OT: Annual Back to School Thread
by Merope on Aug 24, 2011 7:24 PM PDT
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For the Students:
What's your school?
What's your major, if any?
What year?
Extracurricular Activities?
Class you are most/least looking forward to this term?
For the Teachers:
Grade/Age/Subject?
Years to Retirement?
Any coaching or extra curricular clubs/activities?
In General:
Help the n00bs out with a campus hint. Best parking, cleanest bathrooms, closest coffee etc...
(geez sometimes getting to 75 words is a strain on the brain!)
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That would cut into your posting time, though.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
Bandwagons are fun- that's why people get on them in the first place.
by natteringnabob on Aug 24, 2011 10:21 PM PDT up reply actions
Heh i don't go back to school till Sep 26th...
but I’m gonna be workin on college apps anyways.
De Anza Community College
BusinessAdmin/Econ (Depends on where I’m applying)
2nd Year
Volunteer some at the 2nd harvest food bank
Lookin forward to Film/Tv
Not lookin forward to Stats.
School: Gunn High School
Year: Senior
Extracurricular: Choir, volunteer work at Coyote Point museum and zoo
Favorite class: Choir
I'm just a simple Giants fan trying to make my way in the universe.
by Tim Lincecum's Bong on Aug 24, 2011 7:32 PM PDT reply actions
ooooh I like Coyote Point. Whenever we have to stay over in the Bay Area we stay at the Best Western there, so I can go see the aminals!
Awesome
If you go on the weekends maybe I’ll see you
I'm just a simple Giants fan trying to make my way in the universe.
by Tim Lincecum's Bong on Aug 24, 2011 7:35 PM PDT up reply actions
Name?
I'm just a simple Giants fan trying to make my way in the universe.
by Tim Lincecum's Bong on Aug 25, 2011 3:50 PM PDT up reply actions
Holy crap
He’s in like 3 classes with me
I'm just a simple Giants fan trying to make my way in the universe.
by Tim Lincecum's Bong on Aug 25, 2011 8:35 PM PDT up reply actions
He’s been* in like 3 classes with me
That would be kind of wierd given I’m only in 5 classes this year
I'm just a simple Giants fan trying to make my way in the universe.
by Tim Lincecum's Bong on Aug 25, 2011 8:37 PM PDT up reply actions
It happens
I’m in all four of one of my friend’s classes.
"Lee pitches...Renteria hits a high drive, deep left-center field, David Murphy going back, he's on the warning track—it is...go-one!"
My Freshman year of HS
I had all 7 of my classes with the same kid
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by Gobroks on Aug 25, 2011 11:01 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
Cool!
He’s almost as big a Giants fan as I am.
Currently being weaned off an anti-bandwagon fan attitude. We should give the newbies the benefit of the doubt, initially, and try to bring them closer towards major fandom.
I managed to end up with 6/8 of the same classes with a friend of mine a few years ago.
Seth Rosin can hit the side of a barn with a baseball. From space.
Giants baseball: We're stupid enough to WIN that (TM)
It appears I have a mutual friend with him on Facebook. Also, Russ Ortiz is one of your favorite athletes. I find this hilarious.
"Lee pitches...Renteria hits a high drive, deep left-center field, David Murphy going back, he's on the warning track—it is...go-one!"
Me?
Well, it’s true, but I don’t think I have that listed…
I'm just a simple Giants fan trying to make my way in the universe.
by Tim Lincecum's Bong on Aug 25, 2011 8:53 PM PDT up reply actions
dregarx
"Lee pitches...Renteria hits a high drive, deep left-center field, David Murphy going back, he's on the warning track—it is...go-one!"
It is indeed hilarious.
He was just the first Giants player that my young mind decided was really cool. For reasons I no longer remember.
And I figured, what is there to hide? But it is quite funny, given the quality of the other players on the list.
HEY TLB
Hey – is Billy Liberatore your choir teacher?
I went to school in PA with him (we sang in choir together back in the day!)
Torres IS the magic bean. - Johnny Disaster
by SituationalLefty on Aug 28, 2011 6:47 PM PDT up reply actions
What’s your school? No longer Derek Lee Memorial High School anymore, sadly. I’m sorry gallo. I’ll miss beating up on John Bowker High.
What’s your major, if any? N/A
What year? Sophomore
Extracurricular Activities? Three sport athletes FTW! Soccer, Basketball, and Baseball (Already playing soccer, really hoping to make varsity bball this year a year ahead of schedule, and baseball varsity is pretty much already happening)
Class you are most/least looking forward to this term? Psychology has always fascinated me, so I’ll go with that. Physics sounds lame.
Adopted Giant: Ryan Verdugo. The next Javier Lopez.
goldenbearlair.com
yet again
I am deceived by a high school student! There are a lot of very bright HS students here. It’s fun to watch as you all move on to college, although often times (hi dregarx!) college freshmen seem to be too busy to hang out here much.
Good luck with varsity basketball. Take physics eventually at some point in HS.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
Bandwagons are fun- that's why people get on them in the first place.
by natteringnabob on Aug 24, 2011 10:25 PM PDT up reply actions
good luck as always!
Hope you get whatever classes you need… and glad you got your first year behind you.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
Bandwagons are fun- that's why people get on them in the first place.
by natteringnabob on Aug 25, 2011 7:13 AM PDT up reply actions
I think you mentioned it early in the summer, but I’ve forgotten where you are now, MadBum. Still Sac area?
He is the world's most annoying rooster.
by gallo del cielo on Aug 25, 2011 10:16 AM PDT up reply actions
Teacher
English
Cuesta College (San Luis Obispo County)
Retirement far enough in the distance that I’m sure by the time I get there my pension will be a firm handshake and a bouquet of calla lillies.
Hitting 74 on the radar gun but hitting my spots.
by VidaWantsYourCar on Aug 24, 2011 7:59 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
Student
American University in D.C.
Journalism major (god help me)
Will probably finish in 3 years, so class of 2013.
I’ll probably get some kind of job or internship. As you can tell, I’m super enthused about this prospect.
I’m really looking forward to 3 of my classes – “Reporting,” “Civil War and Reconstruction,” and “Andean Culture and Mythology.”
In the mountains/there you feel free/I read, much of the night/and go south in the winter. - T.S. Eliot
Adopted Giant: Daryl "Dealio" Maday - Plodding along with a 4.94 ERA in Richmond. This Squirrel won't be flying anytime soon, sadly.
An AU kid!
What kind of wonk are you? WonkWonk.
Gigante. Campeón. Pumpkin. Andrés Torres.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
That marketing campaign makes me so very ashamed. Everyone here hates it except the people who decided to initiate it. I guess we’re stuck with it for better or worse. Much worse.
You live in the DC area?
In the mountains/there you feel free/I read, much of the night/and go south in the winter. - T.S. Eliot
Adopted Giant: Daryl "Dealio" Maday - Plodding along with a 4.94 ERA in Richmond. This Squirrel won't be flying anytime soon, sadly.
I just graduated from GW this past year.
Gigante. Campeón. Pumpkin. Andrés Torres.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
AU’s a nice campus but I’ve always thought that it sucked to be so far away from the metro — doesn’t it make you feel disconnected from the rest of DC?
MY DAD WAS WRONG!
MY BOY NEEDS TO THROW HARDER!
Well, the walk to our Metro stop is only 15 minutes. It can seem inconvenient at times, but I mostly enjoy it. We also have a free shuttle that runs from campus to the Metro stop about every 5 minutes, and I take that a lot.
