Two Required College Classes Meet at the Same Time! What Would You Do?

Ingenuity

My solution changed my entire approach to life. What I learned applies to every situation, even today.

It was my last quarter. I had a job waiting, no more money and no more time. I had to complete the last class in a 3-class series to graduate and that class was not offered. Finally, I was on academic probation for low grades for the prior quarter.

This was before home computers, laptops and cell phones. People sat in class and hand-wrote their notes as the professor lectured. Primitive by today’s standards.

First, the Electrical Engineering class that I needed was not available that quarter. The school agreed to let me substitute another EE class, so I chose Machines, Languages and Algorithms, which met at the same time as the required math class, Non-Euclidian Geometries, taught by my advisor.

On top of all that, I announced that I was going to make the Dean’s List. It was my last chance to do so. For some reason, everybody laughed. Well, my academic advisor was polite and just smiled. Those reactions added to the challenge.

The professors agreed that I would attend the math class, since that was my major, except when the EE class had a test. I would meet with the EE professor twice a week to pick up class notes and turn in assignments.

All test questions for the EE class came straight out of the textbook.

I knew I had to do something really different. So, using the textbook, I wrote a set of overheads as if I was going to teach the class.

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