FB: American Rivers Conference

[sportsknight]

Anyone take any "cake" classes in college?

Coaching Authorization with baseball coach Joel Holst.  Toughest part of that class was staying awake.
Math in Modern Society.  Had to get my math requirement somehow.
Science for Society with Prof. Dan Black.  Turned out to be a really fun class, if not incredibly challenging. 
Coaching Theory of Football.  Unlike Walston, I had Coach Koehler for this one, and I understand it was much easier with Coach K.  We played Xbox one day.
Coaching Theory of Basketball with Dick Peth.  Pretty good class, although I would have preferred to take it from Jim Harrick Jr.
Listening to Music.  This one turned out a bit more difficult that I anticipated.  I don't know that we really needed to devote a full week to Gregorian chants, but we did.
Add in an internship and a couple independent studies and I usually had it made.

Never took Outdoor Rec, although I did want to.  I got talking with Coach Miller and a few other Wartburg folks earlier this fall and he mentioned that the first year they offered Outdoor Rec they barely had enough people to have the class, and it was about 70% international students.  In about 6 years it was the toughest class to get into in Wartburg's academic catalog.  I got a pretty good laugh from everybody at the table when I mentioned that I was wait-listed for Outdoor Rec both my senior years.

[DutchFan2004]

I think IIAC motto fits the model set by Readlyn, IA, who claim a bunch of nice folks and 1 old grump:  We'd be "70 Football fans and 1 clown"  We can vote for the clown each year.


And when we vote, in honor of Chicago politics:  "Vote early-Vote often"   

I nominate Showme for the 2008 clown of the IIAC award.  Every post made me laugh.

[doolittledog]

I took a 2 credit weight lifting class.  We met tuesday-thursday for 2 weeks.  Then we were supposed to keep a log of our weight lifting and turn it in during finals week.  We were told to show up to the coaches office any time during finals week to take our final (and only) exam.  When we got to his office he handed us a test sheet and told us to go into the gym to take it.  We went in with our book bags and quickly figured out it was the same as the test at the back of the book we had.  We just opened up our books and copied out of that.  I got a B in the class because I suspect he knew my logs were bogus.  I made them up and actually never went to the gym. 

I also took a 2 credit science course called the Southwest Trip.  Over spring break they would take a bus load of students to the Ghost Ranch in New Mexico.  Along the way we toured around Denver and Colorado Springs and collected rocks.  Each night we would drink and play Eucher with the professors.  After the trip we had to turn in a paper describing what we learned on the trip.  A very fun way to earn 2 credits.  This trip is also where I got the doolittle name.  After taking a tour of the Denver Museum of Natural History we were hanging out near a pond in front of the museum and these ducks kept following me wherever I went.  Someone yelled out I was Dr. Doolittle because I could talk to animals and the name stuck.  Even the professors were calling me doolittle by the end of the trip!!!

[Walston Hoover]

Southwest Trip sounds a lot like Outdoor Rec. Spent every night drinking beer around a campfire.

[coco]

X Files? Star Trek? You kids had it easy!

The PE classes were my easiest.  You know -- bowling, dance.

[Wartburg Fan]

Southwest Trip sounds a lot like Outdoor Rec. Spent every night drinking beer around a campfire.

My kid took that canoe trip with about 6 other football players and your right WH every picture I saw of the trip was those 7 setting around with a beer in their hand, but they looked like they were having fun.

[Klopenhiemer]

I took a few cream puffs in my day, to bad I took them earlier in my career, as I did not plan on actually getting a degree.  Football got me to the school and then after I was there for 2.5 years I figured that I might as well get out with something more than a boatload of debt!

Coaching Football:  Took at the SW Minny.  What a joke, all we did was sit around and argue about football practices.  The head coach at the time was a psych major and had a MA in it so he was interesting to debate with. 

Coaching Basketball:  VH was a good teacher and we did some cool things.  He has a lot of neat stories and we spent the better part of the class talking about the basketball team. 

Wellness in America:  Taught by the D coordinator.  When I showed up it was easy. 

All of my media classes.  We had to do these journals and if you were a good BS artist, as I claim to be, it was the easiest B a guy could acheive.  Now a little effort might have made it an A, but I had better things to worry about like my what barstool I was going to fall off later that night. 

Then I got to my last 3 semesters and had to take 18 credits each semester to make it out in time.  These were 18 credits with all upper level major classes so needless to stay my back was against the wall.  The funny thing was, in my first two years I got a 2.5 and my last 3 semesters got a 3.3 GPA.  Maybe I wasnt challenged with all the cupcakes!!!

