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<blockquote data-quote="GTpdm" data-source="post: 543384" data-attributes="member: 1451"><p>I'll take that one step further. The whole "At GT you have to take calculus" gets thrown out here all the time, followed be the inevitable, "but I never use calculus in my job" responses that I've see here. Guess what? The ability to learn some calculus <u>will open doors</u> (definitely, at the STEM level, but also even at the business/liberal arts "Survey of Calculus" level). It does not matter if you "use" calculus every day(*); the point is that you've learned something about how quantifiable things <em>change</em>..and employers value that.</p><p></p><p>The whole, "if you go to GT you have to take calculus" meme needs to be replaced by, "if you go to Tech you will get a chance to learn some calculus, <u>and it will open doors for you that would otherwise remain closed</u>." This. Is. Truth. We need to sell it. I've seen a number of people here talk about what we as fans/boosters should be saying to promote our new recruiting initiative...this is one of them: we all need to get on board and emphasize that "having to take calculus" is not a negative—it is positive...a huge positive. In fact, it is a Super-Power that other programs <u>will not offer</u> to their student athletes.</p><p></p><p>Pass this by Coach Collins, and see what he has to say. Dollars for doughnuts he adds it to his felix-the-cat bag of tricks...</p><p></p><p>(*) As I tell my (physics) students every semester, "I'm not an idiot. I know that when you are working professionally ten years from now, no one is going to bust into your office freaking out and babbling, "ohmyGodthereisacrateslidingdownaloadingrampinthewarehouseandyouneedtolookupthecoefficientoffrictionandfigureouthowfastthecratewillbemovingwhenitreachesthebottomoftheramp!!!!" The point is that if you can develop the skills to solve that kind of problem, you can do a lot of other things that are way beyond what most people can do—and that is something that employers (big-time employers, not MacDonalds or WalMart) want to see.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GTpdm, post: 543384, member: 1451"] I'll take that one step further. The whole "At GT you have to take calculus" gets thrown out here all the time, followed be the inevitable, "but I never use calculus in my job" responses that I've see here. Guess what? The ability to learn some calculus [U]will open doors[/U] (definitely, at the STEM level, but also even at the business/liberal arts "Survey of Calculus" level). It does not matter if you "use" calculus every day(*); the point is that you've learned something about how quantifiable things [I]change[/I]..and employers value that. The whole, "if you go to GT you have to take calculus" meme needs to be replaced by, "if you go to Tech you will get a chance to learn some calculus, [U]and it will open doors for you that would otherwise remain closed[/U]." This. Is. Truth. We need to sell it. I've seen a number of people here talk about what we as fans/boosters should be saying to promote our new recruiting initiative...this is one of them: we all need to get on board and emphasize that "having to take calculus" is not a negative—it is positive...a huge positive. In fact, it is a Super-Power that other programs [U]will not offer[/U] to their student athletes. Pass this by Coach Collins, and see what he has to say. Dollars for doughnuts he adds it to his felix-the-cat bag of tricks... (*) As I tell my (physics) students every semester, "I'm not an idiot. I know that when you are working professionally ten years from now, no one is going to bust into your office freaking out and babbling, "ohmyGodthereisacrateslidingdownaloadingrampinthewarehouseandyouneedtolookupthecoefficientoffrictionandfigureouthowfastthecratewillbemovingwhenitreachesthebottomoftheramp!!!!" The point is that if you can develop the skills to solve that kind of problem, you can do a lot of other things that are way beyond what most people can do—and that is something that employers (big-time employers, not MacDonalds or WalMart) want to see. [/QUOTE]
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