NARRATOR：

Listen to a conversation between a student and a professor.

FEMALE PROFESSOR：

Excuse me, can I help you? You look a little lost.

MALE STUDENT：

Yeah, I am. This is my first day on campus, and I don't know where anything is.

FEMALE PROFESSOR：

Can't find your orientation session?

MALE STUDENT：

Uh-huh. What a way to begin... lost going to orientation...

FEMALE PROFESSOR：

Well, my guess is it's in the auditorium. That's where they usually are.

MALE STUDENT：

You're right-the general ones. I went to one of those sessions earlier today.

But now I need the one for my major- engineering.

My schedule says the meeting room is in Johnson Hall, in the engineering department, which should be right here in front of us, according to the map- [tone of exasperation]but this building's called the Morgan Hall!

FEMALE PROFESSOR：

Well, your map-reading skills are fine, actually.

This used to be Johnson Hall all right-trouble is they changed the name to Morgan Hall last spring.

So they sent you a map with the old name? I'm surprised.

MALE STUDENT：

Well, this was actually mailed out months and months ago.

I got a second packet in the mail more recently... with another one of these maps in it.

I guess it must have the updated name. I left that one in my dorm room.

FEMALE PROFESSOR：

Well, things change fast around here.

This building was renamed after one of our professors.

She retired a few months ago. She's really well known in the world of physics.

Too bad for Johnson, I guess.

MALE STUDENT：

Who was Johnson, anyway?

FEMALE PROFESSOR：

Oh, one of the early professors here. Unfortunately, I guess his ideas are going out of style. Science keeps marching forward.

MALE STUDENT：

I'll say it does. That's why I transferred to this university.

I was really impressed with all the research equipment you guys have at the laboratories... You're really on the forefront.

FEMALE PROFESSOR：

Um, so do you know what kind of engineering you want to specialize in?

MALE STUDENT：

Yeah. Aerospace engineering.

FEMALE PROFESSOR：

Well, the aerospace engineering department here is excellent... uh, do you know that this university was the first one in the country to offer a program in aerospace engineering?

MALE STUDENT：

[enthusiastic]Yeah, I know... and a couple students who graduated from here became astronauts and orbited the Earth!

FEMALE PROFESSOR：

Right-the department has many prominent alumni.

Well, you might end up taking some of your advanced math courses with me.

I get a lot of the students from the engineering department because I teach the required applied mathematics courses.

MALE STUDENT：

Oh, cool. Actually, I want to get a minor in math.

FEMALE PROFESSOR：

Excellent. [musing tone]Hmm... a major in aerospace engineering with a minor in math. You'll go far with that degree.

More of our students should do that- there are so many more opportunities available in the field when you have a strong math background.

MALE STUDENT：

I'm glad to hear you say that!