And Here I Am

[knitress]

A small look inside my head this morning:

It's not quite noon and I'm doing ok for someone who slept until nearly 9am.  I've had breakfast AND lunch (food is important, after all), I'm dressed (what, yoga pants and a Dr Who tee doesn't count as dressed?) and I have this week's recipe in the crock pot (I'm trying to cook once a week.  This time it's

Comments

[tenel]

Oh I love that lentil soup but I added more carrots and onions because I love veggies. Oh and the vegetarian bacon does NOT provide the flavor kick that the turkey bacon does. I've never tried the pork bacon. Just can't bring myself to it. It is flavorful and now on my to do list for next week. THANKS for the reminder. I love this soup!

[anirt]

When I was on trimesters (10 wks ea), three courses was a full load. I thought quarters were trimesters but with an extra in the summer. No?

[knitress]

Yup, quarters/trimesters is a distinction without a difference. But full load for me was always four 3 hour classes (until grad school, then it was three). Stanford does a 45 hours a year thing, which means 15 hours a semester = 4 three hour classes + a couple of hours of section/lab each quarter. That sounds about right to me.

You could do a three course load while keeping full time student status, but you weren't going to graduate on time if you did that every term and didn't come in with credits.

But I may have been too tough on her; I just googled Stanford undergrad and it looks like she might be enrolled in a 5hr engineering vector calc class. Which would make it easier to understand Zumba :-).

[anirt]

From my experience, it does sound like there was a difference. At Lawrence, you were perfectly fine taking 3 courses each term and graduating in 4 years. We did not really have anyone do less than full-time -- I'm not even sure if there was a published tuition schedule if you did less than full-time. OTOH, there were no additional fees if you overloaded, either

[knitress]

There's the difference. At Stanford the classes were shorter; a MWF definitely was NOT 70 minutes each session. So Lawrence is covering more material in each quarter, but students take fewer classes each quarter. Over four years it evens out.

Stanford was like Northwestern, which is why I was assume that's what anyplace on quarters "has" to use this system. Oddly enough, after being a student on quarters I only taught on semesters!

[knitress]

Next time you come visit I will make spaetzle :-)