January 2, 2009
Four For Friday
Q1 - Admission: Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, is considering whether to raise its academic admission requirements so that students earning non-honors high school diplomas wouldn't be accepted. Do you think it's okay for public colleges and universities to require such rigid entrance requirements, or, should public colleges and universities consider each applicant on his or her own merits regardless of whether they graduated high school with honors?
Q2 - Feelings: What matches your mood right now?
Q3 - Co-Workers: If you could choose anyone--dead or alive--as a co-worker, who would you like to work with and what position within your company would that person hold?
Q4 - Ownership: If you are with a small group of people (i.e., in a car or small conference room) and you initiate a silent-but-deadly flatulent emission, do you own up to it or simply ignore it and hope everyone else does the same?
Posted by Mikal at January 2, 2009 7:25 PM
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1- Seems like they will miss out on some excellent students by using such an arbitrary thing as honors. Lots of good students don't have honors diplomas.
2- Mostly laid back, pretty excited about Utah's BCS win.
3- Mikal Belicove, Director of Education
4- I wait for someone to notice, so I can tell just how epic it was, then claim it.
1) Admission: It must be a HUGE undertaking to look at each applicant, but I would hope that a public university would look at each applicant equally. That being said, taking and maintaining good grades in honors classes certainly says a lot about a student - maybe it's a good base line to begin with.... in other words - I don't know.
2) Feelings: Hmm... fuzzy slippers, a super soft bear skin rug, a huge roaring fire and a glass of an expensive red wine... yep, that's a match.
3) Co-Workers: Walt Disney...I mean, right?!
4) Ownership: Honestly - I have never encountered the situation, but I guess it would depend on the company. I do have a friend who is extremely proud of his bodily noises and shares a little too readily for my tastes.
1. I think it's elitist. Sounds like Purdue wants to have a certain type of reputation. I don't think it's right or fair. People excell at their own pace.
2. Actually, right now I am in a good mood, my belly's full, and I'm cozy and warm.
3. Jesus was the first person to come to mind. How cool would it be to hang out with him? He could give me some good insider advice about life.
4. Hasn't happened, but I'd try to ignore it and hope others would too.
Q1 - Admission: I used to think that going to college was a privilege that you had to earn. Then I realized the most only care about money. Then you asked me this question, and now I don't have any idea. I suddenly feel dumber somehow. Thanks a lot!
Q2 - Feelings: Umm... wow, tough question. Apathetic?
Q3 - Co-Workers: My first thought was my friend Brad whom I gamble with a lot. But then I realized the ability to lose money at the roulette wheel isn't helpful where I work. So I would say Mikal Belicove, and he would be Stu's Assistant. I honestly can't think of anybody who I know that would worker harder for me. You might have thought that to be typical kissing up when I worked for you, but now that I don't work for you, I still said it.
Q4 - Ownership: This brings to mind the time I let one fly, quite loudly, in front of my-wife-then-girlfriend for the first time. It wasn't intentional. Just kinda snuck out. Which was weird. You'd think a tank rumbling out of your back end would offer up some kind of warning. But alas, no. By that point in my life, I had learned that lying about such things is pointless and gets you nowhere. But now that I'm older, I realize that lying sometimes DOES get you somewhere, so I often blame it on my kids. Although I have yet to convince any of my kids that that what I did was actually them. Kids not being available, I'll own up.
Q1: Since Mikal honored my alma mater by posting a question about it, I figure I should honor his blog by posting a comment. I agree wholeheartedly with raising the academic bar for entrance into colleges and universities. I know that Purdue invests a great deal in remediation programs, but I'm not sure how successful those programs really are. Maybe if colleges started rejecting students who didn't have the skills and discipline to succeed, high schools would step up their game, and we'd see a lower drop-out rate in college. Of course, it this would hurt Purdue's football team, I would be adamantly against it... just kidding.
Q2: Mentally exhausted. That last question nearly killed me.
Q3: Mikal, I already have the offer on the table. All you need to do is move to Crawfordsville.
Q4: Ignore it unless directly asked whether I'm the culprit, in which case, I glance in someone else's direction to suggest that maybe the aroma wafted in from that direction.
Just posted mine.
Great questions.
Wishing you a fabulous you and all a fantabulous New Year
Q1 - Admission: In response to Joe's quote: "Maybe if colleges started rejecting students who didn't have the skills and discipline to succeed, high schools would step up their game, and we'd see a lower drop-out rate in college."
Dad, you do realize that I went to Wabash College after receiving the most rigorous academic diploma my high school offered and dropped out after only three years, don't you?
According to the information Wabash got from me during my application process I had more than the necessary "skills and discipline to succeed," but I didn't. I don't see how that would help anything. Some of the smartest kids I knew in high school became college drop-outs, at least for a time, and not just at Wabash, and not just from Speedway.
I don't think that academic success in high school is really much of a determining factor of whether or not someone will succeed in college. A more important part of collegial success is finding the right school with the right programs, people, and support systems to help get you through.
Q2 - Feelings: Icy Hot Commercials...the ones with Shaq in them. I'm big and I'm majorly sore.
Q3 - Co-Workers: Ever since I first saw "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" I've wanted to work with Richard Burton.
Q4 - Ownership: If people are absolutely apalled by the scent I will most often claim it proudly, but I usually let is go and hope no one notices.
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