why do you need to?Jay wrote:
How would you determine whether someone read the material or not if you didn't test them in some way?Miggle wrote:
how do you figure?Jay wrote:
I understand that it's necessary to test people on the things they've read,
In order to give people grades? To make sure your time as the professor isn't wasted? I dunno, why do they give tests in any subject?Miggle wrote:
why do you need to?Jay wrote:
How would you determine whether someone read the material or not if you didn't test them in some way?Miggle wrote:
how do you figure?
well why do you need to give people grades?Jay wrote:
In order to give people grades? To make sure your time as the professor isn't wasted? I dunno, why do they give tests in any subject?Miggle wrote:
why do you need to?Jay wrote:
How would you determine whether someone read the material or not if you didn't test them in some way?
I dunno. Why do you need to breathe?Miggle wrote:
well why do you need to give people grades?Jay wrote:
In order to give people grades? To make sure your time as the professor isn't wasted? I dunno, why do they give tests in any subject?Miggle wrote:
why do you need to?
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They acted on my B.Eng thesis http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/mechatronicsinmedicine and my MSc thesis was industry funded and went straight into use so I'm guessing yes.Uzique wrote:
Oh and furthermore, would anyone have acted on anything you did for your theoretical science PhD?
Keep guessing.I'm guessing the answer is 'no'.
Do you not understand what an anthology is?Superior Mind wrote:
Yeah, most English or lit classes deal with works of literature (prose, poem, drama, etc.), not textbooks.
It's sort of the professor's job to be the textbook.
Well I disliked Maths in school because every lesson we just got this dumb textbook out and did exercises for 2 hours. It was dumb, and easy. So unimaginative. Doing the same thing over and over for 30 minutes at a time. Getting it marked. Tick tick tick. Stupid stupid stupid. Maths in school was so dumb. I can't believe anyone would take that at college. It must just be working from textbooks all the time with the answers supplied in the back and revising and doing repetitive exercises over and over for exams. Dumb dumb dumb. Oh and not to mention all the pop-philosophy. Sheesh. Why would I want to do that at college when I can just use a calculator?Jay wrote:
I am talking about high school for the most part Uzique. We didn't have nearly enough time in a single semester in college to delve into stuff like that. College was mostly: read this, come to class with an opinion on the work, discuss the work. I liked that. High school is what turned me off and made me so adamantly opposed.
I highly doubt that was theoretical science in the proper sense that you did, then.Dilbert_X wrote:
They acted on my B.Eng thesis http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/mechatronicsinmedicine and my MSc thesis was industry funded and went straight into use so I'm guessing yes.Uzique wrote:
Oh and furthermore, would anyone have acted on anything you did for your theoretical science PhD?Keep guessing.I'm guessing the answer is 'no'.
Oh, yeah.Jay wrote:
Do you not understand what an anthology is?Superior Mind wrote:
Yeah, most English or lit classes deal with works of literature (prose, poem, drama, etc.), not textbooks.
It's sort of the professor's job to be the textbook.
So were you even doing a PhD in theoretical physics? Doesn't sound like it. Engineering thesis leading to work in industry. Doesn't sound like you're even talking about the same sort of academic funding as we're talking about. Physics and Maths PhD students don't get 'funded' by industry or workplace. They get funded by the central academic funding body. Which is what I was curious about... because I didn't think you got offered funding by them. Turns out you're talking about Engineering and thus have been completely missing the point of our discussion about academia altogether. Research in abstract/theoretical sciences is just as esoteric and unhelpful to everyday society as humanities research, believe me.Dilbert_X wrote:
They acted on my B.Eng thesis http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/mechatronicsinmedicine and my MSc thesis was industry funded and went straight into use so I'm guessing yes.Uzique wrote:
Oh and furthermore, would anyone have acted on anything you did for your theoretical science PhD?Keep guessing.I'm guessing the answer is 'no'.
I know right. Yet again here we are... 3 pages later and ding ding ding! Dilbert isn't even in the same discussion as us. Just using the opportunity to have the usual whine at students that don't take Engineering degrees.Spark wrote:
I highly doubt that was theoretical science in the proper sense that you did, then.Dilbert_X wrote:
They acted on my B.Eng thesis http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/mechatronicsinmedicine and my MSc thesis was industry funded and went straight into use so I'm guessing yes.Uzique wrote:
Oh and furthermore, would anyone have acted on anything you did for your theoretical science PhD?Keep guessing.I'm guessing the answer is 'no'.
I know you're mocking me, but I hated math in high school for the same reasons. I didn't see the point.Uzique wrote:
Well I disliked Maths in school because every lesson we just got this dumb textbook out and did exercises for 2 hours. It was dumb, and easy. So unimaginative. Doing the same thing over and over for 30 minutes at a time. Getting it marked. Tick tick tick. Stupid stupid stupid. Maths in school was so dumb. I can't believe anyone would take that at college. It must just be working from textbooks all the time with the answers supplied in the back and revising and doing repetitive exercises over and over for exams. Dumb dumb dumb. Oh and not to mention all the pop-philosophy. Sheesh. Why would I want to do that at college when I can just use a calculator?Jay wrote:
I am talking about high school for the most part Uzique. We didn't have nearly enough time in a single semester in college to delve into stuff like that. College was mostly: read this, come to class with an opinion on the work, discuss the work. I liked that. High school is what turned me off and made me so adamantly opposed.
... See what your reasoning is like? Raising an eyebrow at English departments at proper academic institutions because of your experience of high-school English? Really? That's like me saying all those Maths guys at MIT are dumb, devoting 4 years of their lives to learning some bullshit by rote from a textbook.
