Rutherford Staying at GT

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gtee91 said:
No..it was great...of course i had always been an avid swimmer...had to drag a few classmates out of the deep end who did not enjoy it as much 🙃
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Haha! I got credit for drown-proofing by playing baseball for Tech. That, personal
satisfaction and moving to the front of the line in Heisman gym for course selections, was what I got as a student athlete. (They didn’t offer baseball scholarships or aid back in those days…)
 
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g0lftime said:
I have lived through this evolution from mainframe punch cards to voice recognition and AI. I did start with the old log log decitrig sliderule. Also we went to the moon with engineers using sliderules. Scarry thought isn't it. Computers have been around a long time now, just different. I worked in that industry my entire career. Saw huge changes. My sense of humor is somewhat tempered by the hours I spent punching computer card decks and spending the night in my car waiting to see if my Fortran program ran in the computer center. So much fun!!!
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I worked at robbery and likely sold the KE or Post slide rule to you or fellow tech student.

I to did the xx#@!! typo on one damn card and the mfxx$% computer spit out and didnt run my program. But my business life was changed when i bought the ibm 64 64 pc w printers. Quit a great job and started my own engr company and never looked back.
 

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iceeater1969 said:
I worked at robbery and likely sold the KE or Post slide rule to you or fellow tech student.

I to did the xx#@!! typo on one damn card and the mfxx$% computer spit out and didnt run my program. But my business life was changed when i bought the ibm 64 64 pc w printers. Quit a great job and started my own engr company and never looked back.
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Ice,
One of the my lowest points at Tech was cold Windy winter night when I picked up my punch cards (Fortran) outside the computer bldg and the rubber band holding them BROKE. The wind carried then everywhere. Only 5 hrs time mostly lost in a second. ---ah, Tech.
 

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I had a guy for Dynamics, maybe Armstrong (everyone called him liver lips), who came to class with his slide rule in a case on his belt. About half way through the quarter he came in with a HP 35. He was working a problem on the board and started punching numbers on his calculator, and after several attempts got out his slide rule to finish the calculation. When I tell younger folks that story they look at me like I can’t possibly be telling the truth.
 

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Got to Tech at the time slide rules were becoming obsolete, never did use one. Had a simple Radio Shack calculator that didn’t do much more than multiply or divide. The serious nerds all had one of the Texas Instruments TI-35 models. As an architectural major never had to take any computer courses. I do recall friends coming back from the computer center literally in tears because their program had been spit back at them.
 

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tomknight said:
Man, me too. I never remember NOT knowing how to swim. I was shocked that you could be 20 yrs old and not know.

I had an A after a few weeks. I spent most of my team rescuing other kids.
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You guys were all making fun of whatever that swim class was called..."Drown Proofing"? Seems like a good idea to me if you had classmates that did not know how to swim. I can't believe there were teenagers that did not know how to swim. I was a lifeguard for 5 summers during college and graduate school and never had to save anyone but one night there was an after hours party at the club with Braves players, girl friends, some Atlanta Flames hockey players etc. A bunch of them could not swim and were drinking. I was on my toes that night for sure.
 
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Root4GT said:
Why would that be a problem. He is a good player. He makes GT a better team. We work to flop commits all the time regardless of them being from HS or the Portal.
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I only meant that I wasn't sure what the rules were pertaining to being in the portal and signing with another team and whether or not he is allowed to return within the same portal period. Obviously if you enter the portal and change your mind like Malik did, there is no problem. I just was not sure if it was still a possibility for someone that put pen to paper with another school, if in fact that is what Height did. I hope he did change his mind and I agree with your other points.
 

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78pike said:
I only meant that I wasn't sure what the rules were pertaining to being in the portal and signing with another team and whether or not he is allowed to return within the same portal period. Obviously if you enter the portal and change your mind like Malik did, there is no problem. I just was not sure if it was still a possibility for someone that put pen to paper with another school, if in fact that is what Height did. I hope he did change his mind and I agree with your other points.
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Point of clarification. Malik did not enter the portal. He said he planned to after the bowl game, but never entered.
 
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78pike said:
I only meant that I wasn't sure what the rules were pertaining to being in the portal and signing with another team and whether or not he is allowed to return within the same portal period. Obviously if you enter the portal and change your mind like Malik did, there is no problem. I just was not sure if it was still a possibility for someone that put pen to paper with another school, if in fact that is what Height did. I hope he did change his mind and I agree with your other points.
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Malik never went into the Portal. However, Tatem did last year and Key welcomed him back tot the team after Santucci said he wanted him back.
 

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Heisman's Ghost said:
You guys were all making fun of whatever that swim class was called..."Drown Proofing"? Seems like a good idea to me if you had classmates that did not know how to swim. I can't believe there were teenagers that did not know how to swim. I was a lifeguard for 5 summers during college and graduate school and never had to save anyone but one night there was an after hours party at the club with Braves players, girl friends, some Atlanta Flames hockey players etc. A bunch of them could not swim and were drinking. I was on my toes that night for sure.
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DP was ok if you were not a "sinker" like me.Coach's last words that qtr were "pull him off the bottom".
 
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I never had to take it since I did three quarters of joint enrollment at a community college as a Hs senior. I was exempted a PE for each quarter.
 
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Heisman's Ghost said:
You guys were all making fun of whatever that swim class was called..."Drown Proofing"? Seems like a good idea to me if you had classmates that did not know how to swim. I can't believe there were teenagers that did not know how to swim. I was a lifeguard for 5 summers during college and graduate school and never had to save anyone but one night there was an after hours party at the club with Braves players, girl friends, some Atlanta Flames hockey players etc. A bunch of them could not swim and were drinking. I was on my toes that night for sure.
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There was a kid from Haiti in my class I had to jump in and save. Haiti for crying out loud.

And my partner from Mass who i saved daily, as well as a bunch of others. In my class of about 50, I think 10 of us were strong swimmers, so we had to play lifeguard the rest of the time.

That duty kept me from talking to the 1 girl in the class.
 
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