We’re definitely further out than GW or G-Town, and it would be nice to be closer, but I really do get into DC pretty often.
In the mountains/there you feel free/I read, much of the night/and go south in the winter. - T.S. Eliot
Adopted Giant: Daryl "Dealio" Maday - Plodding along with a 4.94 ERA in Richmond. This Squirrel won't be flying anytime soon, sadly.
Did you know that the reason AU bought that Catholic Girls school next to the Tenleytown Metro was so they could officially get their name on that Metro stop. The main campus is too far away for naming rights according to the Metro system regulations.
MY DAD WAS WRONG!
MY BOY NEEDS TO THROW HARDER!
I didn’t know that, though it doesn’t surprise me at all. Taking extensive, elaborate steps to circumvent the problem instead of just solving it – the AU way!
In the mountains/there you feel free/I read, much of the night/and go south in the winter. - T.S. Eliot
Adopted Giant: Daryl "Dealio" Maday - Plodding along with a 4.94 ERA in Richmond. This Squirrel won't be flying anytime soon, sadly.
I'm a nothing!!!!!!!!!!!
For the first time since I was like 4 years old, back in the dinosaur days, I am neither a teacher nor a student. Weird.
That should change sometime soon.
Ah. sorry to heat that.
I hope things turn around for you.
Better to be a Giants fan than an Athletic supporter!
Well this was planned. I quit before the Mr. had a nervous breakdown over me having a nervous breakdown. We’re planning to move and I didn’t want to get attached to a class and leave them. I also didn’t want to deal with the administrative BS anymore.
I’m looking for something in speech language now, though I’ve applied for some other postions here and there. I should have something by the end of September. Mr. Merope says I don’t have to find something til January.
That's cool.
Again, hoping things come together in a way that is best for the sanity of all involved.
Better to be a Giants fan than an Athletic supporter!
Senior at Lynbrook High. Playing football and baseball. Also doing Model United Nations. Looking forward to English; the class has been really fun so far. I’m not dreading Physics, but it looks to be my hardest class. Mostly I’m looking forward to Vancouver and Berkeley Model United Nations. Those ought to be the highlights of the year.
"Lee pitches...Renteria hits a high drive, deep left-center field, David Murphy going back, he's on the warning track—it is...go-one!"
I'll have to ask around
and see if I know anyone who can make sure to get you stuck with England (no, not the UK) in Model UN.
And I’m jealous of Vancouver, unless you mean Vancouver, WA.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
Bandwagons are fun- that's why people get on them in the first place.
by natteringnabob on Aug 24, 2011 10:27 PM PDT up reply actions
No England, although I did get UK at Davis last May. It was fun playing the heel.
It’s the other Vancouver, although I have been to the one in Washington. It wasn’t all that interesting.
"Lee pitches...Renteria hits a high drive, deep left-center field, David Murphy going back, he's on the warning track—it is...go-one!"
exactly
unless you live in Vancouver WA and work in Portland (the no-tax fantasy of many), no reason to go there. Unless they build a stadium for the A’s there someday, which they won’t.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
Bandwagons are fun- that's why people get on them in the first place.
by natteringnabob on Aug 25, 2011 8:39 PM PDT up reply actions
2nd year teaching High School PE in Santa Rosa
50+ years till retirement
Currently coaching the Varsity girls Soccer Team and looking to improve on last years 1-12-1 record.
Our girls team kicks butt. 1st in NorCal last year.
I still teach English and Spanish at Rio Americano High in Sacramento. I can’t even think about retirement, though I guess I’ll have to take some extended time if the oncologist recommends some chemo this month.
He is the world's most annoying rooster.
by gallo del cielo on Aug 25, 2011 7:40 AM PDT up reply actions
I study things
University of Oregon, in Eugene. (Moving up in the world!)
Political Science major, I’m the next Carville, sign me up!
I’m a Sophomore, so the class of 2014.
Extra-curriculars are including debate, maybe broadcasting if they let me in the door, and I’ll be trying out for the baseball team in the spring after a 6 year break from the sport. >_>
The class I’m looking forward to the most? At the moment, I guess PS 260, which is a class on Public Policy.
"But at this time of year, two plus two doesn't always add up to eight. Sometimes, it equals four." - Geoff Baker, Mariners beat writer.
Is it hard to walk on there? Don’t they have a really good baseball program?
Adopted Father of Marc Kroon. He better make the roster.
Not really
The program has been around for like three years? They’ve produced some first rounders recently, but really nobody to write home about. A lot of their recruits got signed away too, so there’s always a chance.
"But at this time of year, two plus two doesn't always add up to eight. Sometimes, it equals four." - Geoff Baker, Mariners beat writer.
good luck!
That was quite the story in OR when they made their run to Omaha. Funny to see Oregonians interested in baseball!
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
Bandwagons are fun- that's why people get on them in the first place.
by natteringnabob on Aug 25, 2011 7:15 AM PDT up reply actions
I've been secretly hoping Portland gets the A's
but it’ll never happen, though Moneyball would definitely be a hipster draw I’m sure.
"But at this time of year, two plus two doesn't always add up to eight. Sometimes, it equals four." - Geoff Baker, Mariners beat writer.
yeah, not happening
they turned their only ballpark into a soccer stadium, so although I’m not a stadium financing professional I conclude from this that they won’t be making a play for the A’s anytime soon.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
Bandwagons are fun- that's why people get on them in the first place.
by natteringnabob on Aug 25, 2011 10:33 PM PDT up reply actions
Yup, you nailed it.
Timbers are drawing like crazy though, so I guess it was a smart choice. Plus the economy here is HORRIBLE, a stadium would have to be almost entirely privately financed.
"But at this time of year, two plus two doesn't always add up to eight. Sometimes, it equals four." - Geoff Baker, Mariners beat writer.
soccer sells there, for whatever reason
and as stadiums have been financed in the past, they’re mostly impossible to put together anywhere, not just PDX. Maybe Texas or somewhere, certainly not a western state.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
Bandwagons are fun- that's why people get on them in the first place.
by natteringnabob on Aug 25, 2011 10:51 PM PDT up reply actions
THIS GUY IS AN wRMACHINE
IT’S AN OBSCURE STAT YOU’VE PROBABLY NEVER HEARD OF IT
Seth Rosin can hit the side of a barn with a baseball. From space.
Giants baseball: We're stupid enough to WIN that (TM)
wRC+
Stupid hipsters fucking up my posts.
Seth Rosin can hit the side of a barn with a baseball. From space.
Giants baseball: We're stupid enough to WIN that (TM)
It’d be awesome if you make the baseball team! I <3 attending UCLA baseball games.
11/01/10
My adopted son is Steve Edlefsen.
It's an extremely long shot.
But here’s hoping…
"But at this time of year, two plus two doesn't always add up to eight. Sometimes, it equals four." - Geoff Baker, Mariners beat writer.
Student
Sophomore at U of Pacific in Stockton
Major: Sports Management
Extra Curricular: Sports Management Club and I might do some intramural sports
Class I’m most looking forward to: Public Speaking
Least looking forward to: Computers info and processing
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by Gobroks on Aug 24, 2011 10:04 PM PDT via mobile reply actions
*Computers and info processing
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by Gobroks on Aug 24, 2011 10:04 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
What does that class entail? Is it like “this is how you use Excel” or “this is how a processor works?”
