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Post by chonies on Sept 19, 2017 16:44:53 GMT -4
I would have liked the interviewer to ask her what she's reading at the moment, but sometimes I feel like I'm asking for the world, between this and colleges publishing what their student-athletes' majors are. Sociology or Communications. I was a Sociology major and I had a bunch of cheerleaders in my sorority; I know stuff. One of my classmates went on to be a very famous NFL player. I am fairly certain that he was illiterate or semi-literate. Topic? I think she has the potential to become an interesting woman, but she has some growing up to do. Interesting--there was a big NY Times article about a professor at Florida State who fought a losing battle against the athletics program, and she was in hospitality. Most of the athletes in my classes are sports and exercise science majors. And I agree about Shailene. |
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Post by riosamba on Sept 19, 2017 17:14:57 GMT -4
Sociology or Communications. I was a Sociology major and I had a bunch of cheerleaders in my sorority; I know stuff. One of my classmates went on to be a very famous NFL player. I am fairly certain that he was illiterate or semi-literate. Topic? I think she has the potential to become an interesting woman, but she has some growing up to do. Interesting--there was a big NY Times article about a professor at Florida State who fought a losing battle against the athletics program, and she was in hospitality. Most of the athletes in my classes are sports and exercise science majors. And I agree about Shailene. Those majors make sense for people that can actually study. 25 years ago at my university, no one said a peep to the football program. They got whatever they wanted, and I know there were a lot of shenanigans. I think it's better now. |
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Post by narm on Sept 19, 2017 20:08:51 GMT -4
Oh man, I love this young lady! I'm bummed people don't like her much! Im definitely swimming upstream lately with my celeb opinions. Well, folks, we'll always have GOOP.
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Post by MrsCatHead on Sept 19, 2017 20:27:21 GMT -4
Sociology or Communications. I was a Sociology major and I had a bunch of cheerleaders in my sorority; I know stuff. One of my classmates went on to be a very famous NFL player. I am fairly certain that he was illiterate or semi-literate. Topic? I think she has the potential to become an interesting woman, but she has some growing up to do. Interesting--there was a big NY Times article about a professor at Florida State who fought a losing battle against the athletics program, and she was in hospitality. Most of the athletes in my classes are sports and exercise science majors. And I agree about Shailene. Super interesting! Off topic: I am a Communication major (not CommunicationS, which people mix up sometimes) and getting my masters right now. My undergrad minor was Sociology. I saw TONS of athletes majoring in Comm or Soc during undergrad. I feel like people tend to think Communication is easy, not realizing how much we actually write. Interestingly now that I'm teaching as a grad student, I see a lot of athletes who major in fitness and nutrition. Topic? This girl has bugged me since Divergent. She inexplicably annoys me on-screen. Like Bill Paxton used to, RIP. I can't really explain it. But there it is. |
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Post by Auroranorth on Sept 19, 2017 21:40:15 GMT -4
Anyone else old enough to remember when people said, "I only watch PBS," instead of "I don't watch TV,"? I do! And it was always delivered in that snotty tone of, "Only the little people watch CBS or ABC." |
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Post by riosamba on Sept 19, 2017 21:50:29 GMT -4
Interesting--there was a big NY Times article about a professor at Florida State who fought a losing battle against the athletics program, and she was in hospitality. Most of the athletes in my classes are sports and exercise science majors. And I agree about Shailene. Super interesting! Off topic: I am a Communication major (not CommunicationS, which people mix up sometimes) and getting my masters right now. My undergrad minor was Sociology. I saw TONS of athletes majoring in Comm or Soc during undergrad. I feel like people tend to think Communication is easy, not realizing how much we actually write. Interestingly now that I'm teaching as a grad student, I see a lot of athletes who major in fitness and nutrition. Topic? This girl has bugged me since Divergent. She inexplicably annoys me on-screen. Like Bill Paxton used to, RIP. I can't really explain it. But there it is. I can't like your post because I loved Bill Paxton, but otherwise, consider yourself liked. In my day, you could kind of skate through with an acceptable gpa with minimal effort, but you did have to work for the A in Sociology. I absolutely think that the professors had to look the other way on quite a bit of stuff from the football players. Interestingly, they were never in the concentrations relating to inequality. Those were the iron ladies of the department and I think they must have put their feet down. Topic? Shailene was adorable in Felicity. I'm reaching, I know. |
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Post by eclair on Sept 19, 2017 22:55:49 GMT -4
One of my women's studies professors told us that when it was a newly created department the first classes were full of football players because they all thought, "Women's Studies? Easy A." which would have been an interesting time to take those classes. I wish I'd asked how they did end up doing academically.
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Post by famvir on Sept 20, 2017 11:26:25 GMT -4
Apropos of absolutely nothing at all, just an interesting story that goes along with jocks and easy A's. In my figure studies art class, the first few weeks we had an obese male figure model. The idea was to dissuade the guys that thought they would get to oogle beautiful naked females. I took a lot of figure studies classes in my college career, and we always had a 1/3 drop out rate in the first two weeks.
The goto jock science requirement was dismissively referred to as "rocks and stars."
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Post by mrspickles on Sept 20, 2017 12:04:22 GMT -4
Apropos of absolutely nothing at all, just an interesting story that goes along with jocks and easy A's. In my figure studies art class, the first few weeks we had an obese male figure model. The idea was to dissuade the guys that thought they would get to oogle beautiful naked females. I took a lot of figure studies classes in my college career, and we always had a 1/3 drop out rate in the first two weeks. The goto jock science requirement was dismissively referred to as "rocks and stars." I confess that I took a Chemistry for Non-Majors class that was openly referred to as 'chemistry for poets.' We had an entire lecture on 'aardvark math' that went sort of like this: "If you have 2 aardvarks and you add 2 giraffes, do you have 4 aardvarks? No, you still have 2 aardvarks and 2 giraffes! But you have 4 animals. That's how chemistry works- if you have 2 molecules of one element and 4 molecules of another and you put them together you don't have 6 molecules of the same thing, you have 6 molecules that react together in a unique way." At least it stuck, I guess. |
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Post by ladyboy on Sept 20, 2017 12:54:29 GMT -4
The goto jock science requirement was dismissively referred to as "rocks and stars." Ours was called "Football Physics", meaning it was totally dumbed down so the football players could pass. |
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