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Originally Posted by JAFF (Post 254557)

He can get EdM, it is about attention to detail, knowing Ed history AND Ed law. Its not physics

Ok. Thanks for the info I think. It still doesn't change anything about my point that if the guy is having trouble w/ work/life balance 2 weeks into getting his teaching degree then he's probably not going to be able to handle the work/life balance situation when putting his degree to use out in the real world.

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Originally Posted by IndyNorm (Post 254601)

This is not that big of a deal. It could be any number of things. I had classes cancelled after the first day because they didnt get enough people to sign up. Professors left for another institution. You have no real information that he cant handle his life.

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Originally Posted by JAFF (Post 254618)

Directly from the article (look at the bold part):

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THE EXISTENTIAL STRESS is real stress a few weeks later at Stanford, as Luck exits his philosophy of education class, exhausted and overwhelmed. It's the second week of school. We enter a café. He stands in front of a coffee machine, and I ask him about his day.
"It's really, uh -- you want anything?"
He fixes himself an espresso, his second of the morning. He looks like a college student -- flannel shirt, backpack, beat-up Stanford hat, which happens to be from his undergrad days -- and is fretting like one, worried about the course load, all of which is more complicated with a young family. He already dropped a class after feeling too close to the line of "losing touch" with Nicole and the kids, a boundary that after Holland he promised himself and the family he'd never cross, a reminder that his quarterback self, the guy who could so easily and ruthlessly exclude everything in life except the task at hand, is still in there. The photo on his Stanford ID is still the one he took at age 18, during his first days on campus. Little about the experience is familiar, except when he drops by the football offices. As a freshman and now, Luck came to campus wanting to be something. Back then, the choice was clear -- and felt less like a choice than it does now.

o

Yesterday's collapse against the Vikings was not a silent Hell, it was a very loud Hell.

o

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Originally Posted by IndyNorm (Post 254620)

Directly from the article (look at the bold part):

He dropped one class. Didnt stop going to any class. Did he wait until he was miserable? He did stop all classess and move to Idaho? I added a BS and later an MA to my resume, while holding a job. It took me a little longer because I dropped a class one week in because I thought the prof was fucking nuts. Turned out, everyone else bailed on the class.

Think of it this way. He decided that that class wasnt what he wanted, and instead of sticking it out and being miserable, he walked away. He made the decision for himself, not for anyone else.

I didnt find my career until I was 30. What I didnt try? And when I found something that I enjoyed, I had 35 years where I never dreaded going to work. He dropped something after deciding it wasnt worth his time. Wasnt that his problem? He was miserable, and didnt want to be a quitter.

Its one class. Get a grip.

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Originally Posted by JAFF (Post 254639)

I have no idea why you're getting so butt hurt about this. I'm not insulting Luck or anyone else.

The guy wasn't able to maintain the work/life balance he wanted when playing in the NFL, which was a primary driver in him retiring from the game. Then right out of the gate he's dropping a class b/c (as clearly stated in the article) it was cutting too much into his home life. Not b/c the professor was crazy, etc. like you seem to think it is. I never said he was flipping out or screwed, but predicting that he's going to struggle maintaining the work/life balance he wants and his family seems to expect for him is very much objective and reasonable based on the details in the article.

I have SO much I'd like to say about this fucking guy #12, the owner, and the organization as a whole...but I won't. A certain amount of decorum is needed now. It's sooo hard not to vent it out, but I won't.

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Originally Posted by IndyNorm (Post 254672)

Im not butt hurt. Why are you saying the sky is falling?