<p>i know the simpsons did this a while ago, but i was just wondering if anyone had some steretypes to be taken in good fun with perhaps a grain of truth to them. bryn mawr v wellesley v smith perhaps?</p>
<p>A professor walks into the classroom at 9am and says "Good morning, class."</p>
<p>At Wellesley, all the students furiously scribble "Good morning, class" into their notebooks.</p>
<p>At Barnard, the classroom is empty because none of the students are up yet.</p>
<p>At Mount Holyoke, the students wait expectantly.</p>
<p>At Smith, one student says, "What do you mean by 'good'? How do you know my values align with yours?" A second student says, "Aren't you being Western Hemisphere-centric?" A third says, "Aren't we supposed to get away from class-ist language?"</p>
<p>Bryn Mawr...I dunno. But thanks, BMC is the Seventh Sister I couldn't remember earlier, not Pembroke. I had <em>thought</em> there were five still left as Sisters.</p>
<p>:) The Smith one is so true, so, so true.</p>
<p>S&P, are you a senior? Any current Smith seniors lurking?</p>
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A professor walks into the classroom at 9am and says "Good morning, class." ...
Bryn Mawr...I dunno.
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At Bryn Mawr, the students look puzzled, and one says "Excuse me, professor, but I don't think this issue was addressed in the assigned reading" and another says "I know it wasn't covered, because I read all six chapters carefully three times", and a third says "it's not in next week's assignment either"</p>
<p>Good one, Corbett.</p>
<p>haha, i'd love to hear more like that</p>
<p>TD- Nope, I'm a sophomore. I don't know of any seniors that are still hanging around this place.</p>
<p>Ah. Well Stacy pops in now and then but she's in Law School.</p>
<p>I'd like to test my theory, for I could be all wet.</p>
<p>I have to admit, TD's description of Smithies in his joke sounds like my TOK class when we all get really heated in discussion. EXACTLY like my TOK class. Ahh, the good memories. I miss TOK.</p>
<p>^ Very true. (I'm finishing up the IB Diploma right now.) :)</p>
<p>"like my TOK class when we all get really heated in discussion."</p>
<p>Many TOK teachers use the culture of Nacirema for discussions and then have the students write an essay. Did your class?
<a href="http://www.msu.edu/%7Ejdowell/miner.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.msu.edu/~jdowell/miner.html</a></p>
<p>There's a lesson here ;)</p>
<p>Actually my TOK teacher brought it up at one point but he didn't really go into it -- he wouldn't. I think he wanted us to go research it in our spare time if we wanted but not to spoil the surprise of who the Nacirema were but our class never really got into it. (Side note: TOK teacher is an anthropology major.) He also brought up Todorov and "The Conquest of America." One really funny thing he did was when we were reading some random guy's manifesto and we were all "TOK-ing" the situation and thinking that the guy was really smart and had some interesting ideas...and then we found out that we were reading the Unabomber Manifesto. And then we started discussing ethics implications, etc. Lots of talking, little writing.</p>
<p>My TOK teacher didn't really give out essays. Usually readings (~20-100 pages a night). Apparently IB really liked his curriculum because the students managed to score high on TOK tests. 90% of the time, all we did was talk about the readings and "TOK them" (it's become a standard phrase). I think, in the entire year, I've written, maybe...3-4 essays in the entire year whereas my friend's TOK teacher sits and lectures and assigns an essay a night.</p>
<p>I've had three or four essays assigned in two years of TOK, and we've never been assigned any outside reading. I go to an all-IB private school that's supposed to be rigorous... but TOK is basically seen as a joke class. :eek:</p>
<p>It's a shame, really, because it has the potential to be really interesting, but usually it just turns into people arguing with each other and trying to look as if they know what they're talking about even when they don't. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>Ouch, I'm sorry. Some people think that TOK is a debate class -- some of my friends from other schools, and my teacher said that he'd heard of that sort of thing too. But TOK is definitely one of my favorite classes (at my school, English is the joke class -- and our math program royally SUCKS). It's the class that usually 99% of kids love and can use in the adult world. I go to a public high school with 25%-ish kids in IB (partial or full), though.</p>
<p>Keep in mind, I want to major in English, but I know a lousy class when I see one. I'm not big on IB English in general.</p>
<p>If you don't mind me asking - what is TOK?</p>
<p>Theory of Knowledge -- it's a required class for the IB Diploma.</p>
<p>"Actually my TOK teacher brought it up at one point but he didn't really go into it -- he wouldn't. I think he wanted us to go research it in our spare time if we wanted but not to spoil the surprise of who the Nacirema were but our class never really got into it."</p>
<p>Please do me a favor: Read the article and let me know what you think of the culture--you too camel :)</p>
<p><a href="http://www.msu.edu/%7Ejdowell/miner.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.msu.edu/~jdowell/miner.html</a></p>
<p>Studies of the Nacirema have been around for a long time. I remember a presentation from either 8th or 9th grade.</p>
<p>Studies of the Nacirema have been around for a long time"</p>
<p>Since 1956. The date is at the top of the article ;)</p>