11/01/10
My adopted son is Steve Edlefsen.
Idk yet
I was going to take another class in the same GE group but I had to take this one for my major
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by Gobroks on Aug 25, 2011 11:04 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
Thanks-you too
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by Gobroks on Aug 26, 2011 4:42 AM PDT via mobile up reply actions
My friend is going there for water polo. Shes a law major I think.
Carter Jurica!
"Has anyone really been for even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?"
by GrahamCrakalaka on Aug 26, 2011 1:29 AM PDT up reply actions
Oh cool-Is she in the accelerated program?
I forget the exact title but it’s the program where you can go through undergrad and law school in 6 years instead of 7
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Legal Scholars-that's what it's called
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by Gobroks on Aug 26, 2011 9:56 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
I believe so.
Carter Jurica!
"Has anyone really been for even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?"
by GrahamCrakalaka on Aug 27, 2011 5:10 PM PDT up reply actions
Cool. I wanted to get into that but I didn't meet the requirements
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by Gobroks on Aug 27, 2011 5:38 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
Student
I’m a 2nd year masters in writing student at the school of the art institute of chicago. I started half way through my first year so I should be finished by Christmas! Exciting and nerve racking! Hopefully after that I’ll be heading back to the bay, which I miss more everyday!
Mr. Flibble is very cross.
by Keenlow on Aug 24, 2011 10:12 PM PDT via mobile reply actions
Student!
School: University of Southern California
Major: Communications
Year: Junior
Extracurricular Activities: Women’s Ice Hockey, possibly Helenes (women’s spirit and service group – basically a sorority without the massive dues)
Class I’m most looking forward to: probably Comm and Technology (COMM 202)
Class I’m least looking forward to: the junior writing class (WRIT 340). It’s been three days into the semester and I already had to write a paper.
Fear the Fin - NEEDS MORE DOVES
Student!
Sophomore Class of 2014 Tufts University
Major: International Relations/Economics
Extracurriculars: Resident Advisor and a bunch of other weird clubs
Class I’m most looking forward to? International Trade (EC161)
Least looking forward to? Linear Algebra.
Adopted Father of Marc Kroon. He better make the roster.
I took lower division linear algebra and it was the hardest math class I’ve taken in my life. Then I took upper division linear algebra and got a 98% on the final while barely studying and not really paying attention in class (I have solitaire on my phone!). I’m not sure what to make of that.
Seth Rosin can hit the side of a barn with a baseball. From space.
Giants baseball: We're stupid enough to WIN that (TM)
I've got upper div linalg this semester.
I did OK in the spring when I took it lower-div (somehow almost typed that “lover-div”). Enjoyed it pretty well.
We’ll see.
I pretty much hit the will with linear alg and matrix theory as an undergrad math major. Did not see the point. Later when i took statistics I saw the point a little more.
Marvin Barrios, come on I'll show you your bedroom. Don't stay on the phone too long to Panama, please.
by foothillsfan on Aug 25, 2011 9:29 AM PDT up reply actions
LOL ME
This will be my 4th year in school and I’m class of 2014.
"He knocks a stake through the heart of the Cardinals! The Cardinals are dead! The Giants are going to the World Series!!!" -Jon Miller
It's Posey time!!
My Adopted Squirrel: Heath Hembree
Student!
Second Year Medical Student at UC Davis
Hobbies besides my sports addiction (Giants)… likely more sports(Basketball, Golf, Intramurals)… and then policy.
There is at least one other Davis second year that lurks around here, I wonder if he’ll see this.
Adoptive father of Caleb Hous.... hous... housyourdaddy?
Grad student/TA
First year PhD in History at Arizona State University. Enjoying all my classes
Hobbies: whoaboy, I don’t have a lot of free time at this point. I’m hoping to be able to get back to the gym consistently at least
btw, it’s kind of hot down here.
Don't think he can cut it in the bigs? Brock Bond will be the bigger man and walk walk walk away.
wow
What are you working on? I don’t know much about ASU’s collections/programs.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
Bandwagons are fun- that's why people get on them in the first place.
by natteringnabob on Aug 25, 2011 7:17 AM PDT up reply actions
Well, I specialize mainly in the history of California (trying to broaden it to Western US history) and African American history. There is an African Americanist here I’m studying under, plus several faculty members who do work in California history or race/ethnicity history, so it was a good fit for me.
Don't think he can cut it in the bigs? Brock Bond will be the bigger man and walk walk walk away.
verrry interesting
odd to think of Californiaists at ASU. Are you teaching much this year?
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
Bandwagons are fun- that's why people get on them in the first place.
by natteringnabob on Aug 26, 2011 7:19 AM PDT up reply actions
The Californiaists are Western US historians
But they focus on California. I’m only grading this year, so it shouldn’t be too bad.
Don't think he can cut it in the bigs? Brock Bond will be the bigger man and walk walk walk away.
Sophomore at Cal (Go Bears!). Playing viola in the orchestra again and hopefully I can get to the practice rooms some more to play the piano.
Very much looking forward to my O-Chem and Microeconomics classes (which start tomorrow!), as both professors have good reputations. Only other class is Physics, so I guess I’m not looking forward to that? I got my drudgery classes out of the way this summer, so it’s looking like a fun semester.
Matthew Francis is supposed to be reeeeaaally good
I’m glad about that, because I had some stinkers freshman year.
I’ve heard he’s really good, too! His 112A class was the one right before my physio class last fall. He always seemed to stay as long as he could after lecture to answer questions from students. Also, he’s pretty involved with the Chemistry of Cooking DeCal that he sponsors from what I remember.
Wheeeeeeeeeeee.
student
Second year at Cal (hi dregarx), intended MCB major. Activities this year include getting a research position somewhere, perhaps more sportswriting for the Daily Cal, and continuing to learn how to play guitar once I retrieve it from home next week.
I’m looking forward to my German class which focuses on propaganda in Nazi Germany. Not particularly dreading anything this semester, but I’m anticipating that physics will be the most difficult class, though I really do like physics.
Senior at UCLA (4th year), planning to graduate this spring
Majoring in philosophy and mathematics/economics
Does this site count as an extracurricular activity? How about OOTP and MLB 2K10 and watching games, then a few months of waiting for baseball to come back while I refresh MLBTR a billion times?
There was supposed to be a class in medical ethics this quarter which I thought was going to be awesome, and then they canceled it. So fuck the registrar/that professor. I’ve got a class on Kant that’s taught by one of the premier authorities on him, though.
Seth Rosin can hit the side of a barn with a baseball. From space.
Giants baseball: We're stupid enough to WIN that (TM)
by quincy0191 on Aug 25, 2011 12:33 AM PDT reply actions 2 recs
wait a second...
I’m a senior at UCLA, planning to graduate this spring.
I’m also majoring in philosophy, but minoring in math. Though, I entered as math/econ — it’s a rather sizable major, impressive that you’re doubling that with philosophy.
I also played tons of OOTP this summer
I also was going to take that medical ethics course. I’m also in that Kant course. See you there? hah
What happens to the ducks on the pond? Well, Holden, here in SF, they're stranded.
They changed it last year
I don’t really know if it’s better or worse now, but it got changed in fall 2010 so what you saw may not be what the requirements are now. Since I haven’t declared yet I have to meet the new requirements.
I doubt you’ll see me in the Kant class, though. Who goes to class when there’s sleeping to be done?
