Re: Effects of transit on congestion


David Friedman wrote:


So far as "tougher courses," I couldn't find details, but courses
mentioned for Kerry seem to be mostly political science and history. He
took French and got a C (77). Bush took Japanese and got a "high pass."
Kerry's highest grade was in political science his senior year, Bush's
in anthropology, history, and philosophy.

That suggests to me that it was Bush who was taking tougher courses,
although you would have to know a lot more to be sure.

Possible, i suppose. I, however, am remembering courses at Georgia
Tech in the mid-70s -- Geology 101 (known to one and all as "Rocks for
Jocks"), for example, or a Textile Engineering course that had a high
proportion of football players among its enrollees that was essentially
basket-weaving...

A comparison with Gore:

" Gore arrived at Harvard with an impressive 1355 SAT score, 625 verbal
and 730 math,

Heh -- mine was substantially higher than that (nlot to brag; among
this grouip i suspect i'm hardly unique in that regard...)

compared with Bush's 1206 total from 566 verbal and 640
math. In his sophomore year at Harvard, Gore's grades were lower than
any semester recorded on Bush's transcript from Yale. That was the year
Gore's classmates remember him spending a notable amount of time in the
Dunster House basement lounge shooting pool, watching television, eating
hamburgers and occasionally smoking marijuana. His grades temporarily
reflected his mildly experimental mood, and alarmed his parents. He
received one D, one C-minus, two C's, two C-pluses and one B-minus, an
effort that placed him in the lower fifth of the class for the second
year in a row.

And i did LOUSY at college, eventually dropping out (though i did go
back some years later, and did quite well, only to drop out again, this
time because of depression...)

For all of Gore's later fascination with science and technology, he
often struggled academically in those subjects. The political champion
of the natural world received that sophomore D in Natural Sciences 6
(Man's Place in Nature) and then got a C-plus in Natural Sciences 118
his senior year. The self-proclaimed inventor of the Internet avoided
all courses in mathematics and logic throughout college, despite his
outstanding score on the math portion of the SAT. As was the case with
many of his classmates, his high school math grades had dropped from A's
to C's as he advanced from trigonometry to calculus in his senior year. "

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A3739
7-2000Mar18

Pretty obviously a hostile summary, but still interesting.

Anything that includes the phrase "self-proclaimed inventor of the
Internet" would be hostile, pretty much.

<snip>

And the only course mentioned that sounds particularly hard for any of
them is Japanese--which Bush took and did well on.

So what is a "high pass"? Is there a grade-equvalent, or does it mean
that he did slightly better than the miniumum required to pass the
course on a pass/fail basis? (Which, i believe, at most schools where
i've seen the option, would not be included in one's overall average.)

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