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Post by RocDoc on Feb 14, 2005 16:14:11 GMT -5
Pilates as a credit class...EXcellent!
I made the point of ALWAYS taking some sort of a PE class at U of Ill...Tennis(2 semesters! And I actually got good at it!), Basketball(ended when I dislocated my left ring finger...fucking HURT!), Lifeguarding, Water Safety Instruction(made myself some good $$ as a Lifeguard/Instructor for 6-7 years after thosetwo!)....Racquetball...
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Post by luke on Feb 17, 2005 12:02:35 GMT -5
The last fifteen credit hours of my undergraduate career are:
Integrated Marketing Communications
Public Speaking
Communication Law and Ethics
Management of Behavior and Organizations
Internship
All will be As except for that Law and Ethics class, which is a real motherfucker. About to head out that way right now, in fact...
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Post by Proud on Mar 29, 2005 12:47:04 GMT -5
just got accepted into TCNJ.
i couldn't help but break down. the other day i just randomly felt so happy, and then today, i got the letter. maybe it's a sign! ha. either way, i'm just so thrilled that my horrible high school record was overlooked, and i got into a really good school.
2 years of hard work and not looking back, recovering from some of the worst years of my life, and the reward is here.
god bless america.
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Post by stratman19 on Mar 29, 2005 19:51:28 GMT -5
Good for you Proud. Congratulations. Where in the hell have you been anyway?
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Post by RocDoc on Apr 1, 2005 15:29:56 GMT -5
...but also consider that the 'hard work' also is just beginning...there's very little 'charity' in education.
NOW you've got to prove that this is where you belong.
Sincerely, I wish you the best.
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Post by Nepenthe on Jul 15, 2005 21:46:40 GMT -5
I have been doing a lot of research in a field that has interested me for about the last 10 years, and have decided to change my plans a bit with my education. I have always been fascinated with ancient cultures and history, archaeology ect. Last summer I did a few term papers on Native Americans as well as some archaeology finds in China. So I am aiming for the field of archaeology/history, and research.  |
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Post by strat-0 on Jul 17, 2005 10:54:03 GMT -5
History was one of my college majors and it is a fascinating subject. The story of who were are and how we got that way is very compelling to me. I think many young people are turned off by it simply because of the way it is presented in primary and secondary school.
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Post by Nepenthe on Jul 17, 2005 13:27:23 GMT -5
It is fascinating indeed. The biggest problem with history books at any grade level, including college level, is that archaeology outpaces them constantly. There is so much that has been discovered that changes history. I am especially fascinated with migrations of the Americas. They have found so much that disputes the idea of "only a Bering land bridge migration" that there has actually been a paradigm shift in thought in mainstream archaeology/antrhopolgy. Whats even more fascinating is the new theories and thought are not that new at all, there were anthropologists and archaeologists that had written about trans-oceanic contact of the Americas years ago. I have a few books written in the 70's and 80's about this. With the recent archaeologic findings and DNA testing, the theories of people like Thor Heyedahl, Barry Fell, and others are starting to ring true.
And speaking of DNA, another fascinating subject is the human genome project and the DNA migration project by National Geographic. This project is now open to the public, interesting indeed! A teacher in England participated in the project and it just so happened his DNA matched a 9,000 year old skeleton that had been found. Then of course there is Kennewick man and the Takla Makan mummies. Wow what a find indeed. The Takla Makan mummies have to be one of the most fascinating finds in history. I am so very anxious to see Victor Mair's complete DNA findings published, and I absolutely have to get Elizabeth Barber's book about this find.
Some very interesting studies are being done on middle east peoples and a tribe of South Africans, the Lemba tribe. Apparently the Cohen gene is showing up in both the Jewish Priests and the South African Lemba Priests. Not only that, this gene is showing up in Palestinian Arabs, Kurdish and Turkish peoples. This gene also showed up in one of the DNA researchers at Arizona State University that was raised a catholic and always thought his family came to the US in the 1800's from Czechoslovakia. Although they have no control of any sort to prove this is indeed a true original "Israelite" gene or a true priestly gene, as a matter of fact they think it is actually a gene of Asian origin. Still it is compelling to think that what they once considered an exclusively "priestly gene" is showing up amongst the Palestinian Arabs and other middle east peoples, as well as a black South African tribe. The gene is showing up through the Y chromosone, father to son gene.
Evidence like this is quite interesting in our present middle east troubles.........both political and religious claims....
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