It's all very nice that everyone now gets to watch lectures on-line for free, but what about the students? If my professors started posting their lectures on-line, I'd be pretty angry. Part of my tuition is for the opportunity to sit in class and listen to these professors give a lecture. So if others are getting this privilege for free, it basically means I'm paying for everyone else in the world to have it.
If professors feel that they're lectures aren't worth paying for, I expect a sharp decrease in the cost of tuition next year. But then again, knowing the school, they'll probably just say "Oh, well while the cost of the lectures dropped, the cost of printing the tests just went up. So really you still owe us more money".
And all thanks to your generous donation of only $0.10 per day for a single month.
For compensation, you will receive pictures of your sponsor child throwing chairs at other children, showing their frustration for M$ by imitating Balmer.
I imagine solving a puzzle involving Time as a variable would be much like l'espirit d'escalier: By the time you figure out a solution, it's too late to implement it unless you can travel back in time 10 minutes. If you try to use your solution now, you're just going to end up making a fool of yourself.
Sorry, I was separating academia from extra-curricular. For what I do outside of the class...
I'm being taught how to design concrete mixes by fourth-year students, for the Concrete Canoe Competition this year. Next fall is when I'm formally introduced to concrete, and won't take an actual concrete design course until fourth-year. I'm the Vice-President External for my school's engineering students' society, and I'm organizing a provincial conference/AGM happening this summer. Plus, I'm a frosh leader, so I spend the week before classes with the incoming freshman, and help them throughout their years as best I can, either academically/socially/emotionally/et cetera. Also, the two firms I've worked for want to hire me full-time as soon as I graduate.
I was simply saying how it sucks to be an engineering student in a classroom, since that's what I'm being graded for, and how I'm going to get my B.Eng.
I am an engineering student. Just wrapping up my second-year in civil engineering. And it's true, it does suck.
Firstly, the professors I have are geniuses. They know all there is to know about their particular field of study. But they know absolutely nothing about teaching. When the professors decide to order a certain text book, the publisher gives them a slide show to accompany the text. The profs now default to teaching straight from these slide show presentations, and do so with as much enthusiasm as us students do. If the prof can't be motivated about the material, it's nearly impossible for us to be motivated. Which turns into if we don't want to be there, neither does the prof. So most of my classes are a black hole of morale.
Secondly, the textbooks are crap. One of my prof has to keep giving out photocopies from a second text book that he has because the one he told us to buy doesn't have the right information in it. Another example, is when I missed a Soil Mechanics lecture. I went over his on-line notes, and noticed he was talking about aquifers. Not know what it was, I looked it up in the textbook using the index, only to find the book only alluded to an aquifer, saying "Aquifers are used to...". No actual mention of what an aquifer is.
Thirdly, assignments are all the same. Every week, for almost every class, we are assigned a half-dozen questions based on the equation we learnt in that lecture. Sadly, it's just learning to rearrange that equation, and not learning how to mix it with other equations learnt.
Lastly, I worked with professional engineers in the past, and would often hear their tales of woe from back when they were in school roughly 20-30 years ago. What they had back then was a challenge. The biggest challenge I have is simply trying to get out of bed for an 8AM lecture. Almost everything is spoon-fed to us these days, mostly because the profs don't want to have to put in an honest effort to teach us.
That's just my take on it. Maybe things will get better in third-year? But I have to run, I'm late for an open-book quiz.
Sure, this sounds like the future to someone who's easily impressed by gimmickry. Like someone else previously said, "Look at what we can do with unlimited resources that we don't have to pay for!". But given current trends such as *decreasing* resources, wouldn't the house of the future be starting more around what the average house can do, but requiring significantly less resources. In other words, having an incredibly small carbon footprint by using "futuristic" technologies, and then expand from there on all sorts of "practical" gimmickry.
Like interest rate, annual fees, and other important things to know?
I'd love to get me one of these. My other "free-money card" has just about reached it's maximum limit, so it's about time I start looking for a new one.
I don't understand why it's so black and white, with people needing to use either texting or e-mailing.
