There has been a lot of debate, both in the Honors office and amongst Honors students, pertaining the Honors courses required during the first 2 years in the program. Some feel that Honors students have a desire to go above and beyond what is necessary to receive a diploma. Others feel that if the courses were not a requirement that the program would have a hard time getting enough students to register --maybe not even getting enough students to keep the courses open.
Personally, I would have rather had some of my 200 -level major courses as Honors than the actual Honors courses offered. I understand the need to have a course to create a cohort atmosphere for the Honors students, but the HON 200/201 courses are set up for just that. Honors courses should be major-directed since that's what we're all here for in the first place: to get a particular degree.
Any comments? Please, be my guest :)
Showing posts with label College. Show all posts
Showing posts with label College. Show all posts
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Winter Wonder Land
I know this isn't very substantive...but it's pretty much the topic of the day...
Why didn't CSU, and the Cleveland public school system, close for the am classes today? Furthermore, why close the campus and schools for classes for the afternoon? All this does is create unnecessary traffic jams and confusion. I know I'm from the Cleveland area, and should be used to the snow, but when my options are going to class or saving my car from obliteration, I choose playing hooky.
Any comments? Go for it!
Why didn't CSU, and the Cleveland public school system, close for the am classes today? Furthermore, why close the campus and schools for classes for the afternoon? All this does is create unnecessary traffic jams and confusion. I know I'm from the Cleveland area, and should be used to the snow, but when my options are going to class or saving my car from obliteration, I choose playing hooky.
Any comments? Go for it!
Friday, July 6, 2007
Yea! Graduation!!! ... Now What?
It's so close, you can just about taste it. Four (and a half) years in the making, finally, the white sheet is about to be snatched away to reveal the new you. You're excited about it. Your parents are VERY excited about it. Grandma is... let's call her "ecstatic" and your Professors can't help but smile when you pass them by in the corridors that you once thought were "big" and confusingly arranged.
But, now you, a SENIOR, have conquered! No longer are you the freshman walking (alone) to ENG 101H with a backpack neatly lined with assorted colors of pocket folders and notebooks, a spare copy of your schedule clinched in your almost visibly trembling hand, while nervously scanning the 3-digits etched above what seems to be an endless row of classroom doors. Now, you've gotten so good at college life, you can visualize a classroom as soon as you hear the room number. Not only that, you know the fastest way to (cut through the construction to) get there so you won't have to forfeit precious minutes of beauty rest, ahem, "mind relaxation" to be on time.
But are you REALLY ready to leave the campus that has been your home, of sorts, for the past several years? The campus on which it seems everybody knows your name? The campus you've become accustomed to and know so well? Before you answer, consider this.
Graduating from college marks the beginning of a new life with new rules. Yes, you will have to start "the process" all over again. You will become that freshman who just interrupted your pizza break to ask for directions to his ENG 101 class when (hopefully) you find employment after graduation.
This post is not to scare anyone into becoming professional college students who never graduate. Not at all. It is to help those who may be nearing graduation to have a healthy outlook on it. You may be a *rockstar* on campus now, but once your name echoes through the Wolstein Center at commencement, it's back to step one on the rungs of life's ladder. You'll be the newbie once again.
Below this post, there's a link that tells how many comments have been posted by readers like you. Here's what I ask of you, dear reader: Click that link and then post a comment that gives your advice to graduating seniors (like me)! Or, if you prefer, give some advice to the perplexed freshmen who are still trying to figure out what their CampusNet password is {LOL}. If nothing else, post a comment that lets the weekly blogger know they aren't talking (or is it typing?) to themselves {LOL}.
Matt K.
SPREAD THE WORD ABOUT THE HONORS BLOG! COMMENT! READ PREVIOUS ENTRIES TOO.
But, now you, a SENIOR, have conquered! No longer are you the freshman walking (alone) to ENG 101H with a backpack neatly lined with assorted colors of pocket folders and notebooks, a spare copy of your schedule clinched in your almost visibly trembling hand, while nervously scanning the 3-digits etched above what seems to be an endless row of classroom doors. Now, you've gotten so good at college life, you can visualize a classroom as soon as you hear the room number. Not only that, you know the fastest way to (cut through the construction to) get there so you won't have to forfeit precious minutes of beauty rest, ahem, "mind relaxation" to be on time.
But are you REALLY ready to leave the campus that has been your home, of sorts, for the past several years? The campus on which it seems everybody knows your name? The campus you've become accustomed to and know so well? Before you answer, consider this.
Graduating from college marks the beginning of a new life with new rules. Yes, you will have to start "the process" all over again. You will become that freshman who just interrupted your pizza break to ask for directions to his ENG 101 class when (hopefully) you find employment after graduation.
This post is not to scare anyone into becoming professional college students who never graduate. Not at all. It is to help those who may be nearing graduation to have a healthy outlook on it. You may be a *rockstar* on campus now, but once your name echoes through the Wolstein Center at commencement, it's back to step one on the rungs of life's ladder. You'll be the newbie once again.
Below this post, there's a link that tells how many comments have been posted by readers like you. Here's what I ask of you, dear reader: Click that link and then post a comment that gives your advice to graduating seniors (like me)! Or, if you prefer, give some advice to the perplexed freshmen who are still trying to figure out what their CampusNet password is {LOL}. If nothing else, post a comment that lets the weekly blogger know they aren't talking (or is it typing?) to themselves {LOL}.
Matt K.
SPREAD THE WORD ABOUT THE HONORS BLOG! COMMENT! READ PREVIOUS ENTRIES TOO.
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