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what i mean by that is, i want to take an elective that requires minimum work with maxmium grade. any suggestions? |
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Math 100 is a great course, although schuegraf isn't teaching next year so i'm not sure how it'd be. It basically covers the simplest concepts of math......like number sets, and counting theory. |
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comp sci 100 _________________ "Remember were not a drinking team with a rugby problem!" |
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Chesty LaRue
X-Talk Pervert  Joined: 05 Jul 2006 Posts: 4166 Location: Up Yours    votes: 29 View user's profile |
music 117, you just have to show up and listen _________________ Who said that?! |
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Music 219 (Celtic Music). You do no work throughout the year, no midterms or assignments. 70% of your mark is a project, where most people who can play an instrument simply record themselves and pass it in, for full marks. People who do not play an instrument interview someone who does, record them, write a bio on them, pass it in for full marks. The other 30% is the exam ... the review he gives you for the exam, IS the exam, and if it takes you more than 20 minutes, it's cause you can't read or write. You also get to listen to some pretty influential Celtic musicians, which may appeal to some of you. Class is once a week on Tuesday night, always 1st term (I'm pretty sure anyway). |
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I'd tell you, but I hate people like you that don't challenge yourself. |
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MichaelMichaelMotorcycle wrote: I'd tell you, but I hate people like you that don't challenge yourself.
meanie. i do challenge myself, i am going into 4th year honors bio and i just want to lighten the load a bit since i will be doing research and writing a thesis throughout the year. silly boy. so quick to judge |
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tower of baubles
dean of hamburgers Joined: 24 Jan 2007 Posts: 709 Location: Antigonish, NS  votes: 9 View user's profile |
I'm guessing Art 100 or something like that. How difficult is drawing?? |
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So did I and I didn't lighten the load. I overloaded. If you're meant to be in the honors stream, show it by challenging yourself. |
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MichaelMichaelMotorcycle wrote: So did I and I didn't lighten the load. I overloaded. If you're meant to be in the honors stream, show it by challenging yourself.
WOW you are arrogant. _________________ oh shit we are out of salami |
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JonSangster
There's no boundaries for the Cylons, there's no boundaries for us!  Joined: 20 Jun 2006 Posts: 723 Location: The Annex votes: 15 View user's profile |
MichaelMichaelMotorcycle wrote: So did I and I didn't lighten the load. I overloaded. If you're meant to be in the honors stream, show it by challenging yourself. I don't know if you've thought this statement through.
_________________ Blessed Be Her Holy Hooves, May They Never be Shod I don't really work for theu.ca anymore, so you should email your questions to su_www@stfx.ca |
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She could easily be doing the same amount of work or even more than you if she took a slightly easier course because she's pouring more of herself into her other classes that she feels deserves a little more attention. Saying that makes no sense. |
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Chesty LaRue
X-Talk Pervert Joined: 05 Jul 2006 Posts: 4166 Location: Up Yours votes: 29 View user's profile |
Yeah, and who want's to be a study bug all the time anyhow? Life is all about balancing yourself. I'm sure she feels she has enough of a challenge for herself, and wants to maintain a balance. People are snowflakes, what's challenge for you, is easy for someone else, and vice versa, but I thought that everyone knew that life is perspective, and that there are no absolutes, but I guess MMM is too busy with his "challenging snobbery" to remember that. _________________ Who said that?! |
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Whoa, settle down. That wasn't an arrogant statement at all, I was just replying with more of the same. My point was that I don't get this idea of taking easy courses. You're only harming yourself in the end. Just take something you're interested in and things will work out. The idea of being in the honours stream is that you are either capable of a harder workload, or you're really interested in the subject area and would like to try your hand at research, right? So all I am saying is don't understand why you would want to take easy courses on purpose, it is defeating the purpose sort of. Hate was a strong word, so was my response. Sorry, I honestly was just trying to lend my advice, not be a prick. |
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Chesty LaRue
X-Talk Pervert Joined: 05 Jul 2006 Posts: 4166 Location: Up Yours votes: 29 View user's profile |
I apologize for my hastiness and rudeness. Way to make a classy reply MMM. _________________ Who said that?! |
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tower of baubles wrote: I'm guessing Art 100 or something like that. How difficult is drawing??
Not difficult. You don't have to be able to draw well to get a resonable mark (ie. 75). There are some assignments but they're relatively easy. |
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snoopychick
Professor Bob. S. Quigley  Joined: 05 Jul 2006 Posts: 518 Location: The Great Beyond votes: 8 View user's profile |
MichaelMichaelMotorcycle wrote: Whoa, settle down. That wasn't an arrogant statement at all, I was just replying with more of the same.
My point was that I don't get this idea of taking easy courses. You're only harming yourself in the end. Just take something you're interested in and things will work out. The idea of being in the honours stream is that you are either capable of a harder workload, or you're really interested in the subject area and would like to try your hand at research, right? So all I am saying is don't understand why you would want to take easy courses on purpose, it is defeating the purpose sort of. Hate was a strong word, so was my response. Sorry, I honestly was just trying to lend my advice, not be a prick. I would have to say I agree.......regardless of how prickish like your comment came accross....I also dislike people who are constantly trying to find easier courses.... I think it is sad that people are more concerned over taking courses that will get them higher marks so as to get further after university than they are about stimulating their minds and actually learning the stuff.......sure med school applications are hard to come by and an art class elective may be the difference between acceptance into harvard or rejection.....but....with that being said, I sure as hell would rather my doctor be the kind of person who took an elective in something that interested him/her than take an art course just so they could slack off!!!! _________________ I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art. - Kahlil Gibran |
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Troublemaker
Xtalk Artist in Residence  Joined: 29 Jun 2006 Posts: 1936 Location: Your Mom's House votes: 15 View user's profile |
there's a difference between trying to constantly find an easy course and trying to find one course to balance out a heavy workload you plan to dedicate yourself to. Taking a harder course in your last year just to prove to yourself you can can backfire. I almost didn't graduate because I sucked out at a 300 level philosophy course. A first year asking for easy courses bugs me. A 4th year honors student doing so is a rather different situation, I think. And lets be clear, lower workload is not always the case in art courses. And also, lower workload doesn't always mean less of a learning experience. Art history wasn't overly taxing when it came to papers, but I learned more about art in that course than I did about philosophy in my ethics course. _________________ The village has to take responsibility for its idiot. |
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gerg
My vertical leap is beyond all measurement.  Joined: 31 Jul 2006 Posts: 778 votes: 9 View user's profile |
Troublemaker wrote: there's a difference between trying to constantly find an easy course and trying to find one course to balance out a heavy workload you plan to dedicate yourself to.
I suspected the 300 level philosophy course was Ethics. That class was deceptively difficult Taking a harder course in your last year just to prove to yourself you can can backfire. I almost didn't graduate because I sucked out at a 300 level philosophy course. A first year asking for easy courses bugs me. A 4th year honors student doing so is a rather different situation, I think. And lets be clear, lower workload is not always the case in art courses. And also, lower workload doesn't always mean less of a learning experience. Art history wasn't overly taxing when it came to papers, but I learned more about art in that course than I did about philosophy in my ethics course. 
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Troublemaker
Xtalk Artist in Residence Joined: 29 Jun 2006 Posts: 1936 Location: Your Mom's House votes: 15 View user's profile |
nope, the 300 level course was...heck I don't actually remember. Looking at the syllabus I'm thinking it was 351 & 352. I took ethics 2nd year and that totally blew. _________________ The village has to take responsibility for its idiot. |
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