Penn State Will Offer Class on Joe Paterno

Posted by Street Ninja 04/09/2008 5:12 PM

Tags: Brown University, Joepa, easy classes

Penn State Will Offer Class on Joe Paterno

Alright. I'm Street Ninja, the new contributor for Penn State and I'm pretty excited to finally be able to put up my first post for OTR. As you can see there have been some changes, and I'm as overwhelmed with them as you so bear with them until all of the bugs are ironed out. So with out further ado, here we go.

When I first looked at Penn State's course book during my senior year of high school, I was stunned to find the amazing amount of classes that I could take. There was a class for anything my heart desired. Classes on Ancient Warfare,classes on Farm Records and Accounts,and classes on Mineral Processing. So it's no surprise to hear of a class on Joe Paterno, who is something of a mini god around here. He even has his own shrine, which we can see this girl…umm…venerating.

Now for all of you getting excited, it's not a class for his fans and lovers. It's a 400-level communications class that will focus on showing how Paterno's relationship with the media has changed over time. It will be required that you complete certain prereqs to take the class and you must be a junior or senior. But that's just their way of trying to make it sound important and official so people just don't call it an excuse for a class, which is exactly what it is. I mean seriously here, how hard can it possibly be?

Which brings me to my next subject: I absolutely hate when I hear people with "easier majors", which I will not name *cough* like film or advertising *cough **cough* whine about how much work they have. A 400-level class on Joe Paterno, you must be kidding me!! Some of you know what I'm talking about…u kids in the engineering and sciences. How many times have you had to stay in when your friends went out because you had to finish your chem exam before midnight or you have to spend a couple of hours trying to figure out your physics homework, only to give up and resort to cheating with the facebook support group.

All those cool sounding classes that you saw…No!…they're not for you. They're for the other kids. You don't get any electives. You get the reward of having all 4 years of classes picked out for you. What you wouldn't give to take a class where all you had to do was write a couple 10 page reports or just memorize what your teacher lectures about in class. So props to you kids toughing it out. Hang in there and don't give up because it will be worth it when you get that degree. And for the rest of u whiners, stop complaining about whatever work they give you because it's better than being stuck in classes like fluid mechanics or thermodynamics.

But if you do ever get a chance to take that classes like the one on Joe Paterno, I fully support taking something new and interesting and enjoying the opportunity to take a class that most other universities don't offer.

Until next time, ~Street Ninja
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