Post Akg2GaCUXXWWCm5fbE by willaful@romancelandia.club
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(DIR) Post #Akfuyg9CzV5ll34Qbo by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-08-06T01:40:56Z
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The salty bullion and dried vegetable aroma of "Cup Noodles" sold in the vending machines (with their faux wood paneling) in community college basement just off of the lecture hall where the 9:35pm Linear Algebra class met MWF.You could have beef or chicken. That would be dinner as the cafeteria was closed and nothing near campus would be open when class let out at 11:00Oddly I *do* miss teaching night school... sort of.
(DIR) Post #AkfvQy5dsIR3VutLZA by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-08-06T01:46:03Z
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There is nothing like community college architecture. It's this ideal mixture of ambition, inventiveness, shabbiness, and the liminal.Every building takes risks, and some work... some do not, but at least they are interesting. And there is no gobs of money to hide weaknesses in design. The architecture must triumph on its merits without fancy surface details, or landscaping to cover for bad ideas.Someone should make a coffee table book of just liminal photos of different community colleges.
(DIR) Post #AkfvnPdm7hFLKaYkO8 by knowuh@mastodon.social
2024-08-06T01:50:01Z
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@futurebird this thread is singing to me.
(DIR) Post #Akfw5jiKEHsSnfQQCG by pencilears@mastodon.eternalaugust.com
2024-08-06T01:53:23Z
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@futurebird I should have taken pictures of green river community college's old liberal arts wing before they tore it down, it was kind of glorious, if a bit moldy.
(DIR) Post #AkfwIwEWzfgFOQmgxk by icastico@c.im
2024-08-06T01:55:47Z
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@futurebird I too (sort of) miss teaching night school at community college (remedial writing) - and you get the vibe just right. Such great students.
(DIR) Post #AkfwN6LBMCIdtlse9I by knowuh@mastodon.social
2024-08-06T01:56:35Z
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@futurebird I was brought up by a single mom, comp sci graduate from a state school, and a community college before that. She got a job developing a new gaming console in 1982 at Milton Bradley. She brought me to work when she had to pull all nighters.I have a vivid memory of the break room -- cardboard ashtrays and vending machines, including the worst coffee to have ever experienced. I love these spaces.
(DIR) Post #AkfwZSSmvnWlzBKXLs by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-08-06T01:58:47Z
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@icastico Any student who earned an A in a community college math class above Calc I is a *very* rare individual, and I kind of want to write about that because I don't think it's widely recognized. In fact, were I doing any sort of project or hiring and I saw that? They'd go right to the top. You simply cannot play around, and there is much less support than at 4 year schools.
(DIR) Post #AkfxCkya2EO2hCwK6i by superflippy@mastodon.xyz
2024-08-06T02:05:52Z
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@futurebird While reading your toot, I suddenly remembered the smell of the music classrooms at Hartnell College. I spent so many hours in that building. Hartnell would definitely be in that coffee table book.
(DIR) Post #AkfxiJBIuWmll5w6V6 by mathowie@xoxo.zone
2024-08-06T02:11:15Z
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@futurebird @icastico hard agree, I flailed in calc at CC and it was the only class I ever dropped. I eventually redid a year of calc at UC Riverside. The kids in the front row of my calc class that went into differential equations at CC were math savants who instantly understood stuff that made my brain hurt. It was like they understood it as a separate language they were fluent in.
(DIR) Post #Akfyln5KHoNvKGMequ by icastico@c.im
2024-08-06T02:23:15Z
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@futurebird What I remember most was that my students were there to improve themselves and the lives of their families. None just doing time cuz they’re supposed to.
(DIR) Post #Akg0cD5cwhkwzV44DQ by barrygoldman1@sauropods.win
2024-08-06T02:44:05Z
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@futurebird @icastico what the hell, i can't remember waht math i did in community college 42 years ago. i did a year of calc in h.s. and i remember multivariate calc after comm college. i wonder if i have a txcript somewhere.huh it says i took something called calc 3. NO RECOLLECTION. sorry i got a B, i sucked at school anyway. A in physics tho. hmm B in diffeq too.reading more... wow i REALLY sucked at school.hmm... i had thot i got more support in community college than 4yr.
