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Re: The 56 Geeks
« Reply #45 on: January 14, 2008, 05:34:26 am »
I took a class over Sub-Saharan African Music and its Caribbean influences and I fuck*ng loved it and got a super easy A.  Lots of people in my class had trouble with it, but I doubt that would be an issue for you.  Take it and drop another.


Edit:  Ah, it was in summer school though, and I found summer classes to be super fuck*ng easy as a rule, so... I would still take it though.  My class was pretty sweet.
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Re: The 56 Geeks
« Reply #46 on: January 14, 2008, 05:50:18 am »
yeah, the other option is my Fiction Writing class. Which I really want to take, but the first email he sent us basically makes me think I'll dislike the grad student teaching it. or else, i'm reading the email in the wrong tone, and I will love him immediately and utterly.
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Re: The 56 Geeks
« Reply #47 on: January 14, 2008, 06:53:33 am »
Quote from: theinevitable on January 14, 2008, 05:50:18 am
yeah, the other option is my Fiction Writing class. Which I really want to take, but the first email he sent us basically makes me think I'll dislike the grad student teaching it. or else, i'm reading the email in the wrong tone, and I will love him immediately and utterly.

My guess is that your linguistics class would either be incredible or lousy -- no middle ground.  Could you do a little more research on the guy?  Maybe meet him or talk to some people who've taken the class?  If you get a good feel, I'd say go for it.

On the other hand, the two Fiction Writing classes I took at Wash U were amazing.  Stanley Elkin and Lee Abbot.  Kickass.
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Re: The 56 Geeks
« Reply #48 on: January 14, 2008, 10:35:16 am »
Yeah Inev, I would say don't overwhelm yourself, if you take too many subjects they'll all suffer. Take the cool course, you could always make it up with an extra semester, after three or four years another six months ain't no big thing.
One of the best courses I've ever taken was a first year statistics course where the professor wrote the text and the main program we used for statistical calculations. He was an awesomely likeable maths geek that just wanted people to love statistics as much as he did.
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Re: The 56 Geeks
« Reply #49 on: January 14, 2008, 04:11:28 pm »
Quote from: Arachno-capitalist on January 14, 2008, 04:44:46 am
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I can see why this would bother you personally, but from a purely libertarian stance, I don't see what's wrong with it.
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Re: The 56 Geeks
« Reply #50 on: January 14, 2008, 11:21:41 pm »
Hm. I am going to at least go to the class tomorrow to see what it is like. A bunch of my friends are in the music class, also.
Another factor is that the linguistics thing only meets one day a week, for three hours at once. Crazy.
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Re: The 56 Geeks
« Reply #51 on: January 15, 2008, 12:48:10 am »
Quote from: theinevitable on January 14, 2008, 11:21:41 pm
Another factor is that the linguistics thing only meets one day a week, for three hours at once. Crazy.

Those were my favorite classes as an undergrad, and pretty much all I took as a grad student. 

But then, I am an academic masochist, so...YMMV. 
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Re: The 56 Geeks
« Reply #52 on: January 15, 2008, 01:00:09 am »
YMMV?

Plus, me too.  I think we have been over this topic too.
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Re: The 56 Geeks
« Reply #53 on: January 15, 2008, 01:14:45 am »
Quote from: KeithHernandez on January 15, 2008, 01:00:09 am
YMMV?

Plus, me too.  I think we have been over this topic too.
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Re: The 56 Geeks
« Reply #54 on: January 15, 2008, 01:15:08 am »
"Your Mileage May Vary"... interestingly, if I was ever going to do an online comic that was all one-offs, such as PBF as is being discussed in other threads, that was alway going to be my title for it.

Except that I don't know how to build a webpage, I don't know how to manipulate a drawing in my computer and I can actually only draw a little to begin with.

Sadly, of course, these are all deal-breakers to doing an online comic.
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Re: The 56 Geeks
« Reply #55 on: January 15, 2008, 01:38:33 am »
I... I thought you were going to go for saying that none of those are deal-breakers, based on the comics that exist.
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Re: The 56 Geeks
« Reply #56 on: January 15, 2008, 01:49:12 am »
It would be a dealbreaker if you weren't canned for that one, Nev. Good thing you were.

Honestly, it's a lot more that middle one... my complete ignorance toward digitally manipulating a scan, near-total lack of Photoshop literacy and all that... that has actually prevented me from ever giving an online comic a real try.

I draw better than a lot of online comics, really, even though I don't draw that well and... I have enough friends who understand how to build a webpage who could set me up with something simple that I could update myself...

It's that middle part that kills me.

Hand-drawn, scanned in with no other tweaking and dumped onto the net... looks childishly ugly. I could get a friend or two to build me a bare-bones site, I definitely could not get someone to digitally clean up my comic three to four times a week, that's asking way too much without remuneration.
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