"This is going to be the best semester ever."

[mandolin]

So I was going through the archives of MacHall and cracked up when I hit comic #149:

It wouldn't be half as funny if it didn't make me think of Dr. Petersen near semester's end.

...well, I don't know about office hours at the bar, but still. :)

Comments

[weirdweb.livejournal.com]

...the hell?

Um, the chair of Hood College's English department passed away in 2001 - and they just assigned an interim chair and appointed two professors as joint chairs the next year. (And I'm talking a college that was nearly BROKE at this point...)

But cutting the whole freaking major??

Did they at least allow people who were currently majoring in CS to finish their majors and phase the major out rather than just axing it? Hood at least did that when they chopped the Studio Art major (otherwise, I suspect there'd have been a mob after the president).

[alex-garg.livejournal.com]

No, what the school usually does is outright axe majors - seniors have to make up how other classes are relevant to their majors (or, as happened when our sociology prof. died last year and they axed the major, they'll have to make something up like CS-Bio or CS-PoliSci) and everybody else has to go searching for another major.

Fortunately my departments are plentiful in professors, so a single death would be greatly tragic but not major-ending; but, here's hoping they don't all get on an ill-fated flight before I graduate.

[weirdweb.livejournal.com]

seniors have to make up how other classes are relevant to their majors (or, as happened when our sociology prof. died last year and they axed the major, they'll have to make something up like CS-Bio or CS-PoliSci) and everybody else has to go searching for another major.

Holy SHIT.

I am never allowed to bitch about my alma mater's penny-pinching ever again.

If Hood pulled that with the Studio Art major, there'd have been hordes of outraged juniors trying to burn down the registrar's office - and the student body at Hood tended to be kind of apathetic, too. I could just imagine the number of parents pulling out the lawyer stick on that one. (Then again, our Dean of Students was actually effective and gave a damn about the students, too, so maybe that's part of the reason why they couldn't just kill the major outright.)

[jennies.livejournal.com]

Yes, but the thing about Hood you have to remember is, at that point, it was a women's college.

Full of clever, cunning young women with free access to the science laboratories, matches, and dorms with 2 minute burn times.

And a history of things burning down. (Granted, that was generally the Pergola, but still. Anyone who's ever seen the lengths women will go to to get mad, get back, or just get even could've predicted the violence would've been mind-boggling and clever in a locked-room murder sort of way...)

[violetbloom.livejournal.com]

He he he he he. And the issue of burn times is revisited. I love it!