The bookstack now looks smaller, only because I separated the manga out. Given that southwest lets me check in two bags, of course I'm going to fill one with books and take 'em to book-off
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Haha, I was just babbling university lingo for a bit.
State = SF State & Cal = Berkeley. I thought it was a US-only distinction - because, I'd never thought of my school referred like that when I was applying, and some of the international students were all "Cal? What's that?", and how ESPN/etc always refer to the football team as the Cal team as opposed to say, the UCLA Bruins. But so it looks like it's just a Bay Area thing, and even more so if you only grew up in English-speaking circles. XD
But it's kinda true, that Berkeley's very theoretical and we have almost no shop classes, and that was one of the biggest struggles we had in our design class - really, none of us really knew how best to assemble our launcher together and went straight to the hammer and nails, and I doubt if any of the chem and bio PhDs know how to really know their machines. (Our ICP-MS was broken on both occasions I wanted to use it. :P) Even my friend's dad, who did undergrad at UCLA and then went to CSU LA said the CSUs prepared him much better for actual work. I guess this means that I'll be spending summers both on the job & taking shop classes, wherever I am.
I'd think that Louisiana engineers and most of the engineers in the South would be fretting over levee systems and hurricanes, since that's a major issue over there. (Like the Associate Dean said: natural disasters attract a lot of wannabe civil engineers. Including myself.)
I thought MEs had a hard time as well, after CEs but above just about everybody else.
Ironically, over here at CCSF it's the mature and returning students, and the people who've taken more of the design classes share more of that 'vocational' attitude. The bookish kids (read: very Asian, and likely to get into the UCs) all keep mum. But I doubt many of them really have the motivation to sit down and critique literary theory or something /that/ abstract. Or they go off and get MBAs afterwards. :P I'd thought my professor would be better than that, though.
State = SF State & Cal = Berkeley. I thought it was a US-only distinction - because, I'd never thought of my school referred like that when I was applying, and some of the international students were all "Cal? What's that?", and how ESPN/etc always refer to the football team as the Cal team as opposed to say, the UCLA Bruins. But so it looks like it's just a Bay Area thing, and even more so if you only grew up in English-speaking circles. XD
But it's kinda true, that Berkeley's very theoretical and we have almost no shop classes, and that was one of the biggest struggles we had in our design class - really, none of us really knew how best to assemble our launcher together and went straight to the hammer and nails, and I doubt if any of the chem and bio PhDs know how to really know their machines. (Our ICP-MS was broken on both occasions I wanted to use it. :P) Even my friend's dad, who did undergrad at UCLA and then went to CSU LA said the CSUs prepared him much better for actual work. I guess this means that I'll be spending summers both on the job & taking shop classes, wherever I am.
I'd think that Louisiana engineers and most of the engineers in the South would be fretting over levee systems and hurricanes, since that's a major issue over there. (Like the Associate Dean said: natural disasters attract a lot of wannabe civil engineers. Including myself.)
I thought MEs had a hard time as well, after CEs but above just about everybody else.
Ironically, over here at CCSF it's the mature and returning students, and the people who've taken more of the design classes share more of that 'vocational' attitude. The bookish kids (read: very Asian, and likely to get into the UCs) all keep mum. But I doubt many of them really have the motivation to sit down and critique literary theory or something /that/ abstract. Or they go off and get MBAs afterwards. :P I'd thought my professor would be better than that, though.
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