Comments on: Boss-across-the-hall update: comprise versus compose

by: Becky

Fri, 01 Oct 2004 20:35:13 +0000

Dave, I wouldn’t say I was royally screwed. However, the way the MSIS credits work is a big scam:
- MSIS requires more credit hours to complete than most graduate programs
- Not to worry! The classes are 4 credits instead of 3, so you’re not actually taking more classes than the average graduate program
- But….we will charge you by the credit hour

It was really my former employer who got the brunt of the Drexel shaft.

Theresa: I see that the defense department is testing a blimp in DC today–is that the one you saw? In the article the blimp is flying.

by: Theresa

Fri, 01 Oct 2004 19:53:39 +0000

We have a blimp, uh, blimping? around DC right now. Do they fly? Float? What?

Anyway, they just alerted us so we wouldn’t think it was a UFO. Because they like to keep us informed.

by: Dave

Fri, 01 Oct 2004 19:17:47 +0000

No, it’s actually a good thing you haven’t heard about it. If you had, it would probably mean you were royally screwed by Drexel.

by: Becky

Fri, 01 Oct 2004 18:51:33 +0000

Oh, wait…boss-across-the-hall was in the program full time. So I stand by my original excuse.

by: Becky

Fri, 01 Oct 2004 18:47:21 +0000

I was going to plead ignorance due to attending Drexel as a part-time grad student. The experience consisted of visiting the Rush building once a week for 3 years–hardly a way to become immersed in all things Drexel.

But then I asked boss-across-the-hall, who went through the same program, and he knew all about the shaft, the website, and the game.

So it really is extremely surprising that I didn’t know about the shaft.

by: Dave

Fri, 01 Oct 2004 06:14:51 +0000

I'm extremely surprised that you've never heard much about the Shaft. The Princeton Review even talks about it in their Drexel writeup. It's quite amusing. Well -- according to Wikipedia: When people think they are getting a bad deal from the University, they often refer to it as getting the "Drexel Shaft". The Drexel Shaft is also a structure on campus, and according to university legend the structure grows one more inch every time a student is shafted. For a wonderful Shaft animation (clean) created by Newgrounds' Tom Fulp, see drexelshaft.com. Go Dragons.

by: Becky

Fri, 01 Oct 2004 05:40:34 +0000

Not Photoshopped, eh? Yeah, and a bear grabbed my ass. Could you please elaborate on the Drexel shaft? I attended that fine institution but never heard much talk about the shaft.

by: Dave

Fri, 01 Oct 2004 03:23:24 +0000

This picture appears in the back of my mind whenever someone mentions zeppelins. (Yeah, it happens a lot.) It’s not Photoshopped — I scanned it out of some book. Really.

Note: it looks like the blimp is soaring above the Drexel Shaft.

by: Becky

Thu, 30 Sep 2004 22:30:10 +0000

He’s been a little loopy lately. He was singing “Strangers in the Night” while putting the final touches on the presentation.

by: Sam

Thu, 30 Sep 2004 21:28:11 +0000

“Well, I like the way comprises sounds. I’ll keep it.”

Boss-across-the-hall sounds like he is a bit across the hall.