Seth Rosin can hit the side of a barn with a baseball. From space.
Giants baseball: We're stupid enough to WIN that (TM)
Having some cognitive dissonance
This is the first year of my life that I’m not going to school in the fall. Very weird.
Gigante. Campeón. Pumpkin. Andrés Torres.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
sorry
Maybe this will be compensated somewhat by not having to study for exams at Thanksgiving/Christmas? Otherwise, I got nuthin’.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
Bandwagons are fun- that's why people get on them in the first place.
by natteringnabob on Aug 25, 2011 7:19 AM PDT up reply actions
Still in DC! Working!
At a polling firm based in Alexandria. I’m in the region at least through the 2012 elections, and probably longer.
Gigante. Campeón. Pumpkin. Andrés Torres.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
A job! Well done. That’s both the best and worst of all possible college outcomes. I’ve always had a vague yen to live in Old Town, though I don’t suppose I ever will at this point. And really, not yen enough to drag me away from Capital Hill obviously.
MY DAD WAS WRONG!
MY BOY NEEDS TO THROW HARDER!
Old town is nice, but I can't afford to live here
I’m actually with family at the moment and looking for a place somewhere in DC to live in a few months. Hard to find <$900 housing in the district.
Gigante. Campeón. Pumpkin. Andrés Torres.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
Yes it sure is. You know in the early to mid-90s I lived in a three-bedroom, three story house in Adams Morgan/Mt. Pleasant area with a two-car garage underneath and the most we ever paid for that place was $1300 (started out paying $900). One of my roommates ended up being offered that place in I think ‘98 for $200,000 and didn’t take it. Now it’s worth around $1.5 mil.
MY DAD WAS WRONG!
MY BOY NEEDS TO THROW HARDER!
Yikes, too bad.
Regardless, the important thing is that the 2012 MCC DC meetup is on.
Gigante. Campeón. Pumpkin. Andrés Torres.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
Professor!
Teach Theatre History, Theory, and Playwriting. On leave this year, to finish a book and an anthology of plays.
Fulfilling your Gus Benusa needs since 2009!
That’s awesome. Where are you and what’s your book about? I have a friend who did his PhD on Sam Shepard’s work in the 60s, aided mostly by a huge treasure trove of Shepard’s papers in the UVa library.
MY DAD WAS WRONG!
MY BOY NEEDS TO THROW HARDER!
Naturalism
I’m interested in the neo-naturalist movement, guys like David Mamet and Neil Labute. It’s called Zola’s Legacy. Looking at the Duplass brothers, mumble-core movies . . .
I’m at Brigham Young University, in Utah. I love Shepard—I think I may even know the book you’re talking about!
Fulfilling your Gus Benusa needs since 2009!
by Giantsfan4life on Aug 27, 2011 11:40 AM PDT up reply actions
hey, I'm both of those things!
As a student:
School: (sigh) Florida State University
Major: I’m getting my PhD in English. Literature. Mostly I do African American Lit and Postcolonial Lit.
Year: Second year PhD
Extracurricular activities: lolz. I’m a full-time grad student, I teach, I’m married, AND I have two young kids. You think I have time for that stuff?
Class most looked forward to: One of my classes is going to be on slave narratives and neo-slave narratives. I’ve already read a lot of the books, but I’m looking forward to the class.
As a teacher:
Grade/age/subject: I teach freshmen comp. Hopefully moving on to upper-division Literature in the Spring, though I’ll still probably come back to comp from time to time, since I do really like teaching it.
Years to retirement: hahahahahahhahaha
Any coaching or extra curricular clubs/activities?: Again, I say: ha.
Glad to have the World Series win, but still waiting on my Kim Batiste bobblehead. GET OFF YOUR HANDS, GIANTS BRASS!!!!
Adopted Giant: Dave Dravecky, starting pitcher of the greatest regular-season game I've ever attended.
African American and Postcolonial Lit. No wonder you’re always so angry.
MY DAD WAS WRONG!
MY BOY NEEDS TO THROW HARDER!
I HATE WHITEY
Glad to have the World Series win, but still waiting on my Kim Batiste bobblehead. GET OFF YOUR HANDS, GIANTS BRASS!!!!
Adopted Giant: Dave Dravecky, starting pitcher of the greatest regular-season game I've ever attended.
I’m in the second and final year of my MFA in creative writing/fiction at Mills College. My extracurricular activities include figuring out how to avoid driving on days when I’m not at school. I get up early most mornings to write, which is a habit I’m still training myself to be on point with.
I’m also teaching, of a sort, as a TA in the freshwoman comp program. I do 8 hours a week of individual instruction with the students, plus normal classtime. In fact, I will meet the class for the first time in almost exactly two hours.
I have worksheets to print.
Once more, coming to you by proxy.
To be more specific, I don’t teach the normal classtime. I sit in the normal classtime and participate as I see fit. But I need to be there to, you know, know what the students are learning and stuff.
Once more, coming to you by proxy.
by howtheyscored on Aug 25, 2011 9:03 AM PDT up reply actions
Interesting
I wish I had a TA for my Comp classes. It’d certainly allow for more of that creative writing I went to grad school for and am going to be paying out the ass for for many, many years to come (barring the old publishing/movie-rights miracle).
How is the Mills program, btw? I haven’t heard much since leaving the west coast for grad school.
The principal supporting business now is rage. -- Richard Hugo
by Timorous Me on Aug 31, 2011 10:49 PM PDT up reply actions
The Mills program is really pretty wonderful. The only downside is the price. Which, admittedly, is not an insignificant side.
Once more, coming to you by proxy.
by howtheyscored on Sep 1, 2011 9:07 AM PDT up reply actions
Or, I would have been in class today, had I made it past Vallejo.
Once more, coming to you by proxy.
by howtheyscored on Aug 25, 2011 1:09 PM PDT up reply actions
Are they called freshwomen at Mills?
"Lee pitches...Renteria hits a high drive, deep left-center field, David Murphy going back, he's on the warning track—it is...go-one!"
I’m not sure if it’s official, but I hear it all the time.
Once more, coming to you by proxy.
by howtheyscored on Aug 25, 2011 10:39 PM PDT up reply actions
part time JC instructor
in Geography, at Sierra College. Tho I studied urban planning.
Just 1 class. In about 2 years, will let go of this “second career”. Has been real rewarding at times to be on a campus around intellectually engaged people. One could say the same thing about MCC.
Marvin Barrios, come on I'll show you your bedroom. Don't stay on the phone too long to Panama, please.
Mr. L, checking in.
Grade/Age/Subject? 7th and 8th grade/12-14/Theater and Video Production
Years to Retirement? Ha. Retirement. That’s for people with money. At this rate, I’d say approximately 30.
Any coaching or extra curricular clubs/activities? I also put on the Fall and Spring Productions independent of my theater classes, as well as the school talent show.
Better to be a Giants fan than an Athletic supporter!
8 days until I leave for the DR
What’s your school? San Jose State University is my home university. I am studying at Universidad Iberoamericana in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, this fall. I arrive in the DR Sep 2 and I start classes Sep 5. I return to the States Dec 11.
What’s your major, if any? Global studies with an emphasis on Latin America, and a double minor in journalism (reporting/editing emphasis) and Spanish language.
What year? LOL. SJSU says I’m a senior but I have four more semesters to go after this one.
