ago. My brother was a logistics major – seems to be working out for him.
by dontcallmescooter on Feb 14, 2012 9:09 PM EST up reply actions
Well the basic skills are pretty much in demand
in what I do now (civilian support to DoD acquisition programs). I actually remember about 1/10th of what I learned and it’s enough to realize you don’t know what you don’t know, and intelligently task some well-trained smart guy to go get the answers. What did they pull that major into? it sure hasn’t gone away.
In God we trust. Everyone else, keep your hands where I can see them
Ha, that's nice
I never put BLog and blog together before. You should be running this place! Imagine that, a blogging degree…
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