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9/29/2009 9:28:59 AM

Water Aerobics
Bowling
LOG201 - I was the only A in this entire class. Literally half the class failed. I still don't understand why less than half the class actually "grasped" the concepts. Of course this was back in 2001. I wonder if people are still failing it? It had the worst grade distribution I'd ever seen.

9/29/2009 9:34:04 AM

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"HI 322: Rise of Modern Science w/ Dr. William Kimler"

I love Dr. Kimler but was not a fan of that class

My personal faves are:

ZO 542: Herpetology w/ Dr. Heatwole
ZO 151: Animal Diversity w/ Dr. Grant and my really cool TA Benoit
PHI 325: Biomedical Ethics w/ Dr. Harwood
GN 301: Genes and Human Development w/ Dr. McK!
PSY 430: BioPsych w/ Dr. Kalat

9/29/2009 9:36:46 AM

^^ Let's go bowling over Turkey Day! You will kick my ass.

A few others:
ENG 551 Chaucer
ENG 433 Screenwriting
ENG 585 Advanced Screenwriting

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9/29/2009 9:38:10 AM

COM 344 - Intro to Film Production (Stein)
COM 317 - Television Production (Alchediak)

[Edited on September 29, 2009 at 9:46 AM. Reason : side note, com 317 is marko's LEAST favorite class at nc state Ø]

9/29/2009 9:45:45 AM

ECE 220

9/29/2009 9:46:16 AM

oh, i also really enjoyed ENG282 with Wallis.

my final paper was about Brokeback Mountain, entitled "Coming Out in the Great Outdoors" (thanks Lucy )

9/29/2009 9:46:54 AM

Bees and Beekeeping with Tarpy
American Government with Imade
Ultimate Frisbee with Ousley
Visual Thinking with Crow
all the TED classes

9/29/2009 9:48:43 AM

^^ That was an awesome movie. Hope you enjoyed your bridal shower gift.

9/29/2009 9:52:27 AM

9/29/2009 9:53:07 AM

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"Repro with Mitch Hockett"

Agreed!

Also Advanced Repro and Biotechnology with Dr. Ferrin was awesome. Really tough class but I learned a lot!

9/29/2009 10:50:40 AM

Class of 2008

9/29/2009 11:11:50 AM

ENG 282: Intro to Film, Tom Wallis

9/29/2009 11:25:44 AM

Phi 300: Ancient Philosophy w/ Dr Jesseph was probably my favorite from undergrad. Eng 209: Shakespeare w/ Dr. Hunt. GRK 310 Mythology w/ Dr. Packman.

Those were probably my favorite classes from undergrad because of the intersection of subject matter I found interesting with professors who were great. I'd recommend a class with any of the 3. (Although Dr. Packman may have just retired? And Dr. Jesseph was doing some teaching in Florida too, so I'm not sure if he is back yet).

Target Archery was fun too.

I'm still a little too new to grad school to say which is my favorite, but PA 601 Effective Public Communications has been pretty interesting so far.

9/29/2009 1:14:35 PM

I found Jesseph to be a very hateful man. He was a serious asshole to most students in my class. He taught the PHI class I hated. And that was my only C in college.

9/29/2009 1:18:44 PM

A lot of the philosophy professors are giant douchebags just by design. Also, a few of them at NCSU are single, middle aged, and have inferiority complexes with young attractive women. Did you get a C even though you tried, or did you slack off because the class sucked?

9/29/2009 1:21:55 PM

I slacked off and skipped that class a lot of times because I couldn't stand the professor. He would make rude, sarcastic comments to belittle students on a daily basis.

So, I am grateful for the C. I probably should have failed. I only showed up for the bare minimum for his class.

Most English/Film professors are super nice, so he was a stark contrast to my other instructors.

9/29/2009 1:25:22 PM

man you must've taken some easy ass classes

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9/29/2009 1:30:16 PM

My classes were easy for me, but English isn't easy for everyone, so I suppose it's relative. I mean, not everyone would want to write 100-page papers, but I did, and it's something I do at work on a regular basis.

9/29/2009 1:36:20 PM

Any PE class with Kidd...I took bowling, softball, and fitness & wellness with him

9/29/2009 1:38:26 PM

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"A lot of the philosophy professors are giant douchebags just by design. "

I'll never forget my first semester at state.. I took "contemporary moral issues" (or something along those lines) and had a batshit insane prof. I think the most memorable part of that class that I had was when one day she tried explaining to us that it should be ok to kill mentally retarded infants, but of course the parents aren't going to let you do that. I don't think I've ever met someone who truly advocated for infanticide

To this die I still hope she was being sarcastic... but I'm afraid she wasn't.