Extracurricular Activities? I’m doing a research internship in the DR where I will interview people involved in every area of baseball operations in the DR. I have some contacts lined up from ESPN Deportes, the AP, MLB’s offices down there, some people involved in educating the Dominican prospects playing in the camps. My internship coordinator had me compile a list of topics about 20 deep on things I wanted to research and they found the names for me. It’s my dream job.
Class you are most/least looking forward to this term? I have an online class at SJSU: Technology and Civilization, and two classes at UNIBE (not URIBE): Dominican History and Analysis of Current Dominican Reality. All are pretty exciting to me.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Aug 25, 2011 10:50 AM PDT reply actions
wow
you’re leaving in a week! Good luck! And glad you are not in the class-grubbing frenzy at CSUs they described in the Chronicle the other day.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
Bandwagons are fun- that's why people get on them in the first place.
by natteringnabob on Aug 25, 2011 10:57 AM PDT up reply actions
Good luck
Third-world countries suck, though I bet it’s not as bad as India.
Seth Rosin can hit the side of a barn with a baseball. From space.
Giants baseball: We're stupid enough to WIN that (TM)
DR has grown quite a bit economically and the capital city, Santo Domingo, is pretty metropolitan. I’ll be there for my entire internship and I’ve been assured I’ll be safe and taken care of as long I stay in the city. Plus they have winter ball. :)
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Aug 25, 2011 4:33 PM PDT up reply actions
Yeah
It’s not just that, though. I obviously have no idea how much experience you have abroad, but I’ve got family in India and I go there every couple of years. It’s not so much the safety issue as it is the culture shock – things are so different there it’s hard to adjust. Of course, the Caribbean is much more Western than Asia and I would assume since your last name is Martinez you have at least some experience among the Latino population considering you’re part of the Latino population.
If this is your first time out of the country, I’d say be prepared but you really can’t be. Which is why I wish you luck.
Seth Rosin can hit the side of a barn with a baseball. From space.
Giants baseball: We're stupid enough to WIN that (TM)
This is my first time going out of the country. I’m concerned that I’ll have a hard time adjusting initially. Mostly I’m worried that I won’t be able to keep up in Spanish. I can probably get by with my last name and deep tan, at least looking the part. But all I can do is try my best to communicate and focus on my studies.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Aug 25, 2011 6:01 PM PDT up reply actions
you'll do fine
you’ll be in school, it’s not like you’re hitchhiking across the country at night.
The Dominicans on the team have been the hardest for me to understand, but the immersion will kick in and soon enough you’ll have that accent too! I have to believe that will really make a difference when you come back and continue covering ballclubs.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
Bandwagons are fun- that's why people get on them in the first place.
by natteringnabob on Aug 25, 2011 6:39 PM PDT up reply actions
I’ve actually been able to understand some of what the Spanish speaking guys on the Giants say! Sometimes it goes too fast for me but I can get some of it.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Aug 25, 2011 6:51 PM PDT up reply actions
I'm sure
I find the PR accent easier to catch, Torres is pretty easy to understand but reeeeeally fast.
TBH we don’t get much chance to hear them speak in Spanish. By far my favorite part of the WS ceremony was when they let U and Torres and Rent speak in Spanish, so awesome. I always intend to listen to the KIQI call of the games but am too lazy. Maybe you’ll end up the Amy G of KIQI or Univision! I bet the SJ kids love being able to talk beisbol with you.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
Bandwagons are fun- that's why people get on them in the first place.
by natteringnabob on Aug 25, 2011 7:01 PM PDT up reply actions
De acuerdo.
The first few months in Spain were tough, and nobody slowed down for me. But if your basics are good, the comprehension ramps up pretty quickly. Dios, I don’t understand my fellow mumbling Americans a lot of the time.
He is the world's most annoying rooster.
by gallo del cielo on Aug 25, 2011 7:52 PM PDT up reply actions
Hector Sanchez was chatty with me earlier in the year.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Aug 25, 2011 8:36 PM PDT up reply actions
Ah the culture shock wasvwhat I found invigorating about living abroad.
MY DAD WAS WRONG!
MY BOY NEEDS TO THROW HARDER!
getting better at a new language—that’s an amazing “natural high”. Finding something in a foreign city, or just wandering into a fun neighborhood, or communicating an idea with somebody despite the language barrier—there’s so many things I love about getting out of the US.
Marvin Barrios, come on I'll show you your bedroom. Don't stay on the phone too long to Panama, please.
by foothillsfan on Aug 26, 2011 8:49 AM PDT up reply actions
Thanks Merope! I saw upthread that things aren’t the best for you and Mr. M but I hope things get better soon.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Aug 25, 2011 4:33 PM PDT up reply actions
Thanks, I’m pretty sure [98%] that we’ll be just fine. We’re looking forward to buying our own house if we can ever get the damn ducks to line up… they just keep wandering all over the place!
Money’s tight around the Baron household too, especially now that BFVCE and I are living together and I’m not working for three months while I’m out of the country. It’s no good, but it doesn’t always have to suck. Good luck with buying the house!
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Aug 25, 2011 4:51 PM PDT up reply actions
That sounds incredible.
In the mountains/there you feel free/I read, much of the night/and go south in the winter. - T.S. Eliot
Adopted Giant: Daryl "Dealio" Maday - Plodding along with a 4.94 ERA in Richmond. This Squirrel won't be flying anytime soon, sadly.
I’m excited. I have classes three days a week in the mornings and the rest of the time I can go to the beach. Or go to baseball games. Or get blown away by a hurricane, it seems.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Aug 25, 2011 4:34 PM PDT up reply actions
My school never stopped
Ex’pression College for Digital Arts
Motion Graphic Design
Senior. I just started my last semester a couple weeks ago. I graduate at the end of November.
I’m starting to do this “”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VJing" target="new">VJ" thing lately. It’s pretty fun. I’m also a reggae musician/producer, and I’ve got a few projects that are getting close to being able to release.
Well, after the current class ends in a couple weeks, I only have two more classes left. I guess I’m looking forward to the next class more. Final Project, where we make our reels/websites. Plus, my school is planning on sending me to the Motion conference in New Mexico during that class. The last class is what I’m least looking forward to. It’s called Social Media, and seems like a huge waste of time. It’s basically about starting a blog, twitter, and memes.
Student
School: University of California Los Angeles
Year: Two
Major: Computer Science
Extracurricular: Running, watching the Giants, watching UCLA student athletes kick USC ass.
Good class: Computer Science Lab. Writing code like a boss!
Bad class: Linear Algebra. Meh.
11/01/10
My adopted son is Steve Edlefsen.
I don’t know. But if so, I clearly got the better end of the deal growing up as a non-Lakers fan :)
11/01/10
My adopted son is Steve Edlefsen.
I would hardly call growing up a Warriors fan the better of the two scenarios
But I’m a 2nd year CS major at UCLA as well. Oh, and I’m taking Linear Algebra (33A) over summer. It’s as meh as meh gets.
Haha that is quite a coincidence! I’m probably behind you in general though because I didn’t declare until this summer and I’ve only taken CS31 so far. I have to wait until Winter for 32.
11/01/10
My adopted son is Steve Edlefsen.
GED help
My sis took the GED back in the early ‘90s she can’t find her copy, and apparently the state has basically lost all “pre-technology” era paperwork.
Anybody ever help anybody with this? Is there some kind of work around, bush to rattle, bureaucrat to threaten that we might not have thought of?
[In the meantime she’s brushing up on her math skills just in case.]
