My class schedules and teaching didn't give me the time to walk to the museum to participate in coffee breaks or other activities. Introduced us to interesting restaurants and — included whatever son was visiting DC with us — engaging all in memorable conversations. Griffin chatted about the site with them — he always responded to their curiosity and treated them as potential adults (as I understood was his approach to many graduate students). By my second field season I was sent to excavate a 3 meter-thick Army midden on Mackinac Island, which my new wife thought a poor excuse for a honeymoon (although it lent me some cachet as connoisseur of cheap Victorian tableware). Poor excuse for a student clue sign. Nothing written on board, no handouts, and no study guides. He only grades by a midterm and final with the final being worth more (60%). Eventually my secret came out, and I'll never forget the time when one famed curator said, after one sip, "I see Anderson brought in the good stuff today! " Carefully review the information on using context clues.
Jimmy Griffin thought I had sneaked into the museum by the back door, having been accepted into the Anthropology Department by a linguist and a cultural anthropologist. Consider taking a gap year before applying. Mary and Jimmy (finally! How to write a excuse for school. ) There were also a couple of good calculating machines available for anybody involved in quantitative analyses. Textbook: Classes were very boring so prepare for very long hours of lectures. I wish I took his other class. I even corrected some young upstarts about the dating of the Quina Mousterian at La Quina in JHE recently, so I guess some of the neurons are still firing. He is vague on how to write the only two essays you will write. After all, applicants have more control over when and how many times they take the LSAT than they do over undergraduate grades.
He gives points for adding on in discussion but this points aren't much. Other than that, I walked by the coffee room and his office on my way to a "continuing education" class in Museum Studies — putting catalog numbers on sherds in the Great Lakes Range. Clear grading criteria. Poor excuse for a student club.com. Unless you're a time traveler or a master computer hacker – in which cases law school may not be for you – you can't change your transcript. Just him standing in front of class reading from his notes. Just listening in class should earn you AT LEAST a B-! Take good enough notes(easy)and you wont need the book.
So no need for notes just study the slides from that website. My grandmother suffers from hydrophobia, which is a fear of water, so she never learned to swim. Griffin was their fierce advocate; including students not accepted into the Ph. The crew included graduate students Martha Rolingson, Richard and Karen Ford, Henry Wright, John Speth and Fred Fisher; with undergraduates Dianne Foster, Thom Apler, Jerry Vanni, Liz Sterr, and Sydney Harrison; with Dick Morland and Jasmina Stefanovic from Canada and Yugoslavia, respectively. The interaction with faculty and staff, and new incoming students each year was priceless, plus I could open every cabinet and pull out the drawers and look at the sherds in the type collections!
When searching for answers leave the letters that you don't know blank! I returned to Ann Arbor to pursue an MA in History but that didn't satisfy the Draft Board. They — even more than the Ph. Great guy TAKE HIM!!!!!!!
I am buying coffee cups for two people, both alas no longer with us, who helped me negotiate the mysteries of the Museum at UM, as well as one with my own name. Grades aren't the only way to show you can reason, write well and tackle mental challenges. Go to class and take good notes, study them and you'll be fine with the midterm and the final. I quickly learned what it took to break the ice… with some it was pretending to know something about Michigan sports, with others a good conversation could always be found about bringing up recent ideas or articles that were percolating in the profession. Great teacher- loves class involvement, crystal clear with lectures, great use of personal experiences to illustrate textbook examples. Phyllis Morse was the other teaching assistant. T care about his students. I started working in the North American Range during my junior year, after taking a class with John Speth and asking him what additional opportunities there might be for a student wanting to go on in anthropological archaeology. A fear of water is a definition. One is a midterm (40% of your grade) and one is a final exam (60% of your grade).
I did know that Margaret Mead was an Anthropologist, but I lived to tell the tale, with a PhD in hand by 1974. This professor is not hard, but not easy. E. g. B OTH R (BROTHER). Of course the kids found obsidian flakes! The story begins at Tappan Junior High in the mid-60s.
That experience served me very well, as I had the opportunity to see and even find quite a few more sherds like them across the region down through the years, and the summer of 1985 helped set up the ceramic type collection for South Carolina, using Dr. Griffin's approach that it was always a good idea to have several (or more) sherds for each classic type, to encompass at least some of the variability found in the pottery. There were financial considerations, as well. In the mid '50s I was Albert Spaulding's RA in the North American range (after a year as Kamer Aga Oglu's RA in the Division of the Orient). This class is lecture only straight from the book. As a long time coffee aficionado, once every couple of months I would bring in some really good coffee (Blue Mountain, typically, but occasionally Kona), and make a pot before the others came in. I say take his class I honestly put little effort into the class and ended up with a c+. An addendum should be brief, professional and forthright. Albert fixed his owlish gaze on him and said "Young man, I was in this very room when someone mentioned Fort Sumter and old Dr. Hinsdale piped up to say 'I remember that, all us boys tore South Carolina out of our geography books! One day in the coffee room the name of Calvin Coolidge somehow came up in the conversation (he was president when I was born). Best teacher i have every taken at CSUN. We had been living in Stuttgart, Germany, so there was a lot to figure out. However, if you find yourself piling up excuses or needless explanations, reconsider whether your addendum adds to your application or merely draws attention to your weak points. I had a much larger office space and library in the basement of the apartment where Jenalee and I were living (in Arrowwood Hills Cooperative, where several other UM students were living), and so did not mind the cramped quarters on campus in the North American range. Got a B+ on first midterm, A+ on the paper, and i am assuming an A on final as i got an A in the class.
B. good guy, explains everything in class so you dont have to read, but you need the book to do brief cases and the book is free online. Listen to his instructions or he gets angry but for goodness sake so would I! Take someone else if you're trying to learn the subject. For example, you don't need an addendum just because your first-year grades were embarrassingly low. I am glad I took his Sat Morning. For example, maybe you struggled with a mental health issue and your grades suffered for a semester. We bought a suburban house so I could qualify for in-state tuition and enrolled the boys in a nearby elementary school. Bon courage, Here is Art in October of 1975 at the Midwest Archaeological Conference honoring James B. Griffin.
Copyright Compliance Policy. 2 exams 1 paper do the case briefs you get points if you share your answer in class. Grades VERY easy, with a monster curve. If he calls on you be ready to answer too! Some just guzzled it down seemingly unaware of the change, others who were a bit more discerning mused about why the coffee was so good that day. I spent that summer in the museum developing my dissertation with access to Griffin's massive photo file of North American artifacts and sites. I arrived in Ann Arbor with my husband and our three sons (ages 6, 9, and 10) in June 1967, where Hal enrolled in a two-year Allergy Fellowship at UM Medical School. Lecture heavy class but encourages participation and questions. But coffee was the fuel that kept me working, and the coffee pot was the one indispensable part of the range, as far as I was concerned. Overall Quality Based on.
Business Law department. If you took a higher-level course in science or mathematics whose difficulty may not be readily apparent to readers of your transcript, consider providing context about the rigor of the material or average grades in the course. Then, your transcript report will include all of your senior-year grades, which may raise your cumulative GPA. P. L. A. N. T. S. Last Seen Crosswords. The next summer, Griffin covered my travel expenses to present my mollusk paper at the Midwest Archaeological meetings, commissioning me to deliver a car-full of early Mississippian ceramics to the St. Louis Academy. Everybody was studying hard but if you just get a point, this class is not hard at all. But the car, worn out criss-crossing Monroe County on survey, threw a rod in the middle of Illinois: if it hadn't been for those boxes of artifacts filling back seat and trunk I would have abandoned it, forgoing a 100 mile tow-truck ride. Faculty were rarely, if ever, present, and so we students felt less constrained in our behavior and conversation than during the daytime hours–like the night Chuck Cleland used an atlatl to propel a wooden spear with surprising speed and force down the full length of the main hallway, knocking a big chip of concrete out of the wall above the drinking fountain. As for student time in the range, it wasn't all studying… All the archaeologists in the museum made a point of starting their days by drinking coffee for breakfast and a few hours later eating lunch around the big table at the front of the range. Once, with young sons in tow, we walked freshly plowed fields of Chillicothe OH in late afternoon.
And it will be easier to focus on coursework without having to complete applications. Albert related that all the boys in the ROTC had to wear black armbands when Coolidge died and Gary Vescelius, a fellow grad student, quietly snorted and snickered. Memorize what's gonna be on the written exams. Last time I looked a couple of years ago that chip was still missing. ) Level of Difficulty.
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