What courses did you have this semester?

[Agathon]

From what I've read Plato doesn't seem to hate art as much as some would want him to.

Republic Book X.

[Adagio]

You mean you people actually have many choices?
At one of the schools I've been to we only had choices like Math, English, IT, philosophy and stuff like that
The next school (getting an education in software-enginering) it took us 1½ year before we got to the choices part and out of the 4 "choices" we had 2 was not optional (even though they said so!?!). The last 2 was web-programming (a bit java-scrip, a bit asp.net, etc) and embedded programming. I "only" picked web-programming beause I could see what would happen in the other class: nothing (they didn't learn anything)... of course in the course I took we learned almost nothing, but more than in the other class


Anyway, this year I have been taking courses in sleeping late

[Skanky Burns]

Macroeconomics
Business Statistics
Organisations and Management

[Shi Huangdi]

Economics of the Middle East: A
Public Finance: A
Economics in the Shadow of the Law(Honors Seminar): A
Labor Economics: A+
Social Psychology: A

[Lawrence of Arabia]

good news! i just killed my last econ midterm, scoring 22 points above the minimum for an A and over 70 points above the average. thats enough to put me 25 points above an A cumulative, excluding homework (only 10%, but ive got an A in that too)

[Alex Woehr]

Physical Chemistry II
Analytical Chemistry
Modern Physics
History of Music II
Advanced Aural Skills II

Please don't ask about my grades!

[Drogue]

Microeconomics
Macroeconomics
Maths for Economics
Stats for Economics
Management (double course)

Have exams in 4 weeks. I got a 69 average last term in mocks, so hoping to get a distinction/first (70+) in the real thing. It means I get a scholars gown and some money from college I don't deserve it though, I work a lot less than most people on my course.

Next two years taking:
Adv. Micro
Adv. Macro
Strategy
Finance
Economics of Developing Nations
Public Economics
Econometrics
Economic Decisions Within the Firm

2 maths, 2 management, 2 applied economics and 2 economic theory modules. A nice balance I think

[Traianvs]

-Archaeology of the neolithic
-Archaeology of Mesopotamia
-Archaeology of the Eastern Mediterranean: Hellenistic-Roman period
-Institutions of the Roman Empire
-Philosophy of antiquity
-Museum and exhibition knowledge (eh that's just some teachings of how to run museums and **** like that)
-Spanish 1st year

And 2 additional exams, one of some stuff bout Northern-England remains, and another one concerning literature about my thesis

=> ultimate torture..

[Shi Huangdi]

to all the Econ majors.

[Fake Boris]

Originally posted by Agathon

From what I've read Plato doesn't seem to hate art as much as some would want him to.

Republic Book X.

I'm not that ignorant.

Anyway, Plato pretty much own goals himself in this part - his arguments suck.

[Drogue]

Originally posted by DaShi
When I was in college, I was taking no less than 6 classes a semester. Only Kuci's highschool schedule looks right to me. The rest of you look lazy.

Depends what classes they are. Here every subject has 3-4 exams (prelims or mods) in the first year and 8 in the 3rd year (finals). But then we wouldn't have a course in algebra, or differential equations, we'd have one in maths of which those would be a part of it.

[Agathon]

Anyway, Plato pretty much own goals himself in this part - his arguments suck.

And which arguments are his, pray tell? I do not see him as a character in the dialogue.

[Fake Boris]

Originally posted by Agathon
And which arguments are his, pray tell? I do not see him as a character in the dialogue.

Given Plato's attitude towards art, that is a strange mix.

Then...

Republic Book X.

Are you saying that Republic X isn't about Plato's stance on art?

[Agathon]

Sure it is, but that is a separate question from whether he endorses particular arguments in Book X, or whether or not some of those arguments are intended to be supplemented from elsewhere in the Republic or from other dialogues, or whether you are meant to supply the missing premises yourself.

[Fake Boris]

OK.

The general feel I got from reading 3 or 4 dialogues is more like him saying "art is fine, but stop giving it some undue credit as if it was super great and super universal", just like he says that sophists are okay, however we should not take them for the experts they aren't.