Tag Archive: fall 2008

The Welcome Party

By Richard X. Thripp at 2008-09-04T09:48:27Z in General, with these tags: dsc, events, fall 2008, parties, phi theta kappa, photos, welcome, 2 Comments. 326 words.

Hi everyone! I’ve been busy on my personal development blog, the Tweet This plugin for WordPress I made, and my Daytona State College classes. But I want to share these photos from the DSC welcome party last week (August 27).

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People at the party, enjoying the cool Florida weather. :cool:


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Dr. Michael Flota (left) and Steve Pruitt (right), of Phi Theta Kappa. Pruitt is the student president of the Daytona State’s Mu Rho chapter, and Flota is on the board of directors. Dr. Flota teaches sociology (fall) and economics (spring) at QUANTA.


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Professor Frank Gunshanan says hello. He teaches English in QUANTA, and does a bang-up job of it.


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Random people!


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I forget this fellow’s name. He’s preparing the Phi Theta Kappa dunk tank.


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The army recruiters are active on campus. I told them I couldn’t join because of my overwhelming cowardice. :grin:


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A near hit! The dunk tank was a fund-raising event: each person donated $1 while throwing three balls at the button.


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Who is this person? If only I knew.


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Dr. Casey Blanton, Chair of Learning Communities and Humanities professor at QUANTA, and another gentleman whose name I can’t remember Bruce Cook, Assistant Dean of Student Activities department and co-adviser of the school newspaper, DSC In Motion (thanks Jennifer! 2008-11-17).


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People other than me taking pictures! I always take pictures of people taking pictures.


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More of Flota!


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At last, Dr. …

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Opening Day, Fall 2008

By Richard X. Thripp at 2008-08-26T12:27:01Z in General, with these tags: biology, calculus, classes, dsc, fall 2008, photography, photos, physics, speech, 0 Comments. 808 words.

Yesterday, 2008 August 25, was the first day back to class for thousands of Daytona State College students. I was amazed by how busy the campus was, but it was likely because I only saw it between class periods when all the students and faculty were shuffling about.

Welcome back, Daytona State College students!

A sign in the courtyard out front of the theater (building 220), welcoming the students.

New parking lot

The college’s new and improved parking lot. All this land used to be just grass, unused, and the parking situation was horrendous. Over the summer workmen replaced it with hundreds of spaces.

The science building

Building 410, for science. This was my first visit to the building, way at the back of the campus, for Physics I and Biology. Very nice; I like all the glass panels.

My first day was a lot of fun. I think I like Physics the most, though it’s probably the hardest. My speech teacher, Dr. Kenneth Walker, is a very good speaker. No umms or uhhs or kindas or likes in anything he says, always quick and to the point.

The biology class is really big, and I was impressed by Dr. James Backer’s work and resources on the website. The first day of class, we had a test, though it was just for statistical collection (how much we know about biology before biology class). That was interesting.

For calculus, we started off reviewing algebra / trigonometry / pre-calculus. Since I don’t use any of it in my daily life, I’ve already forgotten most of the concepts, so I’m working on re-learning them for the duration of the course (and Calculus II and beyond).

I got the wrong book for Calculus (MAC2311). The right one is James Stewart’s Single-Variable Caclulus, Early Transcendentals Version, …

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