I'm an ME and need to take a literature class. I need it to involve the least amount of effort possible. Any classes or Professors I should seek out/avoid? Thanks for the help.

10/11/2007 12:48:25 PM

eng 208

10/11/2007 12:52:48 PM

the lower the number the better off you are

10/11/2007 1:08:26 PM

Ok Bateman or Joffe. I was also contemplating ENG 252 with Stamper because the authorsa were the most interesting. Any problems with this? Thanks for the replies too!

10/11/2007 1:28:23 PM

i had bateman and it was easy. he was pretty entertaining too. i think i took him for 252? either way it was a decent lit course for an ME like myself

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10/11/2007 1:29:17 PM

I had Stamper for 208 during the summer. He expected us to be able to do everything in a summer session that is done in a semester. Also, he gives a reading quiz every day and grades you on quality of your input in class.

10/12/2007 10:00:59 AM

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"I'm an ME and need to take a literature class. I need it to involve the least amount of effort possible"

i swear, you people.

now thats just pathetic.

this is why i hate engineers.

10/12/2007 2:16:57 PM

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" He expected us to be able to do everything in a summer session that is done in a semester."

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10/12/2007 2:37:35 PM

.just take it at a community college over summer, you will have to write like 3 short ass essays and you will be done with it. I took it at Central Piedmont Community College and had three 3 page essays (double spaced). Got an A+, easiest shit i have ever done.

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10/12/2007 3:39:30 PM

this thread makes me sad.

because i'm a mechanical engineer who wished he'd been able to take more lit classes in college

10/12/2007 4:13:32 PM

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"i swear, you people. now thats just pathetic. this is why i hate engineers."

why? We became engineers so we didn't have to do much reading or writing. You wouldn't want to take a hard engineering class if you weren't an engineer.

10/12/2007 7:14:03 PM

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"We became engineers so we didn't have to do much reading or writing. You wouldn't want to take a hard engineering class if you weren't an engineer."

*CARL FACE*

jesus.

thats sad.

how much more anti-intellectual can a person get?

10/12/2007 8:07:58 PM

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"*CARL FACE* jesus. thats sad. how much more anti-intellectual can a person get?"

10/12/2007 8:27:33 PM

TWW is getting filled with more and more worthless people that post worthless and useless information everyday...answer the question or just shut the fuck up

10/12/2007 10:46:25 PM

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"why? We became engineers so we didn't have to do much reading or writing. You wouldn't want to take a hard engineering class if you weren't an engineer."

That's some ridiculous logic. Most of the engineers I've been in engineering classes with endlessly bitch about how hard our classes are: it doesn't sound like they want to take them most of the time, either. And I certainly didn't decide to major in engineering to avoid reading and writing (which is why I'm also an English major).

10/12/2007 11:54:35 PM

Psykorage: ]TWW is getting filled with more and more worthless people that post worthless and useless information everyday...answer the question or just shut the fuck up

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uh, which question was that? you mean this one?

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"hi yall. im an engineering student. i cant read real good. i dont write none neither. so like wuts the best lit class that yall dont do nothin an just get A's. plz 2 rply thx u"

sorry, mister "psykorage from monroe who likes wrestling beaches and beer". I'm real sorry that there are people at your university who don't want to be associated with subliterate anti-intellectuals like the OP and, i presume, yourself.

go to a trade school. or take one of those Sally Struthers home correspondance classes. I dont care, just get the fuck out of my alma mater -- you people are driving down the market value of my degree.





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10/14/2007 2:02:04 AM

^ I agree.

PS:

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"everyday [sic]"

Psykorage

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10/14/2007 2:35:28 AM

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"you people"

Your hobbies consist of posting on TWW a couple hundred times a day?

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10/14/2007 1:02:24 PM

i'm an engineering student and i love reading.

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10/14/2007 3:03:42 PM

^ Man Woman bites dog.

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10/15/2007 3:27:13 AM

Ok. If you had to take our course load, you would want an easy break too.
http://www.mae.ncsu.edu/pdfs/14ME036.pdf
Its not that we hate to read. It’s because we don't have time to waste.

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"go to a trade school."

I have never heard such stupid shit. really? are you serious? WE aren't intellectuals! really? come on!
This is that same stupid rhetoric that you all tell yourself when we have jobs after graduation, making plenty of money, and you are stuck with the "intellectual knowledge" that could have been obtained from a public library, you stupid fuck. Now try to learn Thermodynamics, physics, chemistry and all the calculus and differential equations by yourself in a public library and then tell me who the intellectuals are.

Just because you major in English doesn't mean you are an intellectual. Remember Thomas Puncheon was studying to be an engineer.

10/15/2007 8:15:52 AM

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"I had Stamper for 208 during the summer. He expected us to be able to do everything in a summer session that is done in a semester. Also, he gives a reading quiz every day and grades you on quality of your input in class."

lol why wouldnt you be able to do everything over a summer session that is done in a semester for the most part?

10/15/2007 10:59:54 AM

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"I had Stamper for 208 during the summer. He expected us to be able to do everything in a summer session that is done in a semester. Also, he gives a reading quiz every day and grades you on quality of your input in class."

lol why wouldnt you be able to do everything over a summer session that is done in a semester for the most part?

10/15/2007 10:59:54 AM

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"you are stuck with the "intellectual knowledge" that could have been obtained from a public library"

aha

10/15/2007 1:53:46 PM

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"Ok. If you had to take our course load, you would want an easy break too. http://www.mae.ncsu.edu/pdfs/14ME036.pdf Its not that we hate to read. It’s because we don't have time to waste."

Okay. I'm a ChemE and an English major. I don't desire a break from thinking or working. I'm sorry you're lazy and/or can't handle more than what's on your plate. Good for you. Just don't use it as an excuse.

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"I have never heard such stupid shit. really? are you serious? WE aren't intellectuals! really? come on! This is that same stupid rhetoric that you all tell yourself when we have jobs after graduation, making plenty of money, and you are stuck with the "intellectual knowledge" that could have been obtained from a public library, you stupid fuck. Now try to learn Thermodynamics, physics, chemistry and all the calculus and differential equations by yourself in a public library and then tell me who the intellectuals are."

I have learned thermo, physics, chemistry, calculus, Diff EQ (don't you feel like throwing in Linear Algebra? I've done that too... it's odd, we sometimes use these things called "textbooks" that you can find in libraries: you should look them up). Engineering isn't that bad, as proof by how many people still study it. Using the economic argument ("Hey, we must be smarter than you because we're paid more!") is obviously bullshit: I guess J.K. Rowling must be a hell of a lot smarter than you engineers, according to your logic.

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"Just because you major in English doesn't mean you are an intellectual. Remember Thomas Puncheon was studying to be an engineer."

It's Thomas Pynchon, you fucking ignoramus. He was an engineering student before going into the Navy, then transferring out of that department to be an English major when he returned. He worked at Boeing as a technical writer. Then he decided to write one of the best novels ever written and has spent the last thirty years writing, not doing engineering. He's also a hell of a lot more brilliant than you or I will likely ever be.

And you're right, it doesn't mean you're an intellectual. But likewise, saying "wah wah wah, I'm too busy to take a challenging English class" nearly guarantees that you're not one.

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10/15/2007 4:08:38 PM

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"lol why wouldnt you be able to do everything over a summer session that is done in a semester for the most part?"

her comment was in regard to having to read the same material on an accelerated schedule. The in class time is the same for summer school and regular classes so inclass learning shouldn't really be different between the two. But there is less time out of class.

10/18/2007 8:24:57 PM