The choice over texting/e-mailing depends on what's going on. Being in university, when I get a new lab partner, the first thing I do is get their e-mail address, add them to MSN, and then block them so it's easy to e-mail each other, but we can't "chat". If they have something to say about any results or the report, they can discuss it in an e-mail. Having an e-mail makes sure I have a record of everything without having to dig through chat logs, and I can easily forward it to another lab partner to keep them in the loop.
However, if I want to get a coffee with a friend who's in class or on their way to campus, I'll send a text to their phone. I'm not going to send an e-mail and wait an hour to see if they still want a coffee.
I have a crippling fear of needles being inserted into my brain. So it looks like I'm going to have to get over my arachnaphobia the old-fashioned way -- a trip to Australia.
Any company that has a drafting department should love it. Just develop a CAD program so you can work on a drawing on an actual "page" that could be displayed at 24"x36".
Also, save the CAD file to a PDF, e-mail it to the client, and he can view the drawing package in full on their table, "Red Line" it/mark it up, save it, and e-mail it back.
Considering a package can run from ten to a hundred drawings, this potentially saves a ton of paper and other resources.
I cannot stress enough that this experiment should be done with your favourite ant, and not your favourite Aunt. I'd hate for an experiment to go wrong just because of a reading error.
If they redefine the kilogram, what happens to coefficients that rely on kilograms? For example, for the equation for Universal Gravitational Energy [G=(coefficient)(m1xm2)/d^2)], is the coefficient going to change?
I much prefer a keyboard/mouse combo. If I'm angry at someone, I'd rather have the relative "slowness" of typing to hinder me from calling them a fucknut, as opposed to thinking it and immediately having it sent to them. Gives me more chance to develop some common sense, calm down, and not make an ass of myself.
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It's all very nice that everyone now gets to watch lectures on-line for free, but what about the students? If my professors started posting their lectures on-line, I'd be pretty angry. Part of my tuition is for the opportunity to sit in class and listen to these professors give a lecture. So if others are getting this privilege for free, it basically means I'm paying for everyone else in the world to have it.
If professors feel that they're lectures aren't worth paying for, I expect a sharp decrease in the cost of tuition next year. But then again, knowing the school, they'll probably just say "Oh, well while the cost of the lectures dropped, the cost of printing the tests just went up. So really you still owe us more money".
And all thanks to your generous donation of only $0.10 per day for a single month.
For compensation, you will receive pictures of your sponsor child throwing chairs at other children, showing their frustration for M$ by imitating Balmer.
I imagine solving a puzzle involving Time as a variable would be much like l'espirit d'escalier: By the time you figure out a solution, it's too late to implement it unless you can travel back in time 10 minutes. If you try to use your solution now, you're just going to end up making a fool of yourself.
IANAM(Meteorologist), but why do they need UAVs? Couldn't they just rig up a series of regular weather balloons?
Crystalized dihydrogen oxide?
Sorry, I was separating academia from extra-curricular. For what I do outside of the class...
I'm being taught how to design concrete mixes by fourth-year students, for the Concrete Canoe Competition this year. Next fall is when I'm formally introduced to concrete, and won't take an actual concrete design course until fourth-year. I'm the Vice-President External for my school's engineering students' society, and I'm organizing a provincial conference/AGM happening this summer. Plus, I'm a frosh leader, so I spend the week before classes with the incoming freshman, and help them throughout their years as best I can, either academically/socially/emotionally/et cetera. Also, the two firms I've worked for want to hire me full-time as soon as I graduate.
I was simply saying how it sucks to be an engineering student in a classroom, since that's what I'm being graded for, and how I'm going to get my B.Eng.
I am an engineering student. Just wrapping up my second-year in civil engineering. And it's true, it does suck.
Firstly, the professors I have are geniuses. They know all there is to know about their particular field of study. But they know absolutely nothing about teaching. When the professors decide to order a certain text book, the publisher gives them a slide show to accompany the text. The profs now default to teaching straight from these slide show presentations, and do so with as much enthusiasm as us students do. If the prof can't be motivated about the material, it's nearly impossible for us to be motivated. Which turns into if we don't want to be there, neither does the prof. So most of my classes are a black hole of morale.
