Before Monday’s Astrophysics midterm, the TAs said “Do not expect to finish the exam. You will not.”
Before today’s Development midterm, the professor said “This is a long exam. Do not panic. I don’t expect you to finish.”
In both cases, the exam-givers were right. Today, nobody left before time was called, and I noticed several people [...]
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Taking a Thrashing
In reviewing for my Development Economics midterm tomorrow, I came across this gem of a quote that I wrote down in my class notes.
“Consider this contract a parent could have with his child:
1) If you don’t clean up your room, I’ll thrash you.
2) If you do clean up your room, you get nothing.
You see, I’m [...]
(FF)
When the New York Times announced that they were going to offer all of their content for free, I wasn’t sure how many people would care. Apparently, a lot; the previously paywalled columnists are becoming permanent fixtures in the list of most e-mailed articles. I glanced at it today and saw this:
I was surprised to [...]
Rant of Requirement
Today was the first section of lab for my Astrophysics class. Exciting, right? Hardly. Today’s “lab” was a review of mathematical functions. We were given a packet, and had to (1) use a calculator to come up with BASIC computations, (2) graph some things, (3) compute some more physics-y things like “how many kilometers are [...]
It Upsets Me if My Enemy Eats an Apple
“For most of you, this class will probably be your first modeling experience. My college development class was mine. Well, actually, my first modeling experience was in middle school. I went to an all boy’s school and we put on a play. I had to wear a sari. Anyway.”
Three back-to-back classes today. The first was [...]