... makes me chuckle.

By the last semester of my senior year at Vanderbilt, I had maxed out on my major and minors, and I was ready to "get the hell out and conquer the world". After loading up my last semester schedule with 15 hours of meaningful and challenging subjects, I was in a quandry as to what to top it off with to have the needed 18 semester hours to graduate. Just for the hell of it, since I had endured a rather rigorous academic workload for 3.5 years while working 35 hours per week, I thought I would take my first "crip" course just to pass the time, so I signed up for Sociology 101 heh heh heh. What a bunch of worthless manufactured bullshit. The only thing I learned that made any sense is "compliance breeds hostility" ... so, just get hostile in advance, punch 'em in the nose and you won't ever be "compliant" ... that's easy!:)

But, the concept that I loved the most: "Riots are caused by breakdowns in norms." Just think, if I had had a bullhorn during the riots in Watts, Los Angeles, I could have run out in the midst of the gunfire, baseball bats and gasoline-filled Coke bottles and shouted: "FOLKS! STOP! LISTEN TO ME! YOU DON'T HAVE TO DO THIS! WHAT WE HAVE HERE IS A BREAKDOWN IN NORMS! ...". Of course, I wouldn't be alive to tell you this little "sociological" anecdote.

What was the worst subject that you ever took in undergrad? Best? I switched from pre-med to business because I became totally bored with advanced chemistry, biology and comparative anatomy. The fundamental business courses, accounting, marketing, finance and economics were just that ... fundamental ... and have proven eternally useful. But my faves were Business Law, Philosophy, Music, History of Art and Architecture, and Russian Literature. I also enjoyed Analytical Chemistry (Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis). And, my real love was my job during my last two years at Vandy as a Systems/Programmer Analyst at National Life & Accident Insurance Company. Computing wasn't even an academic subject back then (1960-1964), and the only places for training were "on the job" and IBM Systems and Programming classes. I went to school 6 days a wek from 8AM to 11AM, and worked 5 days a week from 11:15AM to 7:15PM, studied, and still had ample time to party on the weekends.