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Help me think of an innovative class/project lasting a month

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SirFryanator
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for my supplementary essay I need to write about a month-long class or project that I would develop. This has to be actually feasible since I would most likely be carrying it out in university. Can you guys help brainstorm some projects for me that might have to do with skiing?
Dec 17 2008 9:42PM 0 0
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steevner
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I think you need to be a little more specific about this. Like what subject this is?
Study the effect of skiing on stress levels
Dec 17 2008 10:06PM 0 0
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[MEGAMO]
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what is your major? if you were in a psyc class, you could do personality tests comparing park rats and nastar goons. you would have to have a large sample size from each though
Dec 17 2008 10:08PM 0 0
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Peter.
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you could do something with like calories burned through skiing, like park riders vs. normal riders vs. powder riders

that would work well if you were gonna be a pre-med major or something
Dec 17 2008 10:10PM 0 0
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SirFryanator
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I'm not in college yet. Middlebury has a 4-1-4 program where I have 1 month to do whatever I want pretty much as a class or a project. This is a supplementary application for applying and the prompt is to develop this course/project and describe what I hope to gain from this experience...

I'm not really sure what I would want to do.
Dec 18 2008 12:45AM 0 0
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Static
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ibsuperhighme
Dec 18 2008 2:36AM 0 0
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SirFryanator
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bump
Dec 18 2008 11:11PM 0 0
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Malcolm
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make the most ballin ass drop in ever. and then send it to me i kinda need one
Dec 18 2008 11:19PM 0 0
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shagalabagala
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research the interface between prison inmates and guards, like go to some prisons and just be a fly on the wall...
 a government class at my highschool just took a fieldtrip to a maximum security prison with rapists, murders, child molesters etc there, and apparently the guards were huge assholes.  to everybody, the inmates and the students visiting.  That shit is so interesting to me.  Prison's gotta be so fucking crazy.
Dec 18 2008 11:54PM 0 0
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SirFryanator
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I've done that before...but it could be interesting. Prison IS fucking crazy and I don't really want to go back and visit though unless it were minimum security.
Dec 19 2008 12:13AM 0 0
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spqr
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You could develop a month long park sking class. Teaching various ways of hitting boxes, rails, jumps, etc.

Or maybe produce a ski edit. Back in Highschool I had a semster long independant study where I just made a 15 minute movie.
Dec 19 2008 12:15AM 0 0
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shagalabagala
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was this a supplement for Colorado College by any chance?
Jan 17 2009 5:56PM 0 0
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SirFryanator
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it was actually for both CC and middlebury. I wrote it a while ago haha
Jan 17 2009 6:01PM 0 0
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