[Old Dutch]

Physical Geography with Vorris King;  8:00 a.m. Winter Term.  Even though 8 a.m. is brutal, it was key because if we had a good cold front coming through he'd talk nationwide weather patterns all day while we were all back to sleep.  The most important thing for class was your attendance.

[Old Dutch]

I think IIAC motto fits the model set by Readlyn, IA, who claim a bunch of nice folks and 1 old grump:  We'd be "70 Football fans and 1 clown"  We can vote for the clown each year.


And when we vote, in honor of Chicago politics:  "Vote early-Vote often"   

I nominate Showme for the 2008 clown of the IIAC award.  Every post made me laugh.

And the award shall be named in his honor.

[doolittledog]

A friend of mine from high school went to BV.  She told me how she had a boy friend break up with her during finals week.  She went to her professor and told her she was too emotional to take the final.  The prof told her not to worry about it and she didn't need to take the final.  She would just use the grade she already had. 

I never had the guts to try that. 

I did have an algebra class that I was worried about going into the final.  After I took the final I talked to the professor and asked about my grade.  He took out his grade book and said he noticed I went from an A to a B- to a D+ in my previous tests.  He then asked what grade I thought I deserved.  I thought for a moment and told him B-.  He looked at me, looked at the grade book, then wrote B- on my final and shook my hand and said "congratulations"  I then hurried out of the room!!!

[dutchfan1]

A friend of mine from high school went to BV.  She told me how she had a boy friend break up with her during finals week.  She went to her professor and told her she was too emotional to take the final.  The prof told her not to worry about it and she didn't need to take the final.  She would just use the grade she already had. 

I never had the guts to try that. 

I once decided that I needed more time to finish a paper (*cough*) so I turned in a paper for another class with the assigned paper's cover sheet. By the time the prof had discovered my "mistake" I had bought plenty of time to finish the paper with gusto. An effusive apology later, I was on my way to an A.

I won't tell you what I did the night I should have been writing my paper in the first place. 

[dutchfan1]

X Files? Star Trek? You kids had it easy!

The PE classes were my easiest.  You know -- bowling, dance.

Dance, eh? Mrs. Coco always says you are pretty light on your feet. 

[BeaverOfYore]

Geology with Dr. Steven Tonsfeldt.  One of the easiest classes ever, but also very interesting.  On test days he would leave the room and say, "Guys, I know I can trust you not to cheat, so when I walk back in the room at exactly 12:45, I better not seeing anyone looking at someone else's paper."  Lab days were Friday afternoons.  We were supposed to do activities in our geology workbook from 1:00 to 3:00, but for some odd reason he was under the impression we had an away game every week that fall.  Of course that meant we had to leave by 1:30 to pack for the road trip.  It didn't matter that we didn't do the activities because at the end of the semester he decided not to collect them because he didn't feel like correcting that much homework. 

The absolute highlight of my college experience (in a class setting, at least) was our field trip to look at fossils in Nebraska.  We stopped at Perkins for breakfast and Famous Dave's for lunch.  When we asked if there was a spending limit, he pulled out the University credit card, held it up, and said, "Harold Walter Siebens said you can order whatever you like."  Needless to say, the football players in the group enjoyed steak and eggs and full racks of ribs that day.

[Mr. Ypsi]

BoY,

I sure hope the statute of limitations on NCAA violations has expired!

[Dsquared]

My 4 May terms at Wartburg:

1st year: "Intro to CAD drawing"... aka, draw 3D objects on your notepad that I draw on the board and put them into a computer program.  Final: build a working sundial.  No test, barely any discussion, grade = A.

2nd year: I don't remember the class name, but it was another engineering one with the same professor.  Final: build pyramids, cuz he thought they were cool.

3rd year: European tour with WB choir.  Wowzers... highlight of the early trip was Walston Hoover dancing a jig to a Slovenian guy playing the accordion.  I have video evidence.

4th year: "Ethics" with Dr. Alexander.  This was the only mayterm left open after I opted out of Outdoor Rec cuz my buddy was supposed to be getting married during Mayterm.  Not kidding... 2 weeks after I switched my schedule around, the chick broke off the wedding with my buddy.  Ethics was from 8-11 every day for the last month of my college career.  This guy was a hardcore atheist, so I always enjoyed good discussions of why he thought religious people were ignorant... he actually respected that I could carry on a coherent discussion when I was visibly hungover 95% of the time.