University 101 - Risks and Technology

An index page for various class resources

last modified 01/15/2005

Syllabus

Schedule

Readings

• Cuckoo's Egg, Epilogue and After the ?, due Dec. 14 (at the final)
• Cuckoo's Egg, Chapters 53-56, due Dec. 9
• Cuckoo's Egg, Chapters 51-52, due Dec. 2
• Cuckoo's Egg, Chapters 37-50, due Nov. 30
• Cuckoo's Egg, Chapters 35-36, due Nov. 18
• Cuckoo's Egg, Chapters 31-34, due Nov. 16
• Cuckoo's Egg, Chapters 29-30, due Nov. 11
• Cuckoo's Egg, Chapters 25-28, due Nov. 9
• Cuckoo's Egg, Chapters 23-24, due Nov. 4
• Cuckoo's Egg, Chapters 19-22, due Nov. 2
• Cuckoo's Egg, Chapters 17-18, due Oct. 21
• Cuckoo's Egg, Chapters 13-16, due Oct. 19
• Cuckoo's Egg, Chapters 1-12, due Oct. 14

Homework

• "If you took all of the hamburgers McDonalds has ever sold and spread them out on the ground (as a carpet), how much area would they cover?  Your dorm room?  A football field?  Campus?  The town of Olean? The county?  The state?  The continental U.S?  North America?  The world?  How deep on the world?"  Write up a short answer detailing your assumptions and how you used them to reach your conclusions.  Helpful estimating data.  Whereas McDonalds now claims "Billions and billions served" on their signs, they used to keep a counter that periodically went up.  Alas, the counter had only two digits.  Some time in the 1980's, it switched to saying "Over 99 billion served" before assuming its current form. Once you have answered that, use some of your 'partial estimates' to indicate how high the stack would be if you piled all of the hamburgers on top of one another.  (Don't worry about the pile tipping over.)   Finally, indicate how big the volume would be, i.e. if you put them all in a large container, how big would it be?  In each of the latter cases, relate the size to a known quantity - as done in earlier assignments.  Due Nov. 16.
• How long would it take you to fill the hard disk on your computer by typing words?  Determine an estimate and indicate how you arrived at it.
• If you took all of the toothpaste that a typical person (you?) would use in a lifetime and squeezed it out into one single, long, strand, how long would that strand be?  Determine your answer through the ideas of estimation discussed in class, and turn in a brief write-up including your assumptions, the value that you determine, and an explanation of how you determined that value.  Due Nov. 9
• Schedule in Word, due Nov. 9
• E-Voting paper, due Dec. 2
• Cornell Note taking assignment, due at the end of classes
• Email a question (or more than one!) about Franciscanism - either historical or how it plays out on our campus - to dlevine@cs.sbu.edu by Monday 9/27 at noon.
• Visit the Career Center web page.  Follow the link for Type Focus and take the personality assessment.  At the conclusion of that assessment, you will be given a four-letter code describing your personality type.  Send an email message with that code to dlevine@cs.sbu.edu.  The message must be received by 8:30 a.m. on 9/23.
• 3 Questions assignment, due at the end of classes
• Clare College worksheet, due 9/14
• Headlines worksheet, due 9/7
• Send email from your preferred address to dlevine by Thursday, August 26.  Include a joke.
• Weigh yourself and record that value somewhere private.  In addition to Health Services, there is a scale available in Doyle 118.

Other stuff

• Link to e-voting stuff is here.    
• Results of the self-reported skills inventory are here.

Journal Topics

•     Week 16 (12/7) - "Next semester, I will..."
•     Week 15 (11/30) - "As I prepare for the end of the semester, ..."
•     <non> Week 14 (11/23) - It's break; no journals due
•     Week 13 (11/16) - "Over Thanksgiving break..."
•     Week 12 (11/9) - "For the rest of the semester, ..."
•     Week 11 (11/2) - "The election..."
•     Week 10 (10/25) - free choice for both
•     Week 9 (10/18) - free choice for both
•     Week 8 (10/11) - <Only one entry due; on topic of your choice>
•     Week 7 (10/4) - "To me, Franciscanism..."
•     Week 6 (9/27) - "Based upon my personality type..."
•     Week 5 (9/20) - "If I could redo one thing about the way Bonaventure started for me..."
•     Week 4 (9/13) - "My courses..."
•     Week 3 (9/6) - "From the experience at the FLRC, I learned..."
•     Week 2 (8/30) - "My biggest surprise at college so far is..."
•     Week 1 (8/23)- "My biggest challenge in college will be..."