Breaking down the Ohio State Summer 2009 Course Catalog

by tominrehab on May 6, 2009 12:03 PM PDT Comment 41 comments

As part of a broader effort on the part of Bedgers to micromanage Greg Oden's summer plans, I've perused through the Ohio State course catalog and found some courses that he might want to take this summer. Below is a description, some of my thoughts and then a poll. If he can take only 1 class, which should he take?

DENTHYG 351 - 0010 Restorative Dentistry II

Theory and technical procedures in restoration with compound cavity preparations (amalgam alloy/filled resins) and procedures utilized by advanced qualified personnel in basic and advanced restorative dentistry.
Su Qtr. 3 cl, 6 lab hrs. Prereq: Successful completion of 250.

Breakdown: Greg has always wanted to be a dentist. In addition, I have a feeling that the Blazers will have many encounters with Birdman's nasty elbows next season. Restorative Dentistry may come in handy.

ATHTRNG 661 - 0011 Survey of Sports Medicine

Survey of sports medicine for non-professionals. Topics include the sports medicine team; risk management; and common athletic injuries, their causes, prevention, and immediate care.
Su, Au, Wi, Sp Qtrs. 2 2-hr cl, 1 1-hr lab. Not open to athletic training majors.

Breakdown: This course is right in Greg's wheelhouse... especially learning how to prevent and care for injuries. This will ensure that Rick Bucher will not be calling Oden an "injury-prone bust" 10 years from now.

CHEM 121 - 0010 General Chemistry

First course for science majors and engineering students, covering dimensional analysis, atomic structure, the mole, stoichiometry, chemical reactions, thermochemistry, electron configuration, periodicity, bonding, and molecular structure.
Su, Au, Wi, Sp Qtrs. 4 cl, 3 lab hrs. Prereq: One unit of high school chem and eligibility to enroll in Math 150. Not open to students with credit for H201. Safety glasses must be worn in lab. This course is available for EM credit with permission. GEC phys sci course. NS Admis Cond course.

Breakdown: Bob Whitsett famously said that he wasn't a chemistry major. All championship winning teams need good chemistry. The Blazers certainly seemed to thrive in that department this season, but Oden wasn't involved as much due to injury and foul problems. Thus, we need him to master the team chemistry that Roy and gang have personified.

MILSCI 301 - 0010 Military Operations at Small Unit Level

Overview of military tactics conducted at the infantry squad, platoon, and company level; analyze military missions and plan military operations, train and lead squad in execution of battle drills.
Au Qtr. 3 1-hr cl, 1 2-hr leadership lab, 3 1-hr physical training labs. Prereq: 203 or department position.

Breakdown: If you've read Sum-Zoo's "The Art of War" you probably already know the catch phrases used to describe preparing for battle. The NBA game is a war in the paint. Greg needs to learn the tactics and strategies.

WOMSTDS 326 - 0010 Women and Addiction: A Feminist Perspective

An interdisciplinary feminist focus on addictive consequences of sex-role socialization, substance abuse, addiction in intimate relationships, and eating disorders; medical/social consequences of addiction among women.
Not open to students with credit for 301.

Breakdown: Even if Greg never becomes good at basketball, at least he will be able to impress BlazerFan1 with his worldly knowledge.

Poll

What class should Oden take this summer? (the answers still have space available at the Columbus campus)

Restorative Dentistry II

21 votes

Survey of Sports Medicine

46 votes

General Chemistry

13 votes

Military Operations at a Small Unit Level

82 votes

Women and Addiction: A Feminist Perspective

48 votes

210 votes | Poll has closed

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LMFAO!!!!!!!!!!

Hilarious! Rec’d! Tom you never disappoint. Obviously women and addiction is the class not to miss.

by dario argento on May 6, 2009 12:25 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

He needs to take the military class for sure

Maybe he could gain a little killer instinct from it. If Greg were a dentist I’d be terrified of his massive hands and tiny dental tools getting near my teeth lol, so I hope he stays away from his other dream.

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by EazyRider on May 6, 2009 12:26 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

+1

That was funny. I voted for chemistry, gotta take this somewhat seriously. I’m kidding. It’s true. And funny — in my brain!

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by bforsythe on May 6, 2009 12:27 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

he needs to come to osu

and take tech writing with me, ill practice with him everyday and he can live at my place for free

by elconquistador on May 6, 2009 12:28 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

I'm taking that class this summer too.

I’m doing it online though.

by ColeFitz88 on May 6, 2009 12:45 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

somehow, i don't imagine greg having trouble finding affordable living for a summer course :P

If I've said it once, I've said it a million times: I heart Portland!!!

by saregister on May 6, 2009 3:15 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Greg and Mike lived in the same apartment as me last summer.

And on the same floor.

Arena district (about 100 bars in a four block radius). I doubt they went out a ton around there though. I don’t think they were even 21 yet at the time.

It was fascinating to see their cars in the garage all the time.

I never actually saw Greg, but I met Mike a couple times. One morning my roommate was on the elevator with Greg and so completely just blown away he didn’t even say hi (up until then we didn’t know he was living there).

