Old 10-14-2009, 02:13 PM   #161
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That prof was retarded.

PS you should go with a darker color for slide backgrounds because they're less grating on the eyes in a dark conference room. I knew that business minor would come in handy someday!
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Old 10-14-2009, 02:25 PM   #162
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That teacher sounds absolutely horrible. I am glad she was fired -- people who assign crap like that are nothing more than huge obstacles when it comes to learning ****.

Rules 35-37 are absolute bull**** lmao, way to set up some absurdly awkward and choppy presentations there, professor.

There was a professor at Penn who I think was fired (never verified for myself, but I know he no longer teaches there)... I had him for a math class but I luckily switched out to a slightly higher math class and took the midterm there on the same day having not taken the class before lmao -- didn't do super well but I got an A in the class in the end, which is what matters.

Anyways, this dude spoke bull**** for like an hour and just SCRAWLED the **** out of the chalkboard... it was a mess. He'd write diagonally, squeeze things into random spots, and just yammer at 88 MPH and nobody understood what the hell he was doing. Then came the midterm, and it was equally bull****. 90% (yes, there were 10 questions and 9 of them did this) of the questions started off with "According to lecture..." and proceeded to ask crap that wasn't taught in the book... we were basically being tested on how well we could memorize and decipher the dross that the professor was spewing. I decided to drop that course once I realized I would have, at best, gotten maybe 1 question correct by no fault of my own.

I later learned that everyone in that class completely nosedived the midterm (15% average) and yet people got A's in the end... so I have to assume some administrative influence came into effect.


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I later learned that everyone in that class completely nosedived the midterm (15% average) and yet people got A's in the end... so I have to assume some administrative influence came into effect.
I wrote about this in SUPER SECARET FORUMZ during my college years.

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32.

Out of 60, but still, 32. So yeah, I failed the exam. There's no shame in that. To be honest, in the academic world, I'm used to failure. So of course I listen intently for the word "curve". Instead I get this.

"The average score was in the thirties. This is a pretty standard trend we see in this class anyway, so don't feel like this grade will hurt you too much. Just do well on your projects!"

Wait, so... you knew most of the class was going to fail when you gave us the exam. In that case, shouldn't you, I don't know, fix the exam?! An exam tests whether or not you're learning anything in the class. If the class average is "fail", then that means most of the people in the class aren't learning anything.

Here's a tip! Either dumb down the exam or learn how to teach your goddamn class. You can't expect everyone to pass an exam, but to expect everyone to fail? Seriously? How is that going to make people try harder? If everyone fails, the University says they all pass and that it's the teacher's fault. According to this guy, that's the way it's been since the course was introduced. And this course is required for all IT majors. Not only that, it's a pre-requisite to a bunch of future classes.

This isn't the only class that I've managed to fail the exam and have no repercussions from doing so. Not by a long shot. It seems the idea is to teach whatever the hell you want, then make an exam that meets some random standards set by the university that may or may not meet up with what's "taught" in the classroom, then curve the grades to reflect on university standards.

So I've learned that failure is irrelevant in the real world. That's a great thing to teach future network security analysts, right? I mean, we mess up, no big deal, right? Sure, some networks may fail miserably and companies might lose billions of dollars as a result, but who cares? You can curve that loss into a profit, right?
In short, college is dumb.

Also, I wrote this before the "Projects" were graded. The average grade on them was a 30/90. Yet, pretty much everybody passed the class in the end.

Professors aren't allowed to fail everybody. Some aren't even allowed to pass everybody. It's dumb, but those are the rules. If everybody fails, then everybody passes. Even though this means that nobody in the teacher-student relationship is benefiting from the class at all. The professor isn't learning how to teach, and the students aren't learning the material.

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You'd be more apathetic if you weren't so lethargic.
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Old 10-14-2009, 05:45 PM   #165
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I think lethargic means apathetic... doesn't it?
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Old 10-14-2009, 06:07 PM   #166
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GG_Guru you're a complete retard so you should just stop posting and go back to school where hopefully you can learn some people skills as well.

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I think lethargic means apathetic... doesn't it?
No, lethargic means you're sluggish and not alert, apathetic means you just don't care. Try the dictionary next time rofl.

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I think lethargic means apathetic... doesn't it?
The phrase means 'I'd care less if I weren't so lazy."

Stay in school, kids.
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No, lethargic means you're sluggish and not alert, apathetic means you just don't care. Try the dictionary next time rofl.
OXFORD AMERICAN DICTIONARY:
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affected by lethargy; sluggish and apathetic.

Good idea, i'm glad i looked in the dictionary.
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looks like you need a better dictionary lmfao

well I guess they COULD be synonyms

lethargic: deficient in alertness or activity
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looks like you need a better dictionary lmfao

well I guess they COULD be synonyms

lethargic: deficient in alertness or activity
apathetic: showing little or no emotion or animation.
Damn Dictionary lettin me down.
And yeah, so i guess i've been using it somewhat wrong.
Oh well, it wasn't THAT wrong.
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Old 10-14-2009, 06:29 PM   #172
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where the hell is rubix

solve the goddamn problem
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Old 10-14-2009, 06:47 PM   #173
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Blue: y=-2x+3
Red: y=x-6

If you have math problems, ask Rubix on his profile. If he isn't online, post it on mine.

I'm not as smart, but I don't have to be to do algebra.

To Squeek, I love that joke. For everyone who doesn't get the joke:

The man is saying he is too lazy to care less. He's suggesting that not caring takes too much effort. Funniest joke ever.

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Old 10-14-2009, 08:29 PM   #174
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dammit rubix answer my question
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Old 10-14-2009, 10:19 PM   #175
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it's a family guy reference, geez everybody calm down
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Old 10-15-2009, 12:09 AM   #176
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http://www.usamts.org/Tests/USAMTSProblems_21_1.pdf

Problem 3

This is a very, very fascinating problem with a very, very cool solution.

Rubix I challenge you.
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stargroup I'm pretty sure the solution involves inscribing a circle, am I correct?
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Haha, I feel like the first time I did anything with code golf, I was showing you how to make your program smaller. Except now you've apparently switched languages so I would be useless. Maybe it wasn't you?

Squeek: Wow, ridiculous rules for that presentation >.>
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Haha, I feel like the first time I did anything with code golf, I was showing you how to make your program smaller. Except now you've apparently switched languages so I would be useless. Maybe it wasn't you?

Squeek: Wow, ridiculous rules for that presentation >.>
I'm pretty sure it wasn't me. I haven't seen/talked with you at either codegolf.com or anagol, and I've never switched languages (I use ruby/perl/python for golfing)
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stargroup I'm pretty sure the solution involves inscribing a circle, am I correct?
I don't know if that method will work, but I just solved it using the most basic logic
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