(DIR) Post #Akg0kz2aY6Yq1bpK0O by barrygoldman1@sauropods.win
2024-08-06T02:45:41Z
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@futurebird @icastico for instance MANY years later, i taught an algebra class at that school and i made sure none of my studetns wasted their time flunking that class. they either came to me for help to got a useful grade or i made sure they got out in time.
(DIR) Post #Akg1q7ClipgwkQbDhg by TheJen@beige.party
2024-08-06T02:57:48Z
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@futurebird I had some of my best and most enriching educational experiences at community colleges. I went to several as I was cobbling together an education over many years as a young adult. The teachers there for the most part do it because they love teaching, not for tenure or research. I am a huge fan of them.
(DIR) Post #Akg2GaCUXXWWCm5fbE by willaful@romancelandia.club
2024-08-06T03:02:34Z
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@futurebird My daughter's starting CALC 3 in community college this Fall. She's loved math since she was wee.@icastico
(DIR) Post #Akg2zRdxCYuchHKN0K by mikegrundy@hachyderm.io
2024-08-06T03:10:42Z
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@futurebird @icastico I love this. I got an A- in Calc II because work was kicking my butt. Literally had to wheel and deal with my prof after I tanked my midterm because I ran in late instead of taking a minute to sort myself out. A) I was already late, what is five more minutes. B) That was 22 years ago and I’m still salty about it.
(DIR) Post #Akg4Da1Cxa3SgEVaYC by recursive@hachyderm.io
2024-08-06T03:24:27Z
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@futurebird thanks for bringing back memories
(DIR) Post #Akg4jWl4cJDxprCAvw by rye@ioc.exchange
2024-08-06T03:30:14Z
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@futurebird I was at one of our community colleges today and thought very similarly. There are also art installations that help represent time to others. A contribution to a communal space.
(DIR) Post #AkgBsVfiizAGkevDBg by MrBerard@pilote.me
2024-08-06T04:50:16Z
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@futurebird You probably mean bouillon, unless you were at an exceptionally wealthy institution flavouring noodles with gold bars.
(DIR) Post #Akgey8thD5nmWeUrfk by llewelly@sauropods.win
2024-08-06T10:16:16Z
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@futurebird @icastico 1/3I did calc at community college. Had already taken it in high school, but the university I'd targeted did not accept HS calc courses for "core requirements", though they were ok with community college calc. I took the "physics with calc" series at the same time, and an electrical engineering class that had a bunch of calc in it. For 3 quarters I did a ton of calc. Then I took differential equations, but it was easy bc I'd done so much calc.
(DIR) Post #AkgfKWoMykGb44gD4a by llewelly@sauropods.win
2024-08-06T10:16:44Z
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@futurebird @icastico 2/3the calc text was written by people who were terrible obfuscating slobs when it came to units, making all the story problems much harder than they needed to be. (It was a worse calc text than what I'd used in HS, but the one I'd used in HS was borrowed, and I'd returned it to the teacher.) The physics, EE, and diff eq texts were all written by people who were very pedantic about units,
(DIR) Post #AkgfKYkBnG6x3gjtpo by llewelly@sauropods.win
2024-08-06T10:17:01Z
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@futurebird @icastico 3/3and that made the story problems much less difficult, though they involved more complicated and more technical maths. After transfering to a university, one of my professors devoted a whole lecture to the importance of getting the units right in setting up a math problem, because ... the university used the same terrible calc text (the community college chose it to match the university choice).
(DIR) Post #Akgfb6iDGiA52fhoCO by jacquiharper@mastodon.world
2024-08-06T10:23:18Z
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@futurebird 🫡 to one and all involving themselves with algebra after the sun goes down
(DIR) Post #AkoMLRatWCG9JBmOIq by stepheneb@ruby.social
2024-08-10T03:23:14Z
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@hal_pomeranz @knowuh Noah, this story might make you giggle … in 1975 I had reconnected with David and remember both of us visiting his dad’s psychoacoustic lab at MIT one night. There was all sort of crazy stuff in the lab including a pdp8 and a pdp11. There was a tectonics vector scope display and David loaded the SPACEWARS program — two little triangles with thrust, inertia, rotational steering, and a pew-pew gun. We had fun ;-)@futurebird