Dave Evans
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2,777 appearances
6 recordings
4 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 6 Jul
Dave Evans’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And there are a group of people in the education school and psychology department who work on intervening in ways that might be helpful to these students.
And one of the results was it turned out as short as a 15-minute intervention with a first-generation student
on the narrative they're telling themselves can have a transformative effect that lasts not only all four years of college, but five or 10 years after.
And the narrative simply is not, yeah, you're under-resourced and all those guys who went to the prep school are going to kick your butt.
That story is then replaced by the reason you're here is you're highly capable.
You can do this work and there are lots of resources to help you that you can avail yourself of.
And if that store, that alternate narrative is offered to that first-gen student by another first-gen student two or three years older than them for whom it has worked, they believe it.
And literally that 15 minutes, their performance changes permanently.
Well, if you ever take a look at your neighborhood fire hydrant, there's a little, you know, cover over the nozzle where the water comes out on one side.
And on the other side of that thing, there's a little post sticking out.
That's actually the valve that opens and closes the hydrant.
And if you look at it, it's in the shape of a pentagon.
It's in the shape of a five-sided pentagon.
And the reason is because we don't want people opening fire hydrants who don't know what they're doing.
And so when I went into mechanical engineering and went into the PRL, the Product Realization Lab,
which you might call the machine shop.
I walked in there with a great big chunk of brass and the idea was to mill that thing into a fire hydrant wrench that had one of those pentagon things on it on the one hand and a kind of special curvy thing on the other to take the cover off because you need one of those if you're fighting a fire.
It went very unsmoothly because I didn't know what I was doing.
I'd never done anything like that before.
I didn't know how to use a mill or a lathe or a high-speed metal bandsaw.
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