Wouldn’t the last high school that she attended have a record of this? I took the CHSPE in the 1994 (it’s like the GED, but for those not old enough to take the GED), and when I transferred to my current college, they required a copy of it. I couldn’t find mine, but the high school was able to scare up a copy.
I don’t know why they needed one. I went to community and state college before here. That should have been proof enough.
She had some medical problems and didn’t finish high school. Yesterday she called the Adult Ed Center where she had taken a prep class. The Adult Ed Center person said “Back in those days we usually sent our students to school x to take the GED.” Well school x was shut down, nobody knows quite where their records, all paper, ended up.
Wasn’t the GED administered by the College Board or somebody back then?
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
Bandwagons are fun- that's why people get on them in the first place.
by natteringnabob on Aug 25, 2011 7:45 PM PDT up reply actions
that seems weird
maybe it was different from the SAT, but schools wouldn’t have kept those records, I don’t think, just send them on to the company for scoring.
It’s possible calling again will lead to different people with different answers, you never really know. My dad needs a birth cert to renew his drivers license (yay homeland security). But his birth cert is incorrect and (duh) not many records left from 1936. So, what does the form pack ask for? A copy of his drivers’ license. Mind-numbing, and sorry your sis is dealing with it.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
Bandwagons are fun- that's why people get on them in the first place.
by natteringnabob on Aug 25, 2011 8:09 PM PDT up reply actions
Yeah, I was sent to some school up in Sacramento (I live in Vacaville) to take my exam. It was a state-run thing, if I remember correctly. I think it was at Hiram Johnson, which is closed now. I still say she should contact the last high school that she attended on the off chance that they have a record of it.
School: Cal
Major: Nutritional Science – Dietetics
Year: Senior (I has a big sad.)
Extracurricular Activities?: Nutrition club officer, undergraduate researcher, volunteer at a local hospital
Class you are most/least looking forward to: Financial Accounting (required for my major). I am a total n00b in a sea of savvy Haas students. But, at the same time, I’m actually kinda looking forward to it because I know absolutely nothing about accounting. So, this is also the class I’m most looking forward to, I guess!
Wheeeeeeeeeeee.
Student
School: Santa Clara University
Major: Civil Engineering
Year: Sophomore
Extracurricular Activities: Intramurals, ASCE
Good Class: Probability and Statistics
Bad Class: Physics
"Pablo Sandoval, coming around third like a runaway beer truck." - Kruk
Haha just graduated from there :D
There's a First for Everything:
Edgar Renteria, The First World Series MVP in Giants History.
Are you the evil lady in the Chem department that almost screwed up my entire schedule? If not, carry on.
11/01/10
My adopted son is Steve Edlefsen.
Never mind, I just remembered the worst part about her. She was a Dodger fan.
11/01/10
My adopted son is Steve Edlefsen.
School: Roseman University of Health Sciences in South Jordan, UT (yes, I live in Utah)
Major: DMD in Dental Medicine
Year: First year dental student
Extracurriculars: I just moved out here/started three weeks ago but I’m thinking some sort of officer position in ASDA and probably some oral cancer research on the side.
Good class: all of them
Bad class: all of them
Your 2010 World Champions - San Francisco LOLGiants
One of my first posts here, but here goes:
School: Mountain View High School
Grade: Senior
Extra-Cirriculurs: Cross Country, Lacrosse, Roller (inline) Hockey, working towards getting Eagle Scout, joining a lot of clubs to pad my college apps
Class I’m most looking forward to: Civics/Economics
Class I’m least looking forward to: Calculus AB AP (have a teacher who’s a Giants/Sharks fan, but she’s not big on the whole teaching thing)
"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take"-Wayne Gretzky"-Michael Scott.
by SharksFanEst.1994 on Aug 26, 2011 8:59 PM PDT reply actions
I believe so
and maybe wcw.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
Bandwagons are fun- that's why people get on them in the first place.
by natteringnabob on Aug 26, 2011 10:02 PM PDT up reply actions
Yes’m.
Carter Jurica!
"Has anyone really been for even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?"
by GrahamCrakalaka on Aug 27, 2011 5:11 PM PDT up reply actions
Calculus is fun
Seth Rosin can hit the side of a barn with a baseball. From space.
Giants baseball: We're stupid enough to WIN that (TM)
Teacher
This has been an interesting summer/beginning to the year to say the least.
Last school year was the last for my school: Vallejo Middle School. It closed and the campus became the campus for the 9th grade academy that’s affiliated with Vallejo High School (across the street). Since our school was closing all of us teachers were reassigned. I got a letter telling me that I would be assigned to VHS teaching 10-12. I was happy with that. I preferred high school to middle school.
Then, on the last day of school for teachers, I find out that I and the other history teacher that was assigned to VHS 10-12 don’t actually have positions there. We were assigned to the 9th grade academy as career teachers because there was no where else for us. Needless to say, we were unhappy with this.
The summer was going by, I had come to peace with my new crappy assignment and I was checking edjoin (the state’s teacher job website) and I notice 4 social science positions in our district. I was no longer at peace with my new crappy position.
Long story short, I ended up assigned to the other high school in the district, Jesse Bethel.
I am happy to be teaching high school. I am happy to be teaching in my content area. So things turned out well, aside from a few bumps on the way.
Of course, the district has a new super (the 4th one in 3 years). The high school I am at has 700 more students and 25 more teachers this year than last. There is a nearly completely new administration. Things are somewhat chaotic. And to top it off, we lost all but one of our setup days so we could have people talk at us about the achievement gap and race.
I got my room on 1 pm the day before school started. I also learned what I was teaching the day before school started. I am a busy boy right now. Anyway.
I am at Bethel High School in Vallejo.
I teach 10th grade modern world history and 12th grade government and economics
I have no extra curricular stuff because I am teaching two classes I’ve never taught before, trying to play catch up due to chaos, with a wife and three kids (one a 2 month old).
Oh, and I’m gonna be working at least two jobs again come early November.
Oh, and I’m applying for the masters program (in history) for the spring.
That one I’m somewhat concerned about. I think I’ll get in. I’ve got a good record, both as a student and as a professional in the field. I’ve got good letters of rec. But I’ve never written a letter of intent so I’m not sure mine is good enough.
I don’t know how I’ll do it. But I truly miss going to school. Plus it’d help my career.
I LOVE YOU BASEBALL GODS!!!!!
Welcome to my new adopted Giant, Carlos Beltran. Well, actually, you're more like a foreign exchange student staying at my house for the summer. Regardless, win us a world series!
It’s monsters like you who are destroying this economy.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
first semester is gonna be an ass
School: SF School of the Arts
Year: Senior
Major: Vocal, although I’m not really happy with it at the moment
Extracurricular activities: Choir, Bake Club, GSA, Jazz/Pop Choir, Songwriting Class
Looking forward to: songwriting, jazz/pop choir
Not looking forward to: Vocal, 4 AP classes, college apps
School: Cal State Los Angeles
My major is microbiology with an option in Clinical Microbiology (just changed my major).
This is my going to be my 4th year in college but I’m a junior and I’m going to be applying to pharmacy school after next year (hopefully going to UCSF)
I want to be a part of the microbiology honor’s program this year. I work 2 jobs at a school and at Sears but I’m studying to take the PTCB so I can be a licensed Pharmacy Technician.
I’m most looking forward to taking Biology 100A the general biology course for science majors. I’m least looking forward to trigonometry.
