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Re:Young female Japanese biker is 50-year-old man using FaceApp by CoolGuySteve on Friday March 19, 2021 @02:34PM (#26516843)
What college are you people going to? I never saw any of these, not even as clubs, at Waterloo.
Re:Young female Japanese biker is 50-year-old man using FaceApp by Alex3917 on Friday March 19, 2021 @02:42PM (#26516933)
Cornell. The specific classes are:

Introduction to Wines: https://sha.cornell.edu/admissions-programs/undergraduate/ac...

Introduction to Handgun Safety: https://courses.cornell.edu/preview_course_nopop.php?catoid=...

Cross Country Skiing: https://scl.cornell.edu/coe/pe-courses/spring-pe-courses/sno...

Swedish Massage: https://courses.cornell.edu/preview_course_nopop.php?catoid=...

Ballroom Dance: https://classes.cornell.edu/browse/roster/SP20/class/PE/1153

Of course the advantage of going to Waterloo is that you can probably pass the Google coding interviews.

Re:Young female Japanese biker is 50-year-old man using FaceApp by stilley2 on Friday March 19, 2021 @06:03PM (#26518592)
"I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study." -Ezra Cornell.

I'm not sure if they're offered anymore, but they used to have Basic Rifle Marksmanship and Epee de Guerre. My friend once told me he thought my major was "weapons".

Re:Young female Japanese biker is 50-year-old man using FaceApp by phillc73 on Friday March 19, 2021 @03:08PM (#26517183)
I clearly wasted my time with English Lit, Modern European History, Linguistics and German in my first year at University!
Re:Young female Japanese biker is 50-year-old man using FaceApp by reaperducer on Friday March 19, 2021 @04:17PM (#26517766)
Don't feel bad. I wasted my time with Soviet Studies. Oops.
Re:Young female Japanese biker is 50-year-old man using FaceApp by jascii on Friday March 19, 2021 @05:06PM (#26518142)
Something tells me that that is still pretty relevant...
Re:Young female Japanese biker is 50-year-old man using FaceApp by t0mas88 on Friday March 19, 2021 @06:00PM (#26518558)
I thought you were joking, but handgun safety really is a college class... Just wow.
Re:Young female Japanese biker is 50-year-old man using FaceApp by Alex3917 on Friday March 19, 2021 @06:11PM (#26518653)
It makes sense, given there are academic fields where a gun might be needed. E.g. if your research involves inventorying songbirds in the jungles of Colombia or whatever. Even in the U.S. a lot of mycologists carry weapons, so if they get shot at while accidentally stumbling on an illegal weed grow or whatever they can shoot back.
Re:Young female Japanese biker is 50-year-old man using FaceApp by unishark on Friday March 19, 2021 @06:38PM (#26518856)
The description looks like it's about competition, not just safety, akin to a class on poker. Perhaps the title is a bit of spin for defensive reasons.
Re:Young female Japanese biker is 50-year-old man using FaceApp by porknubbins on Friday March 19, 2021 @08:04PM (#26519406)
Thats what I was thinking, safety is critical, but an easy 2 day class. There are so many more interesting angles for engineering students to approach handguns whether self defense (more Bondish) or marksmanship, engineering principles etc.
Re:Young female Japanese biker is 50-year-old man using FaceApp by a0-prw on Saturday March 20, 2021 @12:25AM (#26520801)
Laughed at that, cheers bro :)
Re:Young female Japanese biker is 50-year-old man using FaceApp by realityking on Friday March 19, 2021 @06:37PM (#26518845)
Svalbad University has an, AFAIK mandatory, course that includes learning hot to shoot a rifle: https://www.unis.no/course/as-101-arctic-survival-and-safety...

In most of Svalbad you need to carry a rifle to defend yourself against polar bears.

Re:Young female Japanese biker is 50-year-old man using FaceApp by Aeolun on Friday March 19, 2021 @07:12PM (#26519113)
> The course is intended for students with little or no prior experience of life in the high Arctic.

I’d say that there’s not many of them if they go to school there.

Re:Young female Japanese biker is 50-year-old man using FaceApp by adrusi on Friday March 19, 2021 @08:46PM (#26519720)
A decent chunk of the svalbard population is researchers who moved there for the sake of their research.
Re:Young female Japanese biker is 50-year-old man using FaceApp by xarope on Friday March 19, 2021 @08:59PM (#26519792)
I thought it was mandatory for anybody leaving town to either carry rifle, a sacrificial husky (!), or a guide who had both?
Re:Young female Japanese biker is 50-year-old man using FaceApp by 908B64B197 on Friday March 19, 2021 @05:18PM (#26518235)
I mean, Cornell is an Ivy, not a regional school.
Re:Young female Japanese biker is 50-year-old man using FaceApp by jebeng on Friday March 19, 2021 @06:23PM (#26518735)
> at Waterloo.

That's your problem, but at you had:

Underwater Linux .iso Distributing

The Computational Fluid Dynamics of(strictly hypothetical) Human Sexual Intercourse in a Canoe

Outdoor Code Golf(Winter Session)

"E-Sports"

Re:Young female Japanese biker is 50-year-old man using FaceApp by DC1350 on Friday March 19, 2021 @06:37PM (#26518844)
> Human Sexual Intercourse

That’s not the Waterloo that I know

Re:Young female Japanese biker is 50-year-old man using FaceApp by jebeng on Friday March 19, 2021 @08:05PM (#26519413)
Thus the 'strictly hypothetical' part after the club got too many complaints for getting peoples hopes up.
Re:Young female Japanese biker is 50-year-old man using FaceApp by makeset on Thursday March 25, 2021 @02:40PM (#26583796)
> The Computational Fluid Dynamics of(strictly hypothetical) Human Sexual Intercourse in a Canoe

SimBudweiser?

Re:Young female Japanese biker is 50-year-old man using FaceApp by _whiteCaps_ on Friday March 19, 2021 @04:44PM (#26517991)
I took Introduction to Wine Science as my 'non engineering' course. Lab component was tasting - but you had to spit it out.

It was one of the hardest courses I took at university - so much memorization of various wine regions around the world, grape varietals, etc.