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Subject: OT: Postcard - GraduationPostCardAndASUAbsentia.jpg
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I didn't remember the wording quite right, but I found the postcard
inside my diploma holder.
...Jim Thompson
Tulane gave me a little credit-card sized laminated reproduction of my
diploma, for free! I can whip it out any time to impress taxi drivers
and waiters.
Hey, they want me to endow a scholarship, and I'd get to have some say
(recommendations, to be honest) about who would get it. I'm thinking
about how I would describe a kid who likes real electronics, but not
just computer stuff, and definitely not robotics. One of the
advantages of the deal is that I would get to know and maybe some day
hire such kid.
Post-Katrina, the suits at Tulane decided that the engineering school
was a money loser (it didn't have brilliance or critical mass) so
decided to dump it. Art History is a lot cheaper and easier to teach.
Nick, the dean of engineering, was invited to be the dean of the
Sciences college, and he accepted under the condition that he wouldn't
be the guy who killed Tulane Engineering. So he came up with a plan:
kids would take three years of sciences (physics, chemistry, or
biology) at TU, then go to a real, serious engineering school and
spend 2 more years there, and graduate with a dual degree. The other
schools love it, because it gives them more non-doofus junior/senior
students, which balances their huge freshman/sophmore washout rates.
I think this is a great idea. But I am lobbying for a freshman
introduction-to-electronics course, AoE for Dummies, because I think
that one's electronics instincts should be installed at as young an
age as possible and, face it, everything is electronic these days.
John
