Post by Monika on Jan 24, 2011 12:38:55 GMT -5
FFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK PHYSICS CLASS. IT'S SO HARD AND WE HAVEN'T EVEN DONE ANYTHING YET. CALCULUS TWO, LINEAR NETWORKS AND CIRCUITS, ORIENTATION AND GOLF COMBINED DO NOT CONSTITUTE EVEN HALF OF THE DIFFICULTY OF MY PHYSICS CLASS. I'M MOVING TO AWESOME LAND SOON, WHERE I'LL NEVER HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT THIS CRAP AGAIN.
/rage
My professor, the coffee addict Dr. Burns, revealed to us why he is the hardest Physics prof. in the school...BECAUSE HE ACTUALLY WANTS US TO LEARN THE STUFF. Turns out at his college they forced him to learn, and now he's taking it out on us. During his sophomore year, all those second years had to take some test called the Sophomore Comp (a comprehensive test covering a bunch of random liberal arts things they should know) or something, and if they didn't pass it, they weren't allowed to return to the school. Ever.
THEN, during his senior year, all the seniors had to take their FINAL BOSS EXAMINATION. Equipped with ONLY A PENCIL (no calcs, notes, equations, etc), he had to take a test that covered any of his major classes since his freshman year. Then after that, he had to take the TRUE FINAL EXAM. Armed with only his voice and some chalk (it was primarily an oral exam), he had to go in a room filled with a panel of his professors since his freshman year and answer questions that could be about anything he had ever learned ever. This test was required of all seniors and mandatory for graduation.
Dr. Burns told us that he was taught as most students are taught: the ol' "memorize everything the night before the test, ace the test and forget everything the day after" method. Because of this, studying for a test covering 4 years of information was absolute hell, and he resolved to learn the material instead. Upon graduation, he decided that once he became a professor, he would force his students to learn the material instead so they didn't have to suffer the same way he did.
WELL I'M STILL SUFFERING, although I see the logic behind his methods...Anyway, this entire rant is just a warning. If I don't make it out of college alive, it's because I died while trying to solve some centripetal acceleration in the X, Y and Z direction problem...
OFF TO STUDY!
/rage
My professor, the coffee addict Dr. Burns, revealed to us why he is the hardest Physics prof. in the school...BECAUSE HE ACTUALLY WANTS US TO LEARN THE STUFF. Turns out at his college they forced him to learn, and now he's taking it out on us. During his sophomore year, all those second years had to take some test called the Sophomore Comp (a comprehensive test covering a bunch of random liberal arts things they should know) or something, and if they didn't pass it, they weren't allowed to return to the school. Ever.
THEN, during his senior year, all the seniors had to take their FINAL BOSS EXAMINATION. Equipped with ONLY A PENCIL (no calcs, notes, equations, etc), he had to take a test that covered any of his major classes since his freshman year. Then after that, he had to take the TRUE FINAL EXAM. Armed with only his voice and some chalk (it was primarily an oral exam), he had to go in a room filled with a panel of his professors since his freshman year and answer questions that could be about anything he had ever learned ever. This test was required of all seniors and mandatory for graduation.
Dr. Burns told us that he was taught as most students are taught: the ol' "memorize everything the night before the test, ace the test and forget everything the day after" method. Because of this, studying for a test covering 4 years of information was absolute hell, and he resolved to learn the material instead. Upon graduation, he decided that once he became a professor, he would force his students to learn the material instead so they didn't have to suffer the same way he did.
WELL I'M STILL SUFFERING, although I see the logic behind his methods...Anyway, this entire rant is just a warning. If I don't make it out of college alive, it's because I died while trying to solve some centripetal acceleration in the X, Y and Z direction problem...
OFF TO STUDY!