Secondly, the textbooks are crap. One of my prof has to keep giving out photocopies from a second text book that he has because the one he told us to buy doesn't have the right information in it. Another example, is when I missed a Soil Mechanics lecture. I went over his on-line notes, and noticed he was talking about aquifers. Not know what it was, I looked it up in the textbook using the index, only to find the book only alluded to an aquifer, saying "Aquifers are used to...". No actual mention of what an aquifer is.
Thirdly, assignments are all the same. Every week, for almost every class, we are assigned a half-dozen questions based on the equation we learnt in that lecture. Sadly, it's just learning to rearrange that equation, and not learning how to mix it with other equations learnt.
Lastly, I worked with professional engineers in the past, and would often hear their tales of woe from back when they were in school roughly 20-30 years ago. What they had back then was a challenge. The biggest challenge I have is simply trying to get out of bed for an 8AM lecture. Almost everything is spoon-fed to us these days, mostly because the profs don't want to have to put in an honest effort to teach us.
That's just my take on it. Maybe things will get better in third-year? But I have to run, I'm late for an open-book quiz.
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I wonder which one gets to form the head?
Sure, this sounds like the future to someone who's easily impressed by gimmickry. Like someone else previously said, "Look at what we can do with unlimited resources that we don't have to pay for!". But given current trends such as *decreasing* resources, wouldn't the house of the future be starting more around what the average house can do, but requiring significantly less resources. In other words, having an incredibly small carbon footprint by using "futuristic" technologies, and then expand from there on all sorts of "practical" gimmickry.
I'm pretty sure Rock beat Paper in the Space Race long before this.
Oh, the irony.
Like interest rate, annual fees, and other important things to know?
I'd love to get me one of these. My other "free-money card" has just about reached it's maximum limit, so it's about time I start looking for a new one.
I seem to recall an incident early this year regarding a CA facility selling fruit/vegetable drinks contaminated with the E. Coli virus.
Looks like instead of bringing their facilities up to code, they just re-vamped production purposes.
1)Download lots of porn
2)Download handful of songs
3)Wait for RIAA
4)File a counter-suit
5)PROFIT!!!
So this is why Apple isn't bothering to challenge M$ at video game consoles.
I don't understand why it's so black and white, with people needing to use either texting or e-mailing.
The choice over texting/e-mailing depends on what's going on. Being in university, when I get a new lab partner, the first thing I do is get their e-mail address, add them to MSN, and then block them so it's easy to e-mail each other, but we can't "chat". If they have something to say about any results or the report, they can discuss it in an e-mail. Having an e-mail makes sure I have a record of everything without having to dig through chat logs, and I can easily forward it to another lab partner to keep them in the loop.
However, if I want to get a coffee with a friend who's in class or on their way to campus, I'll send a text to their phone. I'm not going to send an e-mail and wait an hour to see if they still want a coffee.
I have a crippling fear of needles being inserted into my brain. So it looks like I'm going to have to get over my arachnaphobia the old-fashioned way -- a trip to Australia.
Any company that has a drafting department should love it. Just develop a CAD program so you can work on a drawing on an actual "page" that could be displayed at 24"x36".
Also, save the CAD file to a PDF, e-mail it to the client, and he can view the drawing package in full on their table, "Red Line" it/mark it up, save it, and e-mail it back.
Considering a package can run from ten to a hundred drawings, this potentially saves a ton of paper and other resources.
I cannot stress enough that this experiment should be done with your favourite ant, and not your favourite Aunt. I'd hate for an experiment to go wrong just because of a reading error.
"O woe is the US! O woe is M$!"
This should be good for Canada. More potential jobs is good, and the more of our own educated programmers staying in the country, the better.
So does this mean that there's no chance of Pastafarianism being taught in UK either?
Actually, this makes me think it may be a good time to finally sell the original cards I have.
If they redefine the kilogram, what happens to coefficients that rely on kilograms? For example, for the equation for Universal Gravitational Energy [G=(coefficient)(m1xm2)/d^2)], is the coefficient going to change?
I much prefer a keyboard/mouse combo. If I'm angry at someone, I'd rather have the relative "slowness" of typing to hinder me from calling them a fucknut, as opposed to thinking it and immediately having it sent to them. Gives me more chance to develop some common sense, calm down, and not make an ass of myself.