Your most memorable or favorite course

Skipper07 said:
Well, I'm only a semester in. So far its HH104- Naval History with Prof. McBride. He's a grad, but I swear it is impossible to find out what year. I learned a lot and genuinely had a great time. He is very knowledgeable and hilarious.
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I think it could be 1974. I took at look at lists of things he had published (cool list) and their dates, correlated those to various degrees he obtained/where he was teaching, and guesstimated the early 70’s. I then cruised the digital records of the Lucky Bag and found a William M. McBride in 1974.

I think if you go to the visitor desk in Halsey just outside the store area, they have a terminal where you can look up grads. Tourists walk in saying “my great grandfather was here, but I don’t know what class.”

I have heard he’s a fair prof who keeps things interesting.
 
Capt MJ said:
....Two of my favorite quotes:

“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”....
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Agreed. Two groups of people with whom we have interactions that we won't forget:

1. Those that mistreat us.
2. Those that are kind to us.

As an aside.. I am enrolled in an 'unaccredited' Humanities course that is surveying some of Dr. MLK's work. Easily some of the best reflective material from mid twentieth century America I've encountered.

Stanford has an extensive library of Dr. King's work. A link to his last pulpit sermon follows:

Stanford Login - Stale Request

kinginstitute.stanford.edu kinginstitute.stanford.edu

For all who might have a minute (or two) on MLK day to ponder his continuing influence.
 
#007Boa said:
Agreed. Two groups of people with whom we have interactions that we won't forget:

1. Those that mistreat us.
2. Those that are kind to us.

As an aside.. I am enrolled in an 'unaccredited' Humanities course that is surveying some of Dr. MLK's work. Easily some of the best reflective material from mid twentieth century America I've encountered.

Stanford has an extensive library of Dr. King's work. A link to his last pulpit sermon follows:

Stanford Login - Stale Request

kinginstitute.stanford.edu kinginstitute.stanford.edu

For all who might have a minute (or two) on MLK day to ponder his continuing influence.
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One of my favorites from Dr. King:

“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?'”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
 
flieger83 said:
"Dr. Clem Kadiddlehoper, PHD."
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You're kidding..I've used the name Klem Keddiddlehoper as a nom de guerre for years. I wonder if we are related ?

I'll have to think about the most memorable course... of hand, it was a History of Modern Warfare class at USNA 2nd Class year. Teacher was an Army Major, and pretty cool guy. He had the class over to watch Dr. Strangelove. I will never forget bringing the request chit into my Company Officer (a USMC Major). Company Officer looks at me, laughs.....and says it looks like Major Alexander's throwing a party ....Yes, it sure was.

Most memorable class is easy ... when I was a NAPS, we visited USNA for a weekend. While we there, the Plebes had a mandatory Friday night Chemistry lecture, subject "Explosives." A very energetic civilian professor gave a very entertaining (and informative) lecture on the composition and design of different types of explosives , including setting off kabooms at random intervals.. Kept us on the edge of our seats. (Rumor is that he cracked plaster in the lecture hall, and wasn't permitted to do the lecture anymore. ).
 
Old Navy BGO said:
You're kidding..I've used the name Klem Keddiddlehoper as a nom de guerre for years. I wonder if we are related ?

I'll have to think about the most memorable course... of hand, it was a History of Modern Warfare class at USNA 2nd Class year. Teacher was an Army Major, and pretty cool guy. He had the class over to watch Dr. Strangelove. I will never forget bringing the request chit into my Company Officer (a USMC Major). Company Officer looks at me, laughs.....and says it looks like Major Alexander's throwing a party ....Yes, it sure was.

Most memorable class is easy ... when I was a NAPS, we visited USNA for a weekend. While we there, the Plebes had a mandatory Friday night Chemistry lecture, subject "Explosives." A very energetic civilian professor gave a very entertaining (and informative) lecture on the composition and design of different types of explosives , including setting off kabooms at random intervals.. Kept us on the edge of our seats. (Rumor is that he cracked plaster in the lecture hall, and wasn't permitted to do the lecture anymore. ).
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I wish my Chem prof was that great. Maybe I would of done better in it!
 
1st class year I took a class in Opera appreciation. To my surprise- it was really fascinating and I learned to love Opera (which made my Dad happy - a painful staple of my childhood was sitting in the car on the way to NYC listening to radio broadcasts of the Texaco - Metropolitan Opera broadcast on Saturday afternoon with “your host Milton Cross”). I’ve managed to get my wife to a couple of performances over our 35 year marriage- sadly I am apparently not nearly as talented a teacher as I had at VMI 🙄
 
@bruno Was that the NYT radio station WQXR? I remember going to the dentist as a child & he had opera on from that station. Probably why I never liked opera-LOL
FYI They still play opera on Saturday afternoons!
 
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