<p>aite, so i just finished that AlcoholEdu thing that we have to do. kinda interesting. i thought i would have aced the exam at the end, but i only got a 80%. albeit, i still passed it, but i thought i did better. make sure you pay attention to the specific facts that are thrown at you if you wanna pass it! such as, what exactly a "standard drink" is (which is like a 1.5 oz mixed liquor with 40% alcohol or 80 proof, or something like that). maybe i rushed through the thing, which was still about 3 hours. you have to listen to audio and videos, and you can only continue on once you finish watching and listening to them. kinda frustrating. </p>
<p>We have to take this course too! It is quite interesting although it's probably more than the two hours they say in the introduction. The audio makes it seem a lot longer, but it's not so bad. I thought the standard drink was 12 ounces of 14%...? Magic - was your final test similar to the first one they make you take before you start the course.</p>
<p>This alcohol edu thing drives me insane! I'm from Italy, and here alcohol is part of the culture.. We are give wine at the dinner table mixed with water, as five year olds! It seems so stupid to have to go through all this.. and it's so boring!</p>
<p>does anyone have USC'sl password for alchohol edu, I lost the paper that they originally sent to us. if someone could please pm it to me, i'd appreciate it.</p>
<p>believe the Log In/Password is Individual Use Only…like if you were to use someone’s else, then it would show they did it instead of under your USC ID #:…i’d check to make sure you will get credit for it by getting your info</p>
<p>strawberrymonkey</p>
<p>i agree about the length, the Audio portions should be shorter but overall it shouldn’t take more than a few hours, i recommend taking notes as well</p>
<p>thought i knew more about Alcohol but you’d be surprised</p>
<p>I did it a couple weeks ago and was surprised at how much I knew about alcohol. I don't drink, so that was quite a surprise, I got a 90% on the pre-test and a 95% on the final.</p>
<p>the point of the course is that when you youngins all get wasted off your asses, as the university knows you will all through your first semester, and then one (or several) of you get yourself alcohol poisoning, the Univesity gets to say "not our fault-we made them take alcohol training!"</p>
<p>Trust me, at least one person you know freshman year will get alcohol poisoning and have to get taken to the hospital. It happens to about a dozen kids every year that you hear about, I bet it happens to a lot more who you don't hear about. Alcohol is a BIG part of the social scene at USC.</p>
<p>The word alcoholic takes on a new meaning when you realize 70 year old alumni at gameday could drink you under the table.....ah, I love the Trojan family ;-)</p>
<p>i dunno i think a lot of the stuff they teach you is useless. i don't need to know specific statistics, does it matter if 85% of the teens drink and i picked 80%?!?!?! (eg.) it should be like, round about...
or like...12 ounces is actually a drink and 14 ounces is blah blah
first of all i'm not even familiar with ounces, i use ml!!!
so yeh.
but i mean, i've been drinking regularly, and i've gone thru the stages of blacking out numerous times before, and i've managed to learn to control that these days, i know how to deal with my body, hangover, i know how to take care of someone when they're drunk...so i dunno, i think some of the stuff in alcoholedu is kinda useless, but im sure some are useful, but i've only done the first chapter...i ended up chatting whilst listening, and none of it went into my head. lol</p>
<p>but trojangirl is right...they just want the respondsibility off them. hah! oh well, still, make it a little shorter. i hate learning statistics and specifics. just teach safe drinking and the basic harmful effects -_-""" and contradict any myths should be enough.</p>