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Don't feel too bad, one semester last year I had class from 8:30 AM until 10:30 PM on Wednesdays.

At 9/15/09 12:23 PM, Elfer wrote:

I just remember I was excited last year because I was going to have less than 25 hours of class per week almost half the time :/

That's quite a bit. Where I go to college the amount of credits you see people taking are almost always 15 hours worth. I think the highest amount you are allowed to take is 18 and after that you actually have to get permission to take more hours.

Hey guys, quick question:

Any good ways of avoiding/losing the freshman fifteen? I've tried avoiding as best as I can, but dirt cheap Tim Horton's donuts on campus makes things hard... lol

At 9/17/09 11:24 PM, MrCrawford wrote: Hey guys, quick question:

Any good ways of avoiding/losing the freshman fifteen? I've tried avoiding as best as I can, but dirt cheap Tim Horton's donuts on campus makes things hard... lol

Ha, I gained my freshman 20 I'm pretty sure, but I was also lifting weights and my body fat dropped from 14 percent to 8 percent. So I guess take advantage of the free gym since where you go has one right?

I've also adapted to eating bacon and eggs in the morning for breakfast and a salad with some grilled chicken at night for supper. It keeps me around 200 pounds, keeps my body fat down under 10 percent and after awhile you acquire a taste for it.

Small tip. Did you know if you replace 1 soda (or similar drink) a day with a bottle of water you can lose up to 20 pounds in the first year and be consuming 50,000 calories less then what you would have been before.

At 9/17/09 11:08 AM, Fro wrote: That's quite a bit. Where I go to college the amount of credits you see people taking are almost always 15 hours worth. I think the highest amount you are allowed to take is 18 and after that you actually have to get permission to take more hours.

That's weird that there would be a cap on it like that. Are there many technical programs at your college? In my first year I had over 30 hours/week.

Also, with regards to you being 200 pounds and sub 10% body fat: Are you like eight feet tall?

At 9/18/09 11:55 AM, Elfer wrote:

That's weird that there would be a cap on it like that. Are there many technical programs at your college? In my first year I had over 30 hours/week.

I just thought it was the way it was in most places I guess. I just know if you do the 15 hours a week then you'll graduate on time with any major if I'm not mistaken. You have to take your general courses such as math and English and your professional ones that pertain to your major.

Also, with regards to you being 200 pounds and sub 10% body fat: Are you like eight feet tall?

Body builder and I'm only 6 foot.

Gah, I should probably jump in.
Typing from High Point University with a planned major in game design, which became a newly added major this school year. Lucky me, huh?

At 9/20/09 12:00 AM, Fro wrote:

Also, with regards to you being 200 pounds and sub 10% body fat: Are you like eight feet tall?

Body builder and I'm only 6 foot.

So you're like... spherical?

Also I'm still a bit baffled by this 15 hour/week limit. Does your college have accredited engineering programs (i.e. ones that will allow a person to earn a P.E. after graduation)? I really have a hard time seeing how that could be packed into fifteen hours a week.

At 9/20/09 09:00 PM, Hybrid-Of-Souls wrote: Typing from High Point University with a planned major in game design

I originally planned on doing a similar course, but I ended up doing Computer Science (Software Engineering). In my later years we have the option to do some computer game based modules which I think I'll almost definitely be doing.

Anyway, good luck with it. Really sounds like an interesting course.

Got a great timetable this year, last year had three 9AMs rather than 2, and around 5-6 hours more per week.

Fridays :D :D :D

At 9/23/09 12:07 AM, BananaBreadMuffin wrote: Got a great timetable this year, last year had three 9AMs rather than 2, and around 5-6 hours more per week.

Fridays :D :D :D

That's pretty nice BBM. Right now I'm taking 4 classes, which meet a total of 10 times throughout the week. My earliest class is 9:25, which is twice a week, and I also have friday's off. It's pretty awesome to have Friday's off eh? You can go drinking on three days a week that way.

At 9/23/09 12:07 AM, BananaBreadMuffin wrote: Got a great timetable this year,

My timetable is pretty good as well. The Department of Computer Science doesn't appear to like starting before 10:15am unless I just got lucky this semester with no 9:15am starts. I liked my timetable as it came, but it wasn't long before we were told that we didn't have to attend all the classes shown as there were two of some spread throughout the week and we are only expected to attend one. That cut six hours off my week.

Mondays I don't start until 1:15 and Thursdays I don't start until 2:15! On Fridays I have a lab session from 10:15-12:15 and then my day is over. I hope it stays much like this through the entire 4 years.

At 9/23/09 12:07 AM, BananaBreadMuffin wrote: Got a great timetable this year, last year had three 9AMs rather than 2, and around 5-6 hours more per week.

