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Post by Mayleng on Oct 19, 2008 19:43:32 GMT -5
That's wonderful.
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Post by healthy11 on Oct 19, 2008 20:37:11 GMT -5
This afternoon I attended the wedding of a friend's daughter....believe it or not, she got an Engineering degree from an Ivy League school, then decided to get a Master's in Dance (she was a baton majorette throughout high school and college) and NOW she's teaching some dance theory classes at Dartmouth, along with operating a preschool program for them. Talk about changing career paths!
As far as my son goes, he says he's probably going to declare himself a mechanical engineer rather than electrical, because then he isn't required to take the Java Six class. He plans to drop it this week. He claims a big part of the problem is the teacher (the lady teaches theory, but the tests are all programming-oriented) AND what he wouldn't acknowledge, but I think also matters, is that his dyslexia is causing him to make errors...He showed me one "test question" and he'd misspelled a couple of words, so I suspect his lack of attention to detail could really affect the outcome. I feel sort-of bad for him, because he has never said he wanted to do software work, he's always been more interested in hardware, but if he can't get through the freshman required course, forget the rest.....
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Post by bros on Oct 19, 2008 21:13:28 GMT -5
Quite the career path changes there.
And a Java teacher teaching only theory is just... odd. My teacher spends at least an hour teaching us what we learned. And spelling and capitalization is a rather important part of programming. A good programming tool to use is EditPlus (free)
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Post by healthy11 on Oct 20, 2008 10:07:09 GMT -5
bros, thanks for mentioning EditPlus...I'll pass the info on to my son. I doubt it would help, if he's not allowed to use it during tests. (I haven't any idea if they are allowed to use their own laptops, or probably something the school provides.) I've tried to encourage my son not to "give up" on EE yet, but maybe see if a different instructor is teaching the class next semester, and maybe that would help.
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Post by bros on Oct 20, 2008 10:31:01 GMT -5
My uncle's an EE. He says EE and Computer Engineering are basically the same exact things
Tell your son to try to talk to another teacher in the subject, or go to a place in the school where he can get help with his work?
Hands on things help. I wouldn't be passing my Java class without hands-on coding, because absorbing a lecture at 8:30 in the morning is quite difficult when tired
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Post by healthy11 on Oct 20, 2008 11:19:32 GMT -5
Bros, truth be known my husband is an EE, and I have an IE degree. I disagree with your uncle about EE and computer engineering being the same...In my husband's company, there's a separate division between software engineers who write programming, and the hardware engineers who layout components on circuit boards, etc. Even in my son's college, there IS a distinction between the EE's and ECE majors, but they BOTH are required to take the darn Java Six class.
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Post by bros on Oct 20, 2008 12:36:58 GMT -5
Java is useful
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Post by healthy11 on Oct 20, 2008 12:53:43 GMT -5
I'm sure it is, but I can't imagine a teacher focusing on theory in her lectures, and then testing on programming without having covered it during classes. (I really don't know what a "reasonable accommodation" would be for my son as far as his misspelling stuff goes, either, because I know programming is very detail-oriented...) It's a conundrum for my son.
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Post by bros on Oct 20, 2008 12:55:35 GMT -5
Programming depends on proper capitalization.
Maybe oral testing? My college offers that to people who need it. He could state out loud what the answer is.
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Post by bros on Oct 21, 2008 9:04:57 GMT -5
In Programming right now, bored.
Healthy, tell me what your son is going over in his Java class, maybe I can give him notes, or some lectures I have recorded.
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Post by healthy11 on Oct 21, 2008 17:31:34 GMT -5
Thank you for your offer, Bros...since my son stays in the dorm M-F, I doubt I'll be able to get details from him again until the weekend....
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Post by bros on Oct 21, 2008 18:28:00 GMT -5
Send him an email or call him or something haha. But yeah, I can maybe help if you find out what he is having trouble with.
The most recent programming test was all programming, when he told us it would be theory. I still did good on it
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Post by bros on Oct 22, 2008 13:09:55 GMT -5
English was cancelled today. Professor's daughter is terminally ill (cancer). And his other daughter (who has LDs) just got married last month.
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Post by healthy11 on Oct 22, 2008 16:21:42 GMT -5
I'm sorry to hear about that, especially when younger people are involved. I guess that's one of the differences between college, and younger grades, because you begin to see your instructors as "human beings" with personal lives, not just as "authority figures in a classroom."
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Post by bros on Oct 24, 2008 13:24:21 GMT -5
4 hours of math today.
Was quite boring
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Post by Mayleng on Oct 24, 2008 13:31:33 GMT -5
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Post by bros on Oct 24, 2008 13:51:59 GMT -5
Responded.
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Post by bros on Oct 29, 2008 10:24:15 GMT -5
College Success Seminar and English today.
I hope the english professor's daughter is doing better
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Post by healthy11 on Oct 29, 2008 10:25:57 GMT -5
We hope so, too.
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Post by bros on Oct 29, 2008 15:17:09 GMT -5
His daughter is doing good.
Her lung cancer is gone, but because of the Radiation Therapy she received for it, she now has Bone Cancer on top of her Breast Cancer. So she has been started on intensive Chemo.
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Post by healthy11 on Oct 29, 2008 19:44:16 GMT -5
I've said a prayer....
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Post by bros on Oct 30, 2008 9:33:19 GMT -5
He said that the chemo is working and that she is probably going to live for a while, because she has a 4 and a 6 year old at home.
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Post by Mayleng on Oct 30, 2008 9:43:17 GMT -5
That is so sad.
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Post by bros on Nov 4, 2008 7:07:03 GMT -5
Computer classes today. And election day
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Post by bros on Nov 7, 2008 13:06:47 GMT -5
4 hours of math today. Weee.
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Post by yngmea on Nov 7, 2008 13:44:07 GMT -5
ewwwwwwwww I HATE math
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Post by bros on Nov 7, 2008 15:19:42 GMT -5
Yeah. Math makes me tired.
The teacher kept messing up the sample problems she was doing because she didn't have her morning coffee
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Post by socalgal on Nov 8, 2008 23:13:57 GMT -5
I used to have math teacher who would only teach at 8a -- brilliant and likable guy, who became one of my all-time greatest teachers -- I took three advanced math classes with him. But 8a was deadly -- it meant that I had to leave my house between 5:30 & 6a in order to be on-time. It was just rude.
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Post by bros on Nov 9, 2008 11:03:23 GMT -5
haha
I have to take morning classes so my mom can drive me to college before work.
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Post by bros on Nov 12, 2008 11:35:43 GMT -5
Yay. Only a week or two left of college success seminar. Then on wednesdays, I don't have class until 2
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