Posted on 04/19/2017 12:42:18 PM PDT by billorites
Yep.
At NJIT in the 1970’s the attrition rate for chemical engineering was 88% and electrical engineering was 67%. I worked my butt off for the BSEE, while working during the day as a technician.
Perhaps that is their goal: become mediocre engineers. No more, maybe even less.
Correct, Mudd also delved into illegal geriatric drugs.....................
I had a very different experience ... BS in Physics. Very small program ... You didn’t get in unless they were darn sure you’d succeed. Then you worked your butt off, pushed yourself farther than you thought possible. The Few. The Proud.
They should expel every student that made these ‘demands’ and return their money
Beat me to it.
It’s coming to the point where I’ll never go across a bridge again, and I already have a bridge phobia about some bridges.
Harvey Mudd was the college that Thomas Sowell held up as an example of great scholarship in engineering. I think his son went there.
I hate affirmative action.
Just remember, every bridge was designed and built by the lowest bidders.................
Errors significant enough to destroy her theories of human caused global warming.
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How did she react?
LOL, thanks a lot. The last time I drove home to Mississippi from Virginia by myself, I drove it all in one day. By the time I had to cross the series of bridges in Mobile, I was already worn out. When I got to the Pascagoula bridge, I was hyperventilating and finally had to call my husband to come get me, I just couldn’t make myself drive across.
Apparently it’s not a true phsycological phobia, it’s something to do with an inner ear thing that can happen to people in middle age. I’ve read about a man who pilots jets, but has to be driven across the Mackinaw bridge. I didn’t feel so foolish when I read that. But looking at pictures of that bridge, I couldn’t have crossed it in my youth before this came upon me! That is one scary-looking bridge, and it’s not even the worst I’ve seen, it just always comes to mind.
Certainly not a universal, but I seemed like the men, especially the American ones, did better in the hands on engineering classes. The foreign students and women were relatively less comfortable with the practical parts. But it has been many years since I was in school.
The same mathematics concepts were being taught, but in a way that would appeal and allow women to thrive, Klawe said.
So, what is girl math like?
Ha. I had an overnight job in High School guarding Fiber Optic cables being laid under the I10 Pascagoula bridge.
One side for an hour, then drive across to the other side for an hour. That bridge is hard enough sober. Don’t get me started!
Sigh.
If they think that professors are hard, wait until they have a boss. Or worse, clients.
I attended Claremont Men’s College in the late 60’s and early 70’s. All five colleges were great then. Now we have student insurrections at Mudd, CMC, and Pomona, all of them seemingly based on race in one way or another. Forty-five years ago no Mudder would have made the demands described in the posted article. They had too much pride in their capacity to handle the truly significant workload imposed by that great college. I agree with the other persons posting here. For the Claremont Colleges to return to their former glory, the students who cannot handle the work or who would seek to impede the ability of others to express their views should leave - voluntarily or otherwise.
Some people SHOULDN'T BE ALLOWED TO CROSS BRIDGES...................
LOL!
Weight Limit signs are there for a reason...................
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