"He knocks a stake through the heart of the Cardinals! The Cardinals are dead! The Giants are going to the World Series!!!" -Jon Miller
It's Posey time!!
My Adopted Squirrel: Heath Hembree
School: West Campus High School Sacramento
Year: Freshman. My brother is going to be a senior and is going to hurt me lol
Most looking forward to: Biology
Least looking forward to: Taking Algebra 1 once more. I am bad at math. ’nuff said
Rally Jerry!
Greekfro (insert unnecessary scribbles)
"Stupid dog, you make me look bad!" -Eustace Bagg
What’s your school? UW-Madison
What’s your major, if any? Physics
What year? 2nd year Ph.D.
Extracurricular Activities? Men’s League Baseball
Class you are most/least looking forward to this term? QFT and Atomic Physics / Dynamics (that’s gonna blow)
Do you know the guy from the Seven Up series? He’s in the Physics Dept. isn’t he?
MY DAD WAS WRONG!
MY BOY NEEDS TO THROW HARDER!
Cal Poly SLO!
I don’t feel like scrolling up to read the other questions.
Carter Jurica!
"Has anyone really been for even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?"
by GrahamCrakalaka on Aug 27, 2011 5:12 PM PDT reply actions
WOOOOOOOO
Me too. I’ll be a freshman.
My roommate is a Dodgers fan.
by Lisa Stevens on Aug 27, 2011 10:52 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
I'll be a freshman too.
What dorm/major?
Carter Jurica!
"Has anyone really been for even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?"
by GrahamCrakalaka on Aug 28, 2011 7:25 PM PDT up reply actions
Tenaya/Business Administration
International Business concentration
by Lisa Stevens on Aug 28, 2011 7:54 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
Nice
Yosemite/Environmental Management and Protection.
Haven’t decided my concentration.
Carter Jurica!
"Has anyone really been for even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?"
by GrahamCrakalaka on Aug 29, 2011 1:21 AM PDT up reply actions
Tenaya is a business dorm, right?
I think I have a friend living there next year.
Carter Jurica!
"Has anyone really been for even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?"
by GrahamCrakalaka on Aug 29, 2011 1:31 AM PDT up reply actions
Hey.
I’m talkin’ bizness here!!
He is the world's most annoying rooster.
by gallo del cielo on Aug 29, 2011 10:07 PM PDT up reply actions
Go to the Shack if you want to catch a game. It’s a lot less crowded than Firestone so you’ll actually get to see the game and I have yet to find anywhere else in SLO that shows the games consistently in my two years at Cal Poly.
Where is the Shack?
Carter Jurica!
"Has anyone really been for even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?"
by GrahamCrakalaka on Sep 2, 2011 12:56 AM PDT up reply actions
I’ll keep that in mind, thanks.
Carter Jurica!
"Has anyone really been for even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?"
by GrahamCrakalaka on Sep 3, 2011 1:03 AM PDT up reply actions
First post so here goes nothing!
Westview High School Portland, Oregon
Junior Class of 2013
Playing baseball, Sports Editor of school newspaper
Most: Ehh probably AP Government interesting topics cool teacher
Least: Anatomy. I just have no interest in it at all. I think I’m going to try and switch in to Physics
by SuperKenneth51 on Aug 27, 2011 11:55 PM PDT reply actions
Great post time.
He is the world's most annoying rooster.
by gallo del cielo on Aug 28, 2011 11:10 AM PDT reply actions
For me, I mean.
He is the world's most annoying rooster.
by gallo del cielo on Aug 28, 2011 11:11 AM PDT reply actions
Teacher
College professor, English and American studies.
Small liberal arts college in western NY – none of you are going to go there, so I’ll omit the tips about the cafeteria and the cable package in the dorms.
Years to retirement: too many
Coaching: vocal music and the equestrian club.
Torres IS the magic bean. - Johnny Disaster
by SituationalLefty on Aug 28, 2011 6:53 PM PDT reply actions
Elmira College?
Don't think he can cut it in the bigs? Brock Bond will be the bigger man and walk walk walk away.
Close, but no cigar. I’m in Rochester, on the shores of magnificent Lake O.
You must be an upstater to know about Elmira. Or a Mark Twain fan.
Torres IS the magic bean. - Johnny Disaster
by SituationalLefty on Aug 29, 2011 7:50 AM PDT up reply actions
I have a friend who was on the English Dept. faculty at Emlira for a few years. Like living in a Richard Russo novel.
MY DAD WAS WRONG!
MY BOY NEEDS TO THROW HARDER!
by Roger on Aug 29, 2011 2:42 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
The rec is for the Russo reference. His novels are way more expansive than anything I could ever write, but on a smaller scale—settings, characterization, conflicts—he’s probably been my biggest inspiration over the past year or so.
Coincidentally, I just today read a foreword he wrote in a collection of short stories about baseball.
The principal supporting business now is rage. -- Richard Hugo
by Timorous Me on Aug 31, 2011 10:44 PM PDT up reply actions
OHHHHH
I know someone who went to Rochester haha. I also know someone who went to Elmira, and I’ve driven through the area before on the way to (or back from?) Niagara Falls to D.C.
Don't think he can cut it in the bigs? Brock Bond will be the bigger man and walk walk walk away.
School: Took two years of GE classes at CCSF ( City College of San Francisco) and now transferring to Devry University
Major: Communications
Year: Even though I went to community college for two years, I will be considered a freshmen starting at Devry
Extracurricular Activities: Playing sports ( Baseball, basketeball or whatever sport) I sometimes teach basketball to the youth as an assistant or head coach for the junior Warriors basketball league.
Classes: Im looking forward for all my classes. I wasted two years of my life at community college trying to figure out what I want to do with my life.
You follow me, I'll follow you
http://ayeyooojerm.tumblr.com/
SF GIants Baseball 2011 = Torture Pt. 2. Home of 6 World Series Titles
SF 49ers Football 2011-2012 = ???. Home of 5.5 Super Bowl Champs ( Aaron Rodgers should of been a Niner)
I am a fan of the Warriors and Lakers. I can become a fan of both teams. Nothing wrong with that.
And what is the mascot of the fighting Devry U. students?
The Deviants?
The Blue Devrils?
He is the world's most annoying rooster.
by gallo del cielo on Aug 29, 2011 10:13 PM PDT up reply actions
They dont have one
You follow me, I'll follow you
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SF GIants Baseball 2011 = Torture Pt. 2. Home of 6 World Series Titles
SF 49ers Football 2011-2012 = ???. Home of 5.5 Super Bowl Champs ( Aaron Rodgers should of been a Niner)
I am a fan of the Warriors and Lakers. I can become a fan of both teams. Nothing wrong with that.
Parent
My son’s fifth grade class has a twitter account! He’s supposed to check it daily. This is going to put a damper on my crusade against all social networking websites. But the disdain will still be there.
Wise words by wcw: "Nobody cares about your Pokemon."
"There’s a new celebrity inside the organization, and it’s a three-foot inanimate object," - Larry Baer, my adopted son.
Oy vey.
/only Yiddish is sufficient to describe my reaction to this.
Just what the word needs – more people thinking in 140 characters or less.
Torres IS the magic bean. - Johnny Disaster
by SituationalLefty on Aug 29, 2011 7:47 AM PDT up reply actions
when they could be starting to think critically
and have an attention span and a memory
Marvin Barrios, come on I'll show you your bedroom. Don't stay on the phone too long to Panama, please.
by foothillsfan on Aug 29, 2011 3:36 PM PDT up reply actions
That sounds like… not a great idea.
