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> You know that's not real. You can definitely do the James Bond semester at college if you're so inclined, which iirc is: wine tasting, handgun safety, cross
by Alex3917 6y ago
> You know that's not real.
You can definitely do the James Bond semester at college if you're so inclined, which iirc is: wine tasting, handgun safety, cross country skiing, swedish massage, and ballroom dancing.
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- martinflack 6y agoSigh. Where was this wisdom when I was an undergrad...!
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- djmips 6y agocross country skiing? Shouldn't it be downhill?
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- a4isms 6y agoBoth movies and books agree it's downhill. Also what we would call "skeleton" today. And if you go by the books, a course in Bentley repair is not necessary because James "has a guy."
- CoolGuySteve 6y agoWhat college are you people going to? I never saw any of these, not even as clubs, at Waterloo.
- Alex3917 6y agoCornell. The specific classes are: Introduction to Wines: https://sha.cornell.edu/admissions-programs/undergraduate/academics/courses/food-beverage-management/hadm4300/ https://sha.cornell.edu/admissions-programs/undergraduate/ac... Introduction to Handgun Safety: https://courses.cornell.edu/preview_course_nopop.php?catoid=31&coid=493657 https://courses.cornell.edu/preview_course_nopop.php?catoid=... Cross Country Skiing: https://scl.cornell.edu/coe/pe-courses/spring-pe-courses/snow-sports/xcskiing https://scl.cornell.edu/coe/pe-courses/spring-pe-courses/sno... Swedish Massage: https://courses.cornell.edu/preview_course_nopop.php?catoid=31&coid=493634 https://courses.cornell.edu/preview_course_nopop.php?catoid=... Ballroom Dance: https://classes.cornell.edu/browse/roster/SP20/class/PE/1153 https://classes.cornell.edu/browse/roster/SP20/class/PE/1153 Of course the advantage of going to Waterloo is that you can probably pass the Google coding interviews.
- phillc73 6y agoI clearly wasted my time with English Lit, Modern European History, Linguistics and German in my first year at University!
- reaperducer 6y agoDon't feel bad. I wasted my time with Soviet Studies. Oops.
- jascii 6y agoSomething tells me that that is still pretty relevant...
- 908B64B197 6y agoI mean, Cornell is an Ivy, not a regional school.
- t0mas88 6y agoI thought you were joking, but handgun safety really is a college class... Just wow.
- _whiteCaps_ 6y agoI took Introduction to Wine Science as my 'non engineering' course. Lab component was tasting - but you had to spit it out. It was one of the hardest courses I took at university - so much memorization of various wine regions around the world, grape varietals, etc.
- jebeng 6y ago> at Waterloo. That's your problem, but at you had: Underwater Linux .iso Distributing The Computational Fluid Dynamics of(strictly hypothetical) Human Sexual Intercourse in a Canoe Outdoor Code Golf(Winter Session) "E-Sports"
- DC1350 6y ago> Human Sexual Intercourse That’s not the Waterloo that I know
- jebeng 6y agoThus the 'strictly hypothetical' part after the club got too many complaints for getting peoples hopes up.
- makeset 6y ago> The Computational Fluid Dynamics of(strictly hypothetical) Human Sexual Intercourse in a Canoe SimBudweiser?
- jmgrosen 6y agoNot sure whether I'd prefer to be Bond, or a pirate: archery, fencing, pistol, and sailing.
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- reaperducer 6y agoBond. Simply for the hygiene.
- aksss 6y agoI think Bond is good with a sailing yacht, pistol, and fencing. Just missing the archery unless some Bond nerd wants to point to some Bond archery (and I'd believe it).
- kbenson 6y agoCompletely ignores political science, economics and physics? Checks out. ;)
- antonvs 6y agoJames Bond can't afford to worry about physics when he's skiing off the edge of a mountain onto the top of a plane.
- cobookman 6y agoWouldn't that require an understanding of physics to properly make his landing :D
- frenchy 6y agoUnderstanding physics wouldn't cut it, what you really need is a generous dose of plot armor.
- jnsie 6y agoAbsolutely not! If he understood physics he would understand that the landing is impossible, and would therefore die in the attempt. That he doesn't know the landing is impossible is what makes it possible, and he lives. Simple.
- a_t48 6y agoAhh, the Hitchiker's Guide method.
- samatman 6y ago"Is a Mongolian horse archer applying physics even though he has no idea what physics is and it hasn't even been invented yet" is a pretty deep philosophical rabbit hole.
- aksss 6y agoIn the same way that one can appreciate good wine without having memorized the names of all the world's grape varieties.
- tablespoon 6y ago> You can definitely do the James Bond semester at college if you're so inclined, which iirc is: wine tasting, handgun safety, cross country skiing, swedish massage, and ballroom dancing. Pretty sure James Bond's handgun use is more on the unsafe side of things. I mean, he does have a license to kill and uses it frequently.
- aksss 6y agonit: "deadly" is not "unsafe". You can be perfectly safe in your firearm handling and still wield the power to kill other beings. "Unsafe" presents the risk of being unintentionally deadly, but being intentionally deadly is perfectly compatible with being safe in the gun's handling.
- WalterBright 6y agoYou're not going to learn ballroom dancing in a semester. By learning it I mean being proficient with it that you're smooth and comfortable with it, and can make your partner look good.
- usehackernews 6y agoThe point of the James Bond semester is more so about the lack of learning
- nerdponx 6y agoWaste of school tuition perhaps, but certainly not time wasted learning any of those skills.
- edmundsauto 6y agoAre you really learning the skill, or are you sampling it? One semester is maybe 40 hours of instruction. Even twice that in practice puts you at 120 hours. I hardly think that is enough time to become a good skier, etc.
- nerdponx 6y ago40 hours of skiing is 10 4-hour sessions. For a young adult in decent physical shape and with good instruction, that's enough time to establish a base of technique and confidence. That's pretty much all you get in most undergrad courses anyway. It's usually an intro to, or first taste of, a sophisticated subject that would take a long time to master. It's only after many such intros (i.e. many hundreds of hours of study) that the student will begin to develop a more sophisticated understading of their chosen field. In that light, is a 1-credit skiing course any different from a 1-credit astronomy course?
- saagarjha 6y agoI’m a decent casual skier and I’ve probably skied about that much in total.