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<blockquote data-quote="IEEEWreck" data-source="post: 65194" data-attributes="member: 617"><p>A thought: Who among us did or will get out in four? It's a serious (if only occasionally relevant) issue because the four year graduation plans of several schools (including Electrical Engineering) are a widely derided joke. Yeah, you can get out in four- if you take 17-19 hours every semester. It basically means players CAN'T choose to be engineers and football players if they want to. But hell will freeze over before the Institute acknowledges they are designing five year BS programs.</p><p></p><p>I tend to look at this from a motivation standpoint. The people who make it (in every program, including Management) are the people with the mental toughness to take a sucker punch to the family jewels 45 on a test and double down, work twice as hard for the next one. I would put my money on the stubborn student of average intellect over the brilliant student who never thought a test was hard if we were betting on who graduates. </p><p></p><p>For GTAA? That means giving these athletes access to people that teach through example the work ethic needed to get out. In some ways, I think the traditional segregated track for athlete tutoring might be toxic here at Tech. At most schools, it's part of the flash. Separate top quality food, weight room, so why not tutors? At Tech, I think that gets you into a bad head space. I tutor ECE courses through the IEEE Student Branch (accepting donations folks -give the gift of getting out!- ) and the most effective thing I can say to people, especially freshmen and sophomores, is "it's ok, I failed the hell out of that test too, but I still made an A in the class. Everyone else at this table did too. You'll all be ok if you push harder for the next test."</p><p></p><p>I suspect that absent the cultural context of 'hey, everyone else is doing just as bad as I am' it's too easy to think, "oh ****, I failed even with extra special athlete tailored support! There's no way I am cut out for this. " Once you get it in your head that maybe you can't do it, Georgia Tech will eat you alive and prove you right. </p><p></p><p>And while I'd give all the mental and emotional guidance and leadership I could, I'd also give the players no damn choice but to study, and give them audited accountability for doing so. GT asks a lot more of you in the way of maturity and self control than intelligence. That's why we've always been the Georgia Tech men, not the Tech boys.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="IEEEWreck, post: 65194, member: 617"] A thought: Who among us did or will get out in four? It's a serious (if only occasionally relevant) issue because the four year graduation plans of several schools (including Electrical Engineering) are a widely derided joke. Yeah, you can get out in four- if you take 17-19 hours every semester. It basically means players CAN'T choose to be engineers and football players if they want to. But hell will freeze over before the Institute acknowledges they are designing five year BS programs. I tend to look at this from a motivation standpoint. The people who make it (in every program, including Management) are the people with the mental toughness to take a sucker punch to the family jewels 45 on a test and double down, work twice as hard for the next one. I would put my money on the stubborn student of average intellect over the brilliant student who never thought a test was hard if we were betting on who graduates. For GTAA? That means giving these athletes access to people that teach through example the work ethic needed to get out. In some ways, I think the traditional segregated track for athlete tutoring might be toxic here at Tech. At most schools, it's part of the flash. Separate top quality food, weight room, so why not tutors? At Tech, I think that gets you into a bad head space. I tutor ECE courses through the IEEE Student Branch (accepting donations folks -give the gift of getting out!- ) and the most effective thing I can say to people, especially freshmen and sophomores, is "it's ok, I failed the hell out of that test too, but I still made an A in the class. Everyone else at this table did too. You'll all be ok if you push harder for the next test." I suspect that absent the cultural context of 'hey, everyone else is doing just as bad as I am' it's too easy to think, "oh ****, I failed even with extra special athlete tailored support! There's no way I am cut out for this. " Once you get it in your head that maybe you can't do it, Georgia Tech will eat you alive and prove you right. And while I'd give all the mental and emotional guidance and leadership I could, I'd also give the players no damn choice but to study, and give them audited accountability for doing so. GT asks a lot more of you in the way of maturity and self control than intelligence. That's why we've always been the Georgia Tech men, not the Tech boys. [/QUOTE]
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