I secretly wish you guys would keep it going because for some inexplicable reason Paul Carter getting mad amuses me to no end.
*I actually do like Paul Carter. I just have no interest in his work.
Come to think of it, maybe I’m so amused because of that old behind the neck press video.
I wouldn’t know how to keep it going. Once you present someone with reality and they refuse to acknowledge it, and start calling you names instead, what do you do?
You bring them even more evidence of reality? So he can keep shitting on it and on you?
You resort to excessive poo flinging, which seems to be the going trend around here lately.
Edit: “you” does not mean @samul specifically, just the general populace of “you”.
Fucking English and its lack of a specific plural “you”.
I’m just gonna call everything delts from now on. Leg delts, chest delts, calf delts Clavicular sternicodelts.subscapular delts.
Alright, I found the video.
This is how I picture Paul’s reaction ever time someone pisses him off lololol
Hey, so, about those confessions that the thread is supposed to be about.
I had leftover meatloaf and mashed potatoes for breakfast today. Wild. Right?!
I think you forgot to eat pizza 3 days in a row too.
On a positive note, I’m very happy because today I had my calculus exam and I scored 8/10 on the first, multiple answer part.
It was a really hard test that probably a third of the candidates passed, where each correct answer yielded 1 point and each wrong answer was negative .5. We had one hour to get through 10 questions.
I was unsure about two of them and left them blank. The eight ones I answered were all correct.
BIG win today. Should I have to do the exam again, I don’t have to re-do this part (which is by far the hardest), so I secured a big chunk of the final grade. And I can pick up those points I lost with the oral test.
I confess that his response to me pointing that out, which I did in a pretty benign manner, made me kind of annoyed, until l realized it was just his way of letting me know it was time for me to follow you out the door. @dagill2 remains as the last saint standing.
At the end of the year I try to use almost everything in pantry so I don’t end up with food that’s been in there for decades. And yes, I have helped people clean out their pantries and found stuff that was years out of date.
Now I have a three column grocery list. The people at HEB are going to love me Thursday lol
Hope the snotty sacker with glasses is there… we will have a teaching moment.
I’d never flame what seems like a perfectly reasonable thing to do
Kids these days…
Why would you leave answers blank in multiple choice? Were you penalised for incorrect answers?
What bothers me more is why in the world a calculus exam multiple choice
Lemme tell you, it was way more difficult than an open answer test. That type of test isn’t designed to test your ability to just apply formulas and rules, but rather to make the correct observations to simplify a problem.
An example of a question would be.
Let f(x) = [insert function here]. Then f(x):
Sometimes you would have to differentiate the function and study the sign to see if there were maxima/minima points. Sometimes a couple of limits would yield results in terms of boundedness. But more often than not, the function would be difficult to study in terms of limits or derivatives and we had little time to get through the exercises, so you would have to make observations (e.g. is this function monotone? Is it non-negative? If so, is there a solution to f(x)=0). A similar example would be being given a function and having to say whether it’s bijective, injective, surjective, or none. You would have to make observations on the domain, co-domain, sign, and limits.
And other questions were simply integrals or differential equations were the choices would directly be the possible results, and here I agree that it makes little sense for it to be multiple choice, but it is what it is.
This is an example of an actual question on those tests.
Don’t worry, no ambiguity on that part if you ask me
Also I have to make a related confession.
I recently realized that I LOVE calculus. I used to hate it because I sucked at it but I’m getting much better and I realized how interesting it is. It is so satisfying to understand such abstract yet useful concepts, that describe the physical world in a way that physical things themselves cannot describe.
I agree, Calculus is awesome.
I like differential equations (which is really still calculus). even more now that I have studied them quite a bit.
I see. Looks like some really well designed questions there.
This was what was bothering me:
Because Math isn’t just about applying formulas and rules. How you tackle a problem, find a solution, and think outside the box is equally, if not more important.
But as you said,
In their defense, the second part of the test (that you need to pass the multiple choice one first in order to gain access to) does just that.
You have 3 exercises. Study a function (and plot the graph), solve a (usually pretty badass) integral, and solve a differential equation + initial value problem. That’s where smart and simple solutions shine because you get evaluated on the way you approach the problem rather than just the end result.