Fridays :D :D :D

Huh, turns out my 2pm wednesday has been moved to 2pm friday because some people doing different modules to me had 5 hours straight of lectures.

fuck them.

I have no days off.

Fuck music and fuck you guys.

<3

Today was totally worth it. A 2 hour lab session from 2:15 - 4:15 and I finished my programming stuff in no time. Took ages before someone would come and mark what I'd done. Scored 10 points toward my final grade, which was full marks. xD

At 9/21/09 11:21 AM, Elfer wrote:

Also I'm still a bit baffled by this 15 hour/week limit. Does your college have accredited engineering programs (i.e. ones that will allow a person to earn a P.E. after graduation)? I really have a hard time seeing how that could be packed into fifteen hours a week.

Ok, this is what the Engineering program looks like where I go.

This is a five-year, dual-degree program, including three years of pre-engineering courses at LHU and two years at another school to complete an engineering degree there. LHU presently has cooperative engineering agreements with the main campus and the Behrend campus of the Pennsylvania State University. Alternatively, students may choose to transfer to any other school which has engineering programs. In any case, upon completion of the engineering degree at another school as well as the LHU pre-engineering requirements, LHU will award the student either a Bachelor of Arts in Natural Science/Physics or a Bachelor of Science in Physics/Pre-Engineering.

Lock Haven University requirements for BA Natural Science/Physics program

A.
General Education (51 sh total)

WELLNESS 3 sh
BASIC SKILLS
English Composition (ENGL100) 3 sh
Mathematics 3 sh
Speech (SPCH102) 3 sh
HUMANITIES
Art/Music/Theatre (It is recommended that both courses be taken in a single discipline to meet PSU sequencing requirements. Engineering accrediting requirements demand that "craft" based courses must include theory or history.)
6 sh
Literature 3 sh
Philosophy 3 sh
SOCIAL & BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES
World History 3 sh
Economics (ECON101) 3 sh
Psychology 3 sh
Sociology/Anthropology 3 sh
NATURAL SCIENCES 6 sh
FOREIGN LANGUAGE 6 sh
LIBERAL ARTS SEMINAR 3 sh

Additional Requirements
Multicultural - 2 courses
Writing Emphasis - 1 course
Information Literacy - 1 course
External Experience - 1 unit
B.
Area Requirements (29 sh)

COMP160 Programming I
3 sh

CHEM120, 121 Principles of Chemistry I & II
8 sh

MATH141 Calculus 1 3 sh
MATH142 Calculus 2 3 sh
MATH243 Calculus 3 3 sh
MATH244 Calculus 4 3 sh
MATH211 Linear Methods 3 sh
MATH301 Differential Equations 3 sh
C.
Core Requirements (25 total)

PHYS105 Engineering Graphics
2 sh

PHYS170, 171 Intermediate General Physics I & II
8 sh

PHYS250 Heat 3 sh

PHYS315 Atomic and Nuclear Physics
4 sh

PHYS330, 331 Mechanics I & II
6 sh

PHYS345 Methods of Physics

Looking at my first term timetable. Pretty packed.

Monday:
9:15-10:15 - Physics of Matter
10:15-11:00 - Mathematics 1
12:15-17:15 - Experimental Laboratory 1

Tuesday:
10:15-11:15 - Physics of Matter
11:15-12:00 - Mathematics 1
14:15-15:15 - Newtonian Mechanics

Wednesday:
10:15-11:00 - Mathematics 1
12:15-13:15 - Mathematics 1 Practical Group 1

Thursday:
9:15-10:15 - Newtonian Mechanics

Friday:
10:15-11:15 - Mathematics 1 Practical Group 2
11:15-12:15 - Newtonian Mechanics

Also have several "Professional Skills" classes, most of which are one off things in either week 1 or week 2, although one of them, "Introduction to Computer Applications" lasts 4 weeks.

Maths should be a breeze for the first term, since it's all stuff from the Further Maths A-Level to get people who didn't do it up to speed.

Not sure where my elective modules will fit in either, since you don't even have to choose them until you get there.

At 9/24/09 12:42 PM, Fro wrote: Ok, this is what the Engineering program looks like where I go.

What is a sh?

Also, as I asked before, is this an accredited program? Are graduates eligible to become Professional Engineers afterward?

Timetables, hm?

