Posted by jkm822 at michigan.mgmt.rpi.edu on May 29, 2003 at 16:10:06:
In Reply to: Could be. posted by Lithmick on May 29, 2003 at 16:04:18:
: I was an SUNY Albany girl myself though...but my prof that taught the sci-fi class was great...people would just show up hoping to get into the class and it was always filled to the max.
Which is just plain funny, 'cause I live in Albany, now (well, Troy, but close enough). I work at RPI. If you could call it work. But only for 3 more months!!! I'm going back to NJ, baby! Get me out of this faux-city, and back to the fucking tri-state!!!
: We actually, instead of taking tests or papers had to write our own short stories, sci fi of course..and the end of the term project was creating our own sci fi magazine..complete with articles, illustrations, etc. She graded them so that the best one got an A, the next best an A- and so on and so forth...it was fun, actually..doing a group project like that. but damn, competitive..people were creating CD's for their mags...
That's impressive! I don't even remember what the testing process was in sci-fi. I know that in horror and vampire lit, we had to do a presentation on a horror movie/vampire movie. I was too chickenshit to do it during horror lit, and took a 5 point loss in the class, but for vamp lit I did Fright Night. Someone did Vampire Princess Miyu, that was pretty cool, and another one did The Hunger, which, I'm sorry, but I just plain hated. In horror lit, someone did Evil Dead, it was my first exposure to it. Actually, I got to see some movies I've really grown to love.
Another interesting class I took was Introduction to Writing: Horror. It wasn't writing horror, it was writing analyses of horror films and stuff. I saw Jacob's Ladder in that class. I was the only person in the class that got an A on the paper, that rocked. We also saw Night of the Living Dead, and outright MST3K'd it. The prof was shocked, and said he'd never had a class react to it QUITE that way before.