[00:00.00]NARRATOR: Listen to a conversation between a student and a professor.
[00:06.10]FEMALE PROFESSOR: Excuse me, can I help you?[00:08.38] You look a little lost.
[00:09.82]MALE STUDENT: Yeah, I am. [00:10.87]This is my first day on campus, and I don't know where anything is.
[00:14.20]FEMALE PROFESSOR:Can't find your orientation session?
[00:16.25]MALE STUDENT: Uh-huh. What a way to begin? [00:18.18]lost going to orientation.
[00:19.70]FEMALE PROFESSOR: Well, my guess is it's in the auditorium. That's where they usually are.
[00:24.09]MALE STUDENT: You're right—the general ones. [00:25.78]I went to one of those sessions earlier today. [00:28.13]But now I need the one for my major—engineering.[00:30.95] My schedule says the meeting room is in Johnson Hall, [00:34.58]in the engineering department, which should be right here in front of us, according to the map—[00:39.47]but this building's called the Morgan Hall!
[00:42.13]FEMALE PROFESSOR: Well, your map-reading skills are fine, actually. [00:45.71]This used to be Johnson Hall all right—trouble is they changed the name to Morgan Hall last spring. [00:51.51]So they sent you a map with the old name? [00:53.92]I'm surprised.
[00:55.14]MALE STUDENT: Well, this was actually mailed out months and months ago. [00:58.67]I got a second packet in the mail more recently?with another one of these maps in it. [01:02.75]I guess it must have the updated name.[01:05.04] I left that one in my dorm room.
[01:07.24]FEMALE PROFESSOR: Well, things change fast around here. [01:09.96]This building was renamed after one of our professors. [01:12.60]She retired a few months ago. [01:14.50]She's really well known in the world of physics. [01:16.99]Too bad for Johnson, I guess.
[01:18.76]MALE STUDENT: Who was Johnson, anyway?
[01:20.25]FEMALE PROFESSOR: Oh, one of the early professors here. [01:22.52]Unfortunately, I guess his ideas are going out of style.[01:25.96] Science keeps marching forward.
[01:27.75]MALE STUDENT: I'll say it does.[01:28.84] That's why I transferred to this university. [01:30.97]I was really impressed with all the research equipment you guys have at the laboratories? [01:34.85]You're really on the forefront.
[01:36.42]FEMALE PROFESSOR: Um, so do you know what kind of engineering you want to specialize in?
[01:40.49]MALE STUDENT: Yeah. Aerospace engineering.
[01:42.39]FEMALE PROFESSOR: Well, the aerospace engineering department here is excellent?[01:45.86]uh, do you know that this university was the first one in the country to offer a program in aerospace engineering?
[01:51.57]MALE STUDENT: Yeah, I know...[01:52.69]and a couple students who graduated from here became astronauts and orbited the Earth!
[01:56.46]FEMALE PROFESSOR: Right—the department has many prominent alumni. [01:59.93][pause]Well, you might end up taking some of your advanced math courses with me. [02:04.29]I get a lot of the students from the engineering department because I teach the required applied mathematics courses.
[02:10.25]MALE STUDENT: Oh, cool. Actually, I want to get a minor in math.
[02:13.35]FEMALE PROFESSOR: Excellent. Hmm ?a major in aerospace engineering with a minor in math. You'll go far with that degree. [02:20.57]More of our students should do that—[02:22.55]there are so many more opportunities available in the field when you have a strong math background.
[02:27.33]MALE STUDENT: I'm glad to hear you say that!
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