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- From: dlambert@eng.auburn.edu (Dave Lambert)
- Subject: Engineering Shenanigan
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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 21:00:40 GMT
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- My favorite school-type shenanigan happened on the first day of
- class in one of my electrical engineering classes. As is usual,
- on the first day, the professor hands out the syllabus and explains
- all that is on it. In this case, the professor had prepared a
- joke syllabus and it had a paragraph describing the course that
- went something like this:
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- In engineering, our major competitors are the Japanese. A major
- Japanese philosophy is "a sound mind through a sound body." With
- this in mind, you are going to take part in a special experimental
- class that has been setup in the EE department. Combined with the
- normal class work that is usually associated with this class, we
- have arranged with the ROTC department to use the drill field every
- Friday afternoon from 3:00pm to 4:00pm for an hour of extensive
- exercise. By mid-quarter, you will be expected to be able to do
- 100 situps and 50 pushups in under 10 minutes along with at least
- 10 pullups if you expect to keep a passing grade. For the second
- half of the quarter we will proceed on to such things as cross-
- country running and swimming. etc.... etc... etc...
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- No one in the class made a sound while he read this. After he was
- fininshed, there was much discussion about this and the professor
- said the only choice we had was to drop the course. After about
- 5 minutes of this question and answer session, he couldn't take
- it any longer and broke down laughing and gave out the correct
- syllabus. I still remember this one as priceless....
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