USC Structural/Earthquake Engineering

[asdfjkl]

Does anyone know about USC Structural/Earthquake Engineering Dept.? (faculties, research, courses/program?)

[fuzzylogician]

At least part of this information is available to you online via the departmental website. You'll probably get better results if you ask specific questions and people don't feel like you want them to do very basic research about the program for you. If you don't get answers here, you could try to contact the DGS or current grad students at USC with your questions. Good luck!

[teaganc]

fuzzylogician-

Do you feel like a total old person sometimes? Because I wanted to sigh, then say exactly what you just said, and in my mind it was immediately followed with, "And you kids get off my lawn!"

[Tobson]

lol - guys, that's what I am thinking all the time. I am glad somebody spoke it out. It is not called theUNDERgradcafe...

[fuzzylogician]

lol - I think of this site as therapy. I can tell people here what I want to tell the undergrads I teach - (in a nostalgic tone): when I was your age we used to at least work on the problem on our own for a while before we came to ask the teacher for the answers - without worrying about angry parents calling... Ah, youth .

[teaganc]

lol - I think of this site as therapy. I can tell people here what I want to tell the undergrads I teach - (in a nostalgic tone): when I was your age we used to at least work on the problem on our own for a while before we came to ask the teacher for the answers - without worrying about angry parents calling... Ah, youth .

Wow, that's what you would say to undergrads but can't? It was so polite and helpful! Unlike you, I have an endless supply of snark which needs to be toned down for communities that don't appreciate its awesomeness (like Grad Cafe).

[fuzzylogician]

Wow, that's what you would say to undergrads but can't?

There's so much I'd like to tell them but refrain from saying. I keep repeating to myself: stay nice, you might want a job here one day!. Luckily, it seems my tone conveys my thoughts without my actually having to say them out loud. My school passes these end-of-semester questionnaires to all students where they tell instructors what they thought of the course. Several of my students commented to the effect that "she's a smart girl who obviously knows her stuff, but doesn't really seem to like undergrads." Ha! I'm sitting there thinking: "Umm, I don't come to class half as prepared as you think, and I only mind students who kill their grandmas* off twice a semester for an extension on their homework, not all of you". 8)

* did anyone else notice that students are likelier to choose their grandmother to be the dead grandparent, not their grandfather? I've started to notice a trend among my students: 4 grandmothers this year, only one grandfather. And my friends who TA other courses tell me that these super-grandparents have died more than once this year!