Plus, even today you usually still can’t just assume that all of your students have reliable access to the Internet.
Once more, coming to you by proxy.
by howtheyscored on Aug 29, 2011 8:19 AM PDT up reply actions
Yeah, I’m not too hot on the “check it everyday bit” but I like the idea of an easy place for parents to go and get relevant class information.
Field trip permission slips due FRIDAY Aug 26 No slip- no trip!
Math homework pg 12 #1-5
Little kids, 11 and under, aren’t real good with the responsibility thing.
That seems so much more reasonable than what I associate with Twitter,
Torres IS the magic bean. - Johnny Disaster
by SituationalLefty on Aug 29, 2011 12:29 PM PDT up reply actions
Actually, that usage sounds reasonable and useful.
Having it required is not smart, though.
Once more, coming to you by proxy.
by howtheyscored on Aug 29, 2011 11:44 PM PDT up reply actions
So far it looks like it’s being used for reminders. Nothing new is coming through it. Maybe the ‘required’ wasn’t the right word, but they are asking that they check it daily. Maybe it’s being used to teach them to build their own reminder system. I know I couldnt function at work without my calendar.
Some of his homework has been online work. He is required to visit websites. Of course, I live in a uppity neighborhood in the suburbs of Dallas. No, I don’t fit in.
Wise words by wcw: "Nobody cares about your Pokemon."
"There’s a new celebrity inside the organization, and it’s a three-foot inanimate object," - Larry Baer, my adopted son.
Teacher
High school history. This year I have 9th and 10th grade history.
This is my fourth year teaching.
I am the head of the United Cause Club and Teens Reaching Out Club advisor. I also am a Junior Class advisor.
"We didn’t win our independence from the British to watch Aaron Rowand hit this bad"
"There is not seeing the ball well, and then there is that." - David B. Flemming describing an Aaron Rowand AB.
This is my fourth year as a social studies teacher, as well.
I’ve got 10th and 12th grade.
I LOVE YOU BASEBALL GODS!!!!!
Welcome to my new adopted Giant, Carlos Beltran. Well, actually, you're more like a foreign exchange student staying at my house for the summer. Regardless, win us a world series!
University of Maine School of Law
Getting my J.D.
Third-year (last year!!!)
Really pumped to take antitrust.
My only extracurricular activity is desperately looking for a job. Anyone want to hire a patent attorney.
Maine!!
The Pine Club State, best for clubbing teenagers.
He is the world's most annoying rooster.
by gallo del cielo on Aug 29, 2011 10:19 PM PDT up reply actions
Monta Vista High School
Senior, (Class of 2012)
My biggest extracurricular is FBLA, but I’m lazy so I don’t do much any more.
I’m looking forward to AP Physics because the teacher is great and I actually learn stuff, even if it’s the hardest class in the school.
I probably fear AP Physics the most because it’s hard. So yeah.
My adopted Giant, the young Reinier Roibal
MV!
Another year of Birdsong, sounds awesome. AP with him was easily my favorite class in high school despite it’s difficulties. Also crushed college physics afterwards so it’s worth it.
by haroldandsivakumar on Aug 31, 2011 10:18 AM PDT up reply actions
Yeah, I hope I’m up to the challenge, though.
What class were you in?
My adopted Giant, the young Reinier Roibal
‘08, can’t believe its been almost 4 years since i was there
by haroldandsivakumar on Sep 5, 2011 7:38 AM PDT up reply actions
Fast Black… Lincoln, Abraham?
Once more, coming to you by proxy.
by howtheyscored on Aug 31, 2011 9:14 PM PDT up reply actions
Just relocated to North Carolina and got some adjunct work
And of all things, on the first day of class, I compliment a student on his Giants hat (of course I’m playing favorites in this case!), only to have him come up and talk to me after class and say that he’s buddies with our own child prodigy, MadBum. A couple years younger but played against him in high school and AAU or whatever and got to know him a bit.
The principal supporting business now is rage. -- Richard Hugo
It’s going to be unfortunate when you have to give that kid an FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF.
Once more, coming to you by proxy.
by howtheyscored on Sep 1, 2011 9:08 AM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
I’m going to be a 4th year at UCLA. I only have 9 classes left for 3 quarters so it should be smooth sailing from here on out. I’m a Computer Science major and… I guess I’m looking forward to my AI class that I’m taking. It’s just gonna be a bunch of silly LISP programming though, and LISP isn’t one of my favorites. I’m not in any clubs or anything. Might find something to do this year though because I won’t have much of a work load. I just didn’t have time the previous years because the classes were pretty demanding.
by fishmicmuffin on Sep 2, 2011 2:14 AM PDT reply actions 1 recs
Merope-
I understand that you are a teacher in Sacramento. This is a shot in the dark here, but do you know a teacher named Mr. Pantages? He is my dad and the union representative at his school.
Rally Jerry!
Greekfro (insert unnecessary scribbles)
"Stupid dog, you make me look bad!" -Eustace Bagg
Nah, I worked with real little kids in Child Development, we never much got to associate with any teachers outside of our department a side from the kindergarten teachers.
Okey-dokey
Just wondering because he knows ALOT of teachers in Sacramento.
Rally Jerry!
Greekfro (insert unnecessary scribbles)
"Stupid dog, you make me look bad!" -Eustace Bagg
Well, it's not like anyone will care, but, oh well...
What’s your school? Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Campinas State University, UNICAMP for short).
What’s your major, if any? Geology/Geophysics. (However, the “major” system is quite different here, once you finish High School you must choose your major before entering college, and then you are accepted (or not) into that major by taking an exam, on which the best results get selected.)
What year? Freshman (Well, 1st year actually, since it takes 5~6 years until graduation here depending on your major).
Extracurricular Activities? Rugby, and, well, I don’t know how they are called in America, but down here we have these “Junior Companies”, which are companies funded by the university and ran by students. I’m manager of projects in geoprocessing of data.
Class you are most/least looking forward to this term? Most, Introduction to Remote Sensing. Least, Methods and History of Scientific Knowledge.
I highly doubt any of you will ever come down here to Brazil, specially in a non touristic city like Campinas, so there are not many tips to give regarding the location, however, if by any chance, you find yourself around, be sure to check the Law School Building (Common joke pulled on freshmen or visitors, as there is no Law School on this campus).
And, huh, sorry for any possible bad English =/
Your English . . .
is better than that of many nativos around here.
He is the world's most annoying rooster.
by gallo del cielo on Sep 4, 2011 7:25 PM PDT up reply actions
Sorry for super late reply but here it is!
What’s your school? Emory University (I went to Harker for High School)
What’s your major, if any? Haven’t declared, but most likely, Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology (Pre-med track oriented)
What year? Freshman
Extracurricular Activities? Not studying, Tennis Club, and that’s it for now – hoping to join a club or two later
Class you are most/least looking forward to this term? Most is Psych 100 or Chem 141 and least, French 201
Go Sharks!
Entry Level Analyst Job in Baseball
I know this thread is dead and probably isn’t the place for this anyway, but for those of you college age or college grads around here who are very statistically inclined, Keith Law posted a note from a friend of his in baseball who has a job opening in the game. Were in 22 with any aptitude for math I’d jump on it!
MY DAD WAS WRONG!
MY BOY NEEDS TO THROW HARDER!
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