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forensicbuzz

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It was def bods for me too. the PTSD never goes away...
Def Bods and E-Mag. Had to register for each class 3 times. Wempner and Ung were the worst. The problem with both classes was the same. A 5 question multiple choice quiz each week that were difficult to finish unless you had good Word. One of the downfalls of being a GDI.
 

gtee91

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Def Bods and E-Mag. Had to register for each class 3 times. Wempner and Ung were the worst. The problem with both classes was the same. A 5 question multiple choice quiz each week that were difficult to finish unless you had good Word. One of the downfalls of being a GDI.
When Dr Stanford ran Physics, they had weekly multiple choice tests...but it got worse, if you got the right answer but he did like your method...he would mark it wrong...
 

awbuzz

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Found out they don’t do that in FASET anymore. My daughter was part of a FASET group of all transfers, most of whom were there from the Conditional Transfer Pathway program for kids of alums and other family members and such. While the kids were off doing their thing and all the families were eating lunch they asked if we remembered that and of course we all nodded and they told us they have stopped doing that as it’s a pretty negative message and they want the students to start off feeling like they belong there. It worked for us but times have changed.
Instead of toughening them up... Never mind, best left unsaid...
 

awbuzz

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When Dr Stanford ran Physics, they had weekly multiple choice tests...but it got worse, if you got the right answer but he did like your method...he would mark it wrong...
You had him too! If I recall, no partial credit. If you missed question 1B, then you would miss question 1C and 1D because they were determined in part by your answering of 1B.
 

gtee91

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You had him too! If I recall, no partial credit. If you missed question 1B, then you would miss question 1C and 1D because they were determined in part by your answering of 1B.
There were hard things in EE but the dread of facing those Physics tests when they were just sadistic for no good reason was definitely weed-out games. Of course the modern student apparently doesn't have to deal with this kind of person
 

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There were hard things in EE but the dread of facing those Physics tests when they were just sadistic for no good reason was definitely weed-out games. Of course the modern student apparently doesn't have to deal with this kind of person
I learned more after missing questions on a quiz because I then spent time figuring out why I didn't get it on the quiz. A few of us would talk over the problems and the solutions afterward.
 

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I learned more after missing questions on a quiz because I then spent time figuring out why I didn't get it on the quiz. A few of us would talk over the problems and the solutions afterward.
Stanford was diabolical.

Five question multiple choice tests with no partial credit. Each question had ten to twenty operations, with the wrong answers being the common mistakes one might make in one of the many operations.

His class was designed to fail, which I did the first time I took it. This was right before I dropped out of school.and joined the Marines. Four years later, I took Stanford's EMeg class again in my first quarter back and got an A.
 
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gtee91

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Stanford was diabolical.

Five question multiple choice tests with no partial credit. Each question had ten to twenty operations, with the wrong answers being the common mistakes one might make in one of the many operations.

His class was designed to fail, which I did the first time I took it. This was right before I dropped out of school.and joined the Marines. Four years later, I took Stanford's EMeg class again in my first quarter back and got an A.
I later had Dr Wiley for a class...he did not like Stanford at all...he told us that Stanford hated engineers and so unless you were a Physics major, he made it his mission to fail you. He was a different breed of cat.
 

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Ok, now this is diabolic:

When he was a prof at Stanford Carl Djarassi (the. director of the research that led to birth control pills) asked all of his students to come up with the most difficult question they could think of for their up-coming final exam. He said it was for purposes of making out the test. Of course, each student put together a question that he thought other students couldn't answer; that way their grade would be better since everybody would be in the same boat. On the day of the final Djarrasi handed each student their final exam. It was the question they had put together earlier.

I was tempted to do this myself a couple of times, but was just too damn sneaky.
 

jgtengineer

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Rivers is a tremendous get for us. We still need a lot of help on the defensive line...hopefully those dominoes will be falling soon.

We have a few chances for DL even outside this portal. There are DL on teams with a shot a championship that won't be entering until the spring one.
 
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