Hi Everyone,
I'm writing an article about swimmers and career success, and I'm wondering what you all have to say on the topic.
Do you think swimmers achieve greater career success than other types of athletes?
If so, why?
I'm going to run a poll, but I also welcome responses here in this forum or privately.
Thanks in advance for your responses,
Bill
Parents
Former Member
Originally posted by DAP
When I was in college, my electrical engineering class had four athletes from the swim team out of 36 total EE students. There were no other sports represented in my class. It left me with the impression that swimmers were smarter and more disciplined than the other athletes. Engineering was tough, and the additional responsibilities of swim meets and practices definitely required discipline.
When I would take the easier introductory humanities courses, that's where I would find the football, basketball, and baseball players.
I'm not sure what you mean by this statement. What level was your engineering class that you m ention? How did you do when you took higher level social studies classes. I know where I went to college the 400 level Anthropoly and History classs were considered some of the most difficult classes on campus. If you weere at a Liberal Arts college or university, you probably found a very wide range of students in the lowere level classes at all levels.
Personally, I found electrical engineering to be very boring becausee it ws concerned with such a limited subject matter.
Originally posted by DAP
When I was in college, my electrical engineering class had four athletes from the swim team out of 36 total EE students. There were no other sports represented in my class. It left me with the impression that swimmers were smarter and more disciplined than the other athletes. Engineering was tough, and the additional responsibilities of swim meets and practices definitely required discipline.
When I would take the easier introductory humanities courses, that's where I would find the football, basketball, and baseball players.
I'm not sure what you mean by this statement. What level was your engineering class that you m ention? How did you do when you took higher level social studies classes. I know where I went to college the 400 level Anthropoly and History classs were considered some of the most difficult classes on campus. If you weere at a Liberal Arts college or university, you probably found a very wide range of students in the lowere level classes at all levels.
Personally, I found electrical engineering to be very boring becausee it ws concerned with such a limited subject matter.