9/29/2009 3:13:24 PM

I also really enjoyed a Kubrick and Altman film class.

9/29/2009 3:18:40 PM

^ You were in that? It was the best ever! I was not expecting to fall in love with Altman, but his films were fantastic.

Wish I had taken the Coen Brothers film class.

9/29/2009 3:23:55 PM

I loved:

STS 322: Technical Catastrophes

Toxicology

and HI 208 - Middle Ages

AND, ENG 246 - Literature of the Holocaust



[Edited on September 29, 2009 at 3:41 PM. Reason : remembered]

9/29/2009 3:37:00 PM

ENG 116? I think? maybe it was 206? or 216.... whichever, anyways NCSU used to require that everyone take 2 seperate 3 hour english classes, sequentially. unless you had: AP credit or a high verbal score on the SAT (back when the SAT was out of 1600 total points). I had a high enough verbal score (680+ i think is what you needed to qualify).

i'm not sure if a certain AP score got you out of both english classes or other scores just one or what since that didn't apply to me, anyways if you qualified you could take a 'advanced' freshman english that counted a 6 credit hours effectively but was only a 3 hour class in reality. it was great, we didn't spend any fucking time pissing around with structure or any of that nonsense, just straight to being able to distill a succinct non-rambling paper from a book, movie, or large collection of information. We wrote 6 papers I think the whole year and the final was a online/take home set of essays of a maximum length, (pick 3 of 5 topics and write 3 single spaced pages on each or something). knocked the whole thing out in a few hours, got a A on the final. B+ in the class as a whole (and I really really dislike most english classes throughout my academic career)

ARC 452: introduction to architecture, A+, it's very easy if you know what they are looking for, a process.

GN 401 (i think): genetics for biologists
BCH 450?: the primary biochem class with the old perverted lady (loves the boys) she was a great teacher but the material was hard a fuck.

swim conditioning: had a few hot girls, easy A, got to stay in shape too!

auditing tennis classes (i think i did this twice, i'm not sure)

Human anatomy and physiology: took it over the summer, good class, good teacher, cute girls

HI 252 - Modern American with Dr Hobbs
history of war - missed the final due to me not realizing what day it was on.... or rather thinking it was on the wrong day.... still got a B+ even with that 0 (prof would not let me do anything about it)

9/29/2009 3:38:11 PM

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"^ You were in that? It was the best ever! I was not expecting to fall in love with Altman, but his films were fantastic."

yep...Thursday nights, ahhh, Spring 2003 or 2004 IIRC??

and yes...while familiar with MASH, I wasn't other things he had done. Since that class, Nashville has had a firm position in my top ten.

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9/29/2009 3:39:42 PM

^ Nashville rocks. I'm pretty much obsessed with Shelly Duvall. She's so striking!

9/29/2009 3:51:53 PM

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"I took "contemporary moral issues" (or something along those lines) and had a batshit insane prof."

Oh god I had forgotten about that class. I swear the professors who teach it say off the wall shit just to see if we'll believe them.

9/29/2009 3:58:07 PM

HI 333 - Kimler

9/29/2009 3:59:36 PM

Genome Science

GN 415


hands down

9/29/2009 4:00:57 PM

PE 227 with Coach Brown- made me a much better diver
MEA 449 with Dr. Eggleston
MEA 752 with Dr. Bell

both of the MEA classes were actually intellectually stimulating

9/29/2009 4:02:42 PM

^^ is that the one with the lab?

9/30/2009 10:11:10 AM

I liked Ultimate Frisbee class. I also liked Religions of the Silk Road (Schmit) and the Anthropology of South East Asia(Schiller)

9/30/2009 10:13:00 AM

I had a Non-Western Lit class that was interesting.

BUS335 with Brown was good.

A couple interesting psychology/sociology classes.

9/30/2009 10:23:01 AM

Schmit was a good professor. I wanted to do that summer trek of the Silk Road he was leading but they canceled it due to border fighting in Afghanistan

9/30/2009 10:24:54 AM

both Biochem 451 and 453. I guess both the labs (452 and 454) were also enjoyable!

9/30/2009 10:26:04 AM

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"To this die I still hope she was being sarcastic... but I'm afraid she wasn't."

I somehow started reading this with an australian accent when i got to the word die

she probably did it to stir the class up a bit...

anyone take music classes at state? i wish they had a blues class

9/30/2009 10:29:16 AM

One thing that UW does that's really cool, and I wish NCSU did it too, are these life enhancement courses. Really they're "learn cool shit for the sake of learning cool shit" classes. You don't get credits for them, but if you're enrolled full time they're free. They had stuff like digital photography, chocolate and wine tasting, Thai cooking, camping. I was envious when my friend would tell me which class he was taking each semester.

9/30/2009 10:37:59 AM

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"Schmit was a good professor. I wanted to do that summer trek of the Silk Road he was leading but they canceled it due to border fighting in Afghanistan"

I wanted to go on that trip to china where he did his research (I can't remember the name of the caves). I think that got canceled too.
I got the vibe that maybe he was gay but OMG! I had the biggest crush ever on him. He was so smart that it would put my brain into an orgasm. I swear.

9/30/2009 10:40:38 AM

In order:

ENG 363 (19th Century British Novel), ENG 491H (Female Gothic) - because Dr. May is the best professor at State, hands down.

PS 490H (Reading & Research in Poli Sci honors)/492H (Poli Sci honors thesis) because Dr Ozturk is the man [no homo].

I'm in ENG 406 (Modernism) now and it'll probably be added to the list soon because Dr. Halpern is also the man [no homo].

[Edited on September 30, 2009 at 6:19 PM. Reason : in order]

9/30/2009 6:18:07 PM

Figgins is a good PS professor if he's still there. I also enjoyed Munoz, who is gone, and Mitin.

9/30/2009 6:19:06 PM

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"I somehow started reading this with an australian accent when i got to the word die "

hahaha oops.. I meant day guess I had killin infants on the brain

9/30/2009 6:24:03 PM

either ece492k (i think it was k, the one wth lasers and shit) and ece492n, nanoelectronics with misra.

9/30/2009 6:24:18 PM

Favorite Ass at NCSU - Adriana de Silva

9/30/2009 6:50:09 PM

ANITA FLICK

9/30/2009 6:54:08 PM

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"PS 490H (Reading & Research in Poli Sci honors)/492H (Poli Sci honors thesis) because Dr Ozturk is the man [no homo]."

Ali Ozturk? I know him personally. He's a good friend of the family, we know him through NCSU and the Divan center, a Turkish-American cultural understanding center. His wife can cook a mean baklava, lulz.

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"a batshit insane prof. I think the most memorable part of that class that I had was when one day she tried explaining to us that it should be ok to kill mentally retarded infants, but of course the parents aren't going to let you do that."

wow, yeah she was probably just fucking with your heads, trying to get some passion out of her slepy class, lulz.

9/30/2009 7:20:01 PM

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"anyone take music classes at state? i wish they had a blues class"

I took a History of Jazz class. It was all music majors except for me, I believe.

We watched a video of Louis Armstrong dressed up as Tarzan, and his band dressed up as monkeys. And bubbles. There was a bubble machine blowing bubbles around them as they played. Tables of white people in tuxedos and formal wear littered the foreground. Louis bore his typical grin.

After the clip, the professor stopped the tape and started asking questions about what we noticed about the music. People raised their hands and answered his questions. I raised my hand, and noobishly noobed, "Uuuuhhhh, he was dressed up as Tarzan, and his band was dressed as monkeys."

And the professor was like, "Yes?"

And I was like, "Isn't that, like, really racist?" And the professor dismissed me, explaining that it was a different time back then.

I dropped the class. You can't teach no mother fucking jazz without talking bout the struggle!

9/30/2009 7:47:08 PM

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"she tried explaining to us that it should be ok to kill mentally retarded infants, but of course the parents aren't going to let you do that. I don't think I've ever met someone who truly advocated for infanticide"

it's just a matter of viewing the situation objectively, without the prejudices of our time

personally I'm not in favor of killing retarded infants, but I'm sort of on the fence about hideously deformed children

I mean, if they're gonna grow up and be ostracized because they have horrible growths on their face or something, it might be more humane just to kill 'em right after they're born

9/30/2009 8:56:35 PM

whoooaahhhh elkaybie

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"I also really enjoyed a Kubrick and Altman film class."

This was the Prammagiore class I took... I have never been able to find a copy of Brewster McCloud!!!

[Edited on September 30, 2009 at 10:08 PM. Reason : long day]

9/30/2009 10:08:14 PM

oh yeah, I absolutely loved Film and Literature!

10/1/2009 12:43:53 AM