Day: April 2, 2013

The North Carolina State University (where Kelly and Christian go to school) is very cool.  Notice the “at Raleigh” ending of their current official name.  It is almost never used, but very cool that it is there.  Here is the progression of names:

• North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (1887)
• North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineering (1918)
• North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineering of the University of North Carolina (1931)
• North Carolina State of the University of North Carolina at Raleigh (1963)
• North Carolina State University at Raleigh (1965)

A very cool quote from the article in Wikipedia having to do with the fact that NCSU is a Land Grant school is the following:

…Chapel Hill’s “elitist” education did not meet the mandate set forth by the Morrill Land-Grant Act

Day 589 of 1000

I am out in Prescott again with lots of stuff about which I want to write, but no time to do any writing.  Our friend, Margaret, left a comment that pointed me to a great article on inventing one’s own job and teaching people the skills they need to invent their own jobs.  I have put on my list of topics, because it is a worthy article both for a read and for commentary.  I guess I will just have to get to it when I get to it.  I am mostly through one series of posts on Why not skip high school? and have another set of posts about how to teach programming for kids, so it is not like I have writer’s block or anything.  I can hardly wait to get going.  I should have an hour or two later this afternoon.