wombat@uicsl.UUCP (04/27/84)
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uicsl!wombat Apr 27 13:08:00 1984
Truth. The U. of Ill. (>40,000) has a system almost exactly like that
described for the U. of Vermont. I can't believe a large University
would really make people run around all over campus. ugh.
On vocation vs. education, I thought I was coming here for an
education. I went into engineering because it sounded the most
interesting, not even realizing how salable engineering degrees
were becoming. But, my department (Aero & Astro Eng.) requires
134 hours for a bachelors degree (more than any other dept. in
engineering), and only about 6 of those hours are purely elective.
I had an advisor who just gave me funny looks when I wanted to
sign up for linguistics classes over and above the number
required for the social sciences requirement. His idea was
just take two sociology classes ("easy A's") and try and
graduate earlier and forget about taking all these extraneous
courses. It took a while to convince I really wanted to take
random classes.
Wombat
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