Q: Is Greg favoring his knee?
Frye: He favors dunking on your head, that's what he favors.

by KP Corleone on May 6, 2009 4:59 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Biology or Chemistry classes would be my best guess

by Norsktroll on May 6, 2009 12:33 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Military courses

He can tell his grand kids he served.

I try to help with everything," Fernandez said. "If the coach says go rebound, I go rebound. I work for the team.

""If I'm playing this game to get media and attention, I shouldn't be here," Aldridge said. "I'm here to play basketball, and do what I can do to help this team win."

His stare became blank. It was apparent he was back in that place, on the Rose Garden's logo, picking up Aaron Brooks as the crowd nervously roared.

by Dragonage on May 6, 2009 12:38 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

The best Oden goes to school post yet!

"I saw him in the face" Sergio's quote on the latest alley-oop to Rudy.

by blazermaniac32 on May 6, 2009 12:47 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs

Sports medicine

That way he can do preventative treatment all summer long.

by senormateo on May 6, 2009 12:58 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Fantastic

up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, enter

by The Arkitect on May 6, 2009 1:08 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Aren't there any dance classes offered at OSU?

We all know Greg likes to boogie

I have not yet begun to defile myself.

by EngineerScotty on May 6, 2009 1:09 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

isn’t it THE OSU?

I think OSU is just down the freeway in little ol’ corvalis…

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by saregister on May 6, 2009 3:17 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I forgot the "t" as in tOSU

How did I forget that all-important t?

I have not yet begun to defile myself.

by EngineerScotty on May 6, 2009 4:06 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

(t)OSU

"Should I ask? What's a punani?" - by annthefan on May 3, 2009 1:55 PM

by Sexual Tyrannosaurus on May 6, 2009 4:19 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Singing classes? He needs to work on his chops for his next karaoke session.

by dario argento on May 6, 2009 1:38 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

-1

For bringing back painful memories of Gen Chem. I was hoping to go the rest of my life without hearing the word “stoichiometry” again. That’s no way to spend a summer.

by T$ 225 on May 6, 2009 1:40 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Did you ever take Organic chem?

by staylost on May 6, 2009 2:38 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

No

I was a creative writing major, but for some reason thought Gen Chem would be more educational than painful as a means of satisfying the science requirement.

by T$ 225 on May 6, 2009 2:41 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

My freshman roommate

Took Orgo as a freshman. He got an A in the class while Junior and Senior chem majors were barely passing. Then again, he spent his spring break building a plasma torch and vaporizing things (magnesium was a favorite).

by DonkeyShins on May 7, 2009 10:25 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

that was kind of my thought too...

that brought back some seriously bad memories of memorizing mole formulas, conversions, and finding atomic masses of natural sugars that I’ll NEVER need to know EVER again. I’m currently taking a semi-conductor physics class that is dealing with electron/hole configuration too. It is every bit as painful.

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by saregister on May 6, 2009 3:19 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

your mom is an electron hole

by T$ 225 on May 6, 2009 3:44 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I was a chem major

I actually used that stuff in the real world. You could, too!

by Section323 on May 6, 2009 4:44 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I was too...

As much fun as that was, I don’t see GO taking science courses, cause with lab, it’s like two courses for the credit of one.

by PunkBroc on May 6, 2009 6:37 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Yeah, I guess we got our money's worth

I always envied the math majors (except for the fact that they had to take all those math classes). About a quarter of the time spent per class compared to a chemistry class.

by Section323 on May 6, 2009 8:08 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

He took biology last year

Class + lab, 3 days a week. Just about the most real world science class there is, if ya ask me.

by Corvid on May 6, 2009 8:19 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I majored in Geology for 2 years and switched to Biology

About as real as it gets

by southern oregon on May 6, 2009 8:37 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

tominrehab--

dude, you have been on fire lately. Rec!

I like the whole team.

by RenoBlazerFan on May 6, 2009 2:25 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

hahaahahahahahahhahah

Best of Senator Clay Davis: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TI4-QyAzY64&feature=related

by cloudydays on May 6, 2009 2:37 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

awesome.

by robrun2 on May 6, 2009 2:45 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

I said the military class. general chem should just not try to be ingested over a shortened summer course. i barely grasped it over 16 weeks of trying…

plus, i think the military course sounds interesting too! I wish I could take a couple of classes like that here at SDSU. Guess i’ll just have to stick to golf class and bowling class.

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by saregister on May 6, 2009 3:21 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Sum Zoo?

ROFL

You had me rolling with the first subordinate clause (about micromanaging). – Elgin

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by 22baylor on May 6, 2009 4:01 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

I know Greg had designs on being a dentist

but from a practical standpoint, ther eis no way in hell I’m going to a dentist with hands that big. Now open wide, real wide.

That being said, the women’s studies calss sure looks a lot like your going to be studying women’s social role issues with image and diet related additicions with stimulants and eating disorders. In other words, it’s one of those gotcha classes that sound really interesting but turn out to be very boring, especially for guys who misinterpret the class title.

By the way, it’s clear that greg should be learning military strategy. Some of that material might actually prove usefull for Greg. FYI Greg, you (and Joel) are the armor division of our team, Roy, Aldridge, and Trout are the infantry, Blake, Rudy and Martel are the artilary, and currently the rest are all infantry.

by NWfan on May 6, 2009 4:15 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs