re: LSU to build a new Construction & Advanced Manufacturing Building

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I’ll never forget the look the guys in my estimating class gave me when I said I just took a Calculus 3 exam. I don’t think they even knew that Calculus went up that high

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and now you work for them

lol imagine bragging about calculus 3

The only hard thing about diff eq was LSU had a bunch of foreign professors that barely understood English teaching it

Didn’t help that the physics and math teachers hated each other

Paul Britt was my professor for Calc 2 and it was a goddamn nightmare

I hope his website still exists. He liked dinos and speaker systems

ETA: Paige Davis was pretty hot for a professor at CEBA. She looked and sounded like a woman who drank a bunch of whiskey and smoked Winstons

CEBA was like a rat maze. If you found your classroom, you should have got a piece of cheese.

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Construction management at LSU is an elite program and cranks out tons of high paying jobs.

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the three CM grads at my tiny company each make more in their twenties than I made in my forties. It’s the absolute best career path if you have the combination of sales skills and ability to analyze. BR is extremely fortunate to have that talent stying close by because their ain’t going to be much else in not too long

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Schools should be retracting not expanding.

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LSU is bucking the trend. What you'll see is private liberal arts schools declining. Public state universities (especially land grant schools) with good engineering, agriculture, education, business, and medical programs for the most part will expand, maybe not drastically but some definitely will.

Meanwhile, people in North Carolina only getting $750

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three CM grads at my tiny company each make more in their twenties than I made in my forties.

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This. I'm partial because I'm an aluminum but the LSU CM graduates in my large houston based company excel. Most come to Houston with no ties and work their asses off. We are to the point that my execs are begging me to get more LSU people.

See yall at CID!

Its crazy how much I pass by campus or have been on or near campus and don't know all of these new buildings. In the Summer of 2009 I took a class and I remember they were in the beginning phase of the engineering build. I think that's what it was, I just remember the parking lot that used to be for CEBA was blocked off because of construction. Other than that being built, it seemed like campus was pretty much the same as it was in Spring of 2002. Well also the union, but now it seems like a lot of things have changed.

I read awhile back that there were plans to tear down Locket. And the new basketball arena is going to be built on the golf course right? I remember this past Spring, I went to a friend of mine's house who lives in University Club and the NCAA golf tournament was being held there and he told me he wasn't sure, but he thought that it would be the permanent home for the LSU golf team. They need to put a parking garage where the PMAC is now.

As a person who hired in the manufacturing industry, I’m glad to see it. We have hired a lot out of A&M’s similar curriculum. Actually making things, like we do in LA, is an important thing to teach. I see this as a crossover between college and trade schools. A move in that direction is good. It will guarantee good jobs out of school and not just a bunch of engineers who don’t have a clue how things are made. I can’t tell you how many times I get drawings from engineers who can’t fathom how things are actually made in a manufacturing environment. I’m my experience, when someone says they are an engineer, their intelligence is discounted instead of elevated.