Monday:
9:00-9:50 - Biology
11:00-11:50 - Game Study (I'll likely go in depth for this later)
1:00-1:50 - Calculus
4:00-5:15 - English 101

Tuesday:
12:30-2:30 - Biology Lab
3:30-4:45 - Western Civilization

Wednesday:
9:00-9:50 - Biology
11:00-11:50 - Game Study
1:00-1:50 - Calculus
4:00-5:15 - English 101

Thursday:
11:00-12:15 - Experiential learning (school president talks about life values)
3:30-4:45 - Western Civilization

Friday:
9:00-9:50 - Biology
11:00-11:50 - Game Study
1:00-1:50 - Calculus

At 9/24/09 10:48 PM, Elfer wrote:

At 9/24/09 12:42 PM, Fro wrote: Ok, this is what the Engineering program looks like where I go.

What is a sh?

An hour. So basically just a credit.

Also, as I asked before, is this an accredited program? Are graduates eligible to become Professional Engineers afterward?

I have no clue. You can look at it here on our website. I know nothing of the program so I wouldn't know. I just know to become an elementary education teacher such as myself it's 4 years, about 15 credits a semester and you're done.

http://www.lhup.edu/academic/acad_affair s/engineeringreq.htm

At 9/25/09 09:15 AM, Fro wrote: An hour. So basically just a credit.

After looking at this stuff, assuming your year is divided into two terms and not three, it's impossible to get these hours in three years without going well over 15/week

At 9/25/09 09:49 AM, Elfer wrote:

At 9/25/09 09:15 AM, Fro wrote: An hour. So basically just a credit.

After looking at this stuff, assuming your year is divided into two terms and not three, it's impossible to get these hours in three years without going well over 15/week

Just reading a couple of sentences into the first paragraph of that program it says that it's a 5 year program. I don't think I've ever seen a three year program here at the college even though I'm sure there are some.

And yes a year is divided into two terms. That would mean 120 credits in four years, but in most programs they have a block term where they have like 18 to 20 credits in their last semester.

At 9/25/09 11:24 AM, Fro wrote:

At 9/25/09 09:49 AM, Elfer wrote:

At 9/25/09 09:15 AM, Fro wrote: An hour. So basically just a credit.

After looking at this stuff, assuming your year is divided into two terms and not three, it's impossible to get these hours in three years without going well over 15/week

Just reading a couple of sentences into the first paragraph of that program it says that it's a 5 year program. I don't think I've ever seen a three year program here at the college even though I'm sure there are some.

The program is only three years here at Lock Haven, then you have to finish at a different school only taking two more years.

Already almost at the end of my third week in to the course. I feel that I've learnt a lot of new things so far, and there will be a lot more still to come.

I currently have a few projects/assignments that I have to complete. The first being a 30 second Flash animation that I have already completed above the standard that was asked of us. Second, I have to design a pet within Second Life and script it so that it has pet like qualities. Thirdly, I have to write a short report (only around 500 words) on "Soft Computing" and I have no idea what the hell that is. Wikipedia's article on the subject doesn't look like it reaches 500 words! Struggling to find websites with more information on it as well.

University really was a great decision. Just a shame I'm still not 18, and won't be until January :(

I got my exam grade back from my first Economics exam. I got an 88% on it so I'm pretty happy with the grade. My highest grade (when I had the class the first time when I failed) last semester was a 60%. O.o

He said the average on the exam was around a 60% also. I'd have to say thank you to reverend for reviewing my homework each week and telling me what I was doing right/wrong.

Ho, now my college just got better.
Arcade recently set up and finished in one of the larger areas, and it's probably going to be where I'll be frequenting throughout the school year.

At 9/30/09 11:36 PM, Hybrid-Of-Souls wrote: Ho, now my college just got better.
Arcade recently set up and finished in one of the larger areas,

Sounds nice. I can predict that many people will end up losing a lot of their money there. Assuming you have to pay of course, which I imagine you will?

At 10/1/09 05:19 AM, GodsBitch wrote: Sounds nice. I can predict that many people will end up losing a lot of their money there. Assuming you have to pay of course, which I imagine you will?

Surprisingly, no.
You can even rent Xbox 360 or Playstation 3 controllers and a game to play.

At 10/1/09 07:25 PM, Hybrid-Of-Souls wrote: Surprisingly, no.
You can even rent Xbox 360 or Playstation 3 controllers and a game to play.

Nice. I'm sure I'd spend a good few hours in a facility like that should we have one here. I don't get to game much at all. I left my Xbox 360 at home and now only get to play it on the weekends. A couple of days ago a few of the guys set up a Unreal Tournament LAN in one of the computer labs. That's the only real gaming time I've had at uni. I do occasionally get to play TF2 on one of my friends desktops, which is always fun.

I've had a few exams lately, but nothing that was really too hard. As of now my grades would go as the following.

Three A's and two A-'s.

Other than grades I do have to do some observation hours in a special education classroom for the first time ever so that will be interesting to see how that goes.