Tarkblog

If there was one thing I loved about my undergraduate education, it was the size of the school. My personality type fit in much better at a small engineering school than it ever would have at a large public institution. Not to say that those places are bad, but I’m certainly glad I went to a place with a small, close-knit campus.

However, it bothers me to see that the school is “getting larger”. I read this year that RHIT’s freshman class is at 525, a record over last year’s 490. I believe my freshman year, which was almost 10 years ago, we had a class of right around 400. Since the classes tended to get smaller in size throughout the four years, there were like 1350 students that year. Now they’re getting dreafully close to the 2000 number. That’s a very big increase for small facility.

I don’t like it, and I’m not certain yet if it’s a good thing for the school. Granted, I’m not there on a day-to-day basis, and perhaps they are merely keeping up with high demand for people wanting to go there. But, there certainly was a large percentage of people in my freshman class that never should have stepped foot on that campus (as evidenced by the fact that many of them didn’t make it more than 1.5 years — someone could have saved them that money by not admitting them in the first place. )

Simply, I’m curious when the growth is going to stop. What’s the optimal size for RHIT? 1350 sure felt like a good size to me. 2000 seems highly maximal. And I’m not looking forward to hearing about 2500, or 3000. Someday the growth will have to stop, or RHIT won’t be the same RHIT that I went there for and enjoyed so much. I hope they know what they’re doing.

So on the way home, I stop at the beer store to replenish my supplies.

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As I previously wrote, I check out a message board that is related to Disneyworld fairly frequently. And I started some controversy on there a while back, it seems.

Well, that’s all done and over with now.

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I received my annual OSHA safety training today (last training was circa 2001).

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So I went to the local community college today because I am again teaching a class this fall. I needed to get one of the textbooks and have the department head show me where the classroom is and how to get into it (they’ve built a new facility since I last taught a class there).

Anyway, when I walk in I notice some paper towels in the middle of the floor. A few minutes later, I’m walking back where I came from and I see a disgruntled man cleaning up what appears to be vomit stains.

As I continue walking I get stuck behind a young lady carrying a baby and holding the hand of a little girl. They pretty much took up the whole width of the hallway and were walking slow, so I came right up behind them and tried to maneuver around. That’s when I heard the girl say:

“Mommy, I got puke on me”

I thought that was kind of amusing.

Then the mom replies: “Yeah, Devon must have the same flu bug you had last week”

Then I quickly realize I’m standing right behind this little “Devon” and he’s on her shoulder looking back at me (and breathing in my general direction).

Man, I hope I don’t get the flu now.