Calculus

What is calculus to you

  • A central and unassailable tenant of GT’s academic prestige

  • A religious sacrament to the Hillnerds that is a huge ‘recruit against’ tool

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Why does the Calculus discussion only come up when we suck at football?

Does everybody think Calculus is really the biggest problem we have right now?
 
Calculus alone isn't the issue. GT doesn't and should never have no-show classes which only require projects and/or papers. I guarantee kids in the factories are enrolled in such classes and have tutors who "help" write the papers. Changing the calculus requirement might remove a single point of negative recruiting but won't make a bit of difference in the long run.
One curriculum change of note which occurred since I graduated is that there is now an easier CS class for non-engineering majors. When I was enrolled every student had to take the same CS class and it was not easy, even for CS majors.
 
gtg970g said:
Calculus alone isn't the issue. GT doesn't and should never have no-show classes which only require projects and/or papers. I guarantee kids in the factories are enrolled in such classes and have tutors who "help" write the papers. Changing the calculus requirement might remove a single point of negative recruiting but won't make a bit of difference in the long run.
One curriculum change of note which occurred since I graduated is that there is now an easier CS class for non-engineering majors. When I was enrolled every student had to take the same CS class and it was not easy, even for CS majors.
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#drownproofing
 
BainbridgeJacket said:
We should have enough academic support and tutoring in place that it would take more effort to fail than it does to pass. Then we need to sell that as a positive attribute of the program.
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We do have that kind of academic support, and we do sell it as a positive attribute.

I think the coaches need to wear better cologne. Who doesn't like a good smelling man?
 
18in32 said:
We do have that kind of academic support, and we do sell it as a positive attribute.

I think the coaches need to wear better cologne. Who doesn't like a good smelling man?
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How can we ever expect to compete when such important decisions are made on such subjective criteria. We're engineers, we can't do that.
 
BainbridgeJacket said:
How can we ever expect to compete when such important decisions are made on such subjective criteria. We're engineers, we can't do that.
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I don't know enough about CPJ as a recruiter, but I do know a lot of people make decisions based on the salesman. It is possible that even if we changed nothing else about the school/team/program, just having different salesmen could yield better results. I don't know.
 
I'm not convinced the players in that Ugag-LSU game are passing LSU/ugag classes either. All I would say is for about 5 guys a recruiting class, I don't care if they cannot qualify or cannot pass courses. Figure out a way to make it happen and a way to keep them enrolled for three years. Junior college player doesn't have the credits to transfer, make a loophole.
I don't buy that GT is perfect, innocent, or a shining beacon of everything good in college football. I think we are already dirty and just plain suck at being dirty.
 
KrazieJacket said:
I don't buy that GT is perfect, innocent, or a shining beacon of everything good in college football. I think we are already dirty and just plain suck at being dirty.
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I agree that GT is probably not in a different place morally/ethically than other schools, other staffs, other boosters, other internet posters. But not because GT is dirty — because most schools, most staffs, most boosters, most internet posters, are not dirty.
 
I took 4 semesters of calculus and I now remember exactly 0.1% of what I learned and use 0.0% in my daily life...
 
My understanding is, the Business majors have to do their calc survey course by the end of the sophomore year. How about we just bump that back to the end of the junior year or any time before you get the degree? That way, a kid can do his football thing and have plenty of time to work up to calc, and The Hill gets to keep calc in the curriculum.
 
Using the word "pussy" to mean something wimpy or not requiring much intelligence is derogatory to women because it associates women with wimpiness and unintelligence. Especially bad in the context of STEM.

I think it'd be better to call it baby calculus
 
RussianOffense said:
Using the word "pussy" to mean something wimpy or not requiring much intelligence is derogatory to women because it associates women with wimpiness and unintelligence. Especially bad in the context of STEM.

I think it'd be better to call it baby calculus
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I’m 50+ years out of GT and I’m still looking for a use for calculus, or drownproofing for that matter.
 
RussianOffense said:
Using the word "pussy" to mean something wimpy or not requiring much intelligence is derogatory to women because it associates women with wimpiness and unintelligence. Especially bad in the context of STEM.

I think it'd be better to call it baby calculus
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Things a pussy would say
 
Even if we had a scholarship load of 85 complete dumbasses, it’s not going to affect the school’s reputation. We don’t even need 85 dumbasses. Just more than we have now.
 
RussianOffense said:
Using the word "pussy" to mean something wimpy or not requiring much intelligence is derogatory to women because it associates women with wimpiness and unintelligence. Especially bad in the context of STEM.

I think it'd be better to call it baby calculus
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Oh, j thought we were just calculating something other than the area under the curve. If u kno wat I mean
 
RussianOffense said:
Using the word "pussy" to mean something wimpy or not requiring much intelligence is derogatory to women because it associates women with wimpiness and unintelligence. Especially bad in the context of STEM.

I think it'd be better to call it baby calculus
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