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"whiskeybusiness NOW A DANGER TO CROWDS NEAR YOU" (whiskey-business) 10/22/2015 at 12:38 • Filed to: None

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This is why engineering is hard. Not because the concepts are not understandable. Not because the math is overly difficult. None of these things.

Maybe this is the case with my program only, but it is the professors that make it difficult to succeed in engineering classes. They are, in very large part, steaming horseshite. While taking an exam today in thermodynamics, I went up to the prof to clarify a point that was unclear in the wording. She proceeded to tell me the value, which I had looked up on the provided tables, was incorrect, and that she would help when I got that part correct. I sat back down, double and triple checked my number, and it was beyond a shadow of a doubt correct. I brought the exam, tables, and my calculations up to her to ask her to verify them.

This time they were correct. Even though I hadn’t changed a number.

Have a car that is angrier than me right now.

TL;DR: My professor told me that a correct answer on an exam was incorrect, despite being correct. And despite that not being what I was asking about.

smobgirl > whiskeybusiness NOW A DANGER TO CROWDS NEAR YOU 10/22/2015 at 12:49

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Sounds like dealing with higher-ups at work.

whiskeybusiness NOW A DANGER TO CROWDS NEAR YOU > smobgirl 10/22/2015 at 12:51

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So it never ends?

CalzoneGolem > smobgirl 10/22/2015 at 12:53

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SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie > whiskeybusiness NOW A DANGER TO CROWDS NEAR YOU 10/22/2015 at 12:53

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Nope. Work for yourself. Idiots abound.

Chariotoflove > whiskeybusiness NOW A DANGER TO CROWDS NEAR YOU 10/22/2015 at 12:59

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As a professor, I have to say that professors are humans and make mistakes like everyone else. This sin is not in making a mistake. It is when we get too proud to see the mistake and admit to it. A really good professor can often use his mistake as a teaching moment for both him and his students so that everyone can learn something.

Azrek > whiskeybusiness NOW A DANGER TO CROWDS NEAR YOU 10/22/2015 at 13:02

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It is a quote I heard before...”You have to play, but you cannot win.”

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > whiskeybusiness NOW A DANGER TO CROWDS NEAR YOU 10/22/2015 at 13:02

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Never, ever ends

itschrome > whiskeybusiness NOW A DANGER TO CROWDS NEAR YOU 10/22/2015 at 13:04

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it actually get worse..

Future next gen S2000 owner > whiskeybusiness NOW A DANGER TO CROWDS NEAR YOU 10/22/2015 at 13:05

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Welcome to being an employed engineer with an idiot boss!

whiskeybusiness NOW A DANGER TO CROWDS NEAR YOU > itschrome 10/22/2015 at 13:29

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Great. . .

whiskeybusiness NOW A DANGER TO CROWDS NEAR YOU > Azrek 10/22/2015 at 13:30

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Never have more true words been spoken.

whiskeybusiness NOW A DANGER TO CROWDS NEAR YOU > Chariotoflove 10/22/2015 at 13:31

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I understand mistakes, but telling a student to change a correct answer that you have the answer key to is pretty egregious. That’s not a mistake, that’s just laziness, and that is a sin.

Aaron M - MasoFiST > whiskeybusiness NOW A DANGER TO CROWDS NEAR YOU 10/22/2015 at 13:31

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The professors in both my undergrad and grad programs were great, excepting our fluid mechanics professor who was quietly removed from teaching the year after (tenure or not, he was pushing 80 and could barely follow his own train of thought). However, it was working with other engineers that pushed me into economic research. Same pay, fewer hours, no engineers as coworkers.

whiskeybusiness NOW A DANGER TO CROWDS NEAR YOU > Aaron M - MasoFiST 10/22/2015 at 13:32

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Interesting. Perhaps the engineering programs you attended were of higher quality. I wouldn’t wish this upon anyone.

whiskeybusiness NOW A DANGER TO CROWDS NEAR YOU > SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie 10/22/2015 at 13:33

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I hope that I can one day.

Aaron M - MasoFiST > whiskeybusiness NOW A DANGER TO CROWDS NEAR YOU 10/22/2015 at 13:33

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Perhaps. I got both my degrees at Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh.

whiskeybusiness NOW A DANGER TO CROWDS NEAR YOU > Aaron M - MasoFiST 10/22/2015 at 13:33

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That’ll do it

Santiago of Escuderia Boricua > whiskeybusiness NOW A DANGER TO CROWDS NEAR YOU 10/22/2015 at 13:47

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Basically this

Chariotoflove > whiskeybusiness NOW A DANGER TO CROWDS NEAR YOU 10/22/2015 at 14:04

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Well, it certainly costs one hard-won credibility with the students, and that is hard to get back once lost, as your post demonstrates. That’s bad for everyone.

Delta Five Nine > whiskeybusiness NOW A DANGER TO CROWDS NEAR YOU 10/22/2015 at 16:35

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I’m just sitting here wondering why she would tell you that the number was wrong to begin with. More likely to just tell you that you should know what the wording means than critique any work in my experience.

whiskeybusiness NOW A DANGER TO CROWDS NEAR YOU > Delta Five Nine 10/22/2015 at 16:36

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She just looked at my paper, pointed at my value, and said it was incorrect.