The Cost

Nearly every year students will get together and calculate the actual cost of going to a single class. Engineers love this exercise because it motivates them to get their homework done. But I think it is time that the numbers were actually written down for everyone to see.

So here are a few metrics of what you pay to go to this school and what you waste when you skip a class.

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Cost of a Class

The cost for each hour you spend listening to lectures

Tuition = $42,898/year (from the Riddle Website)
Credit Hours = 15/semester (average course load)
Weeks = 15/semester (including finals week)
Semesters = 2/year

So the cost of a single hour of class is:
Cost = 42898/(2*15*15)

Cost = $95.33/lecture

Now is it worth it to skip a class

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Cost for Each Hour Worked

Now lets break this down as you would an hourly job too see what you are paying for each hour you put into your homework as well as class.

Tuition = $42,898/year
Weeks = 15/semester (including finals week)
Semesters = 2/year
Hours in Class = 15/week
Hours of Homework = 7/day (an average for all years of a studious student)
Hours of Homework = 7*7hr/week = 54hr/week (Note: more than the average work week)

Cost = 42898/[(54+15)*15*2)]

Cost = $20.72/hour

Note: if you work fewer hours on homework your time is worth even more.

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Cost for Every Hour 

This is what you pay for every hour  as a student at riddle (including sleeping)

Tuition = $42,898/year
Weeks = 15/semester (including finals week)
Day = 7/week
Hours = 24/day
Semesters = 2/year

Cost =42898/(2*15*7*24)

Cost = $8.10/hour

That is what the average fast food worker gets paid and you are paying it while you are sleeping.

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Now is it clear what you or your parents are paying to be at this school. Please don't waste it.

Riddle is an amazing school and if you don't waste your time (and money) while your here it will be worth it.

Getting Involved

For all of you looking for clubs to get involved in, Riddle has over 100 organizations,

You can see a list of all organizations on the Control Tower (which everyone should have joined) or talk to everyone of them during the Activity Fair coming up next week.

A hundred clubs is a bunch. Normally everyone can find something to be a part of.

Want to build planes? AIAA Design Build Fly goes to competition every year.

Want to skydive? There's a club for that.

Anime' your thing? Normally meet every Sunday.

Want to start a company? Launch is getting going this semester.

Want to make some some good friend and connections? The Frats and Sororities are in full  swing.

Want to run for a student government office? Be a part of the Freshmen Class Council.

Love Sweater vests? There may still be a club for that.

Want to organize entertainers for Campus? Board of Campus Activities.

I could go on and on with this but then there would be no reason for Control Tower. Go there and start browsing then be ready for the Club Fair.

I Can See the Air. Now What?

Alright. By this time everyone is settled into their rooms and are beginning to get comfortable. This means that laundry is piling up, and people are spending more time in their rooms breathing. A very common circumstance.But with the smells of comfort come a few that are just not something that will ever be put into a scented candle.

Some of you may have realized that in Mingus air does not circulate very well. If there is something hanging in the air it is going to continue to hang. And since Febreeze will set of the fire alarms that is not really an option.

So how does one refresh an area when the air has a color. Here are some tricks for Mingus.

1. Put Dryer sheets in the AC's
• This is used all the time and is a cheap and good way to refresh the air that comes from a 20 year old AC
2. If using windows open one in the room and one on the opposite side of the suite
• Air will only flow if it can go through the whole suite
3. Clean your laundry
• No Brainer
4. Contain Shoes
• If you can put shoes in a box or a some other container when you take them off then that will eliminate one of the top Dorm odors
5. Use standard cleaners 
• Clean the whole room so that anything that was in there when you first came will be gone.
6. Take a mint
• breathing does build up 
7. Take a shower
• Some engineers have a hard time with this one, so its being written down

And now you will have a suite that smells like a bed of roses. Or at least Fresh Scent dryer sheets.

Academic Calendar

You are all going to need this to plan for trips and buy tickets. The academic calendar is set in stone.

Prescott Academic Calendar