I don't know about you guys. But I'm writing a complaint and asking for an investigation into this later today. These sort of things are simply unacceptable and should be stopped, no matter what the subject of the vote is.
No, only the major news outlets did that...
But the real problem we're seeing here is that they might be hunting for their previous result instead of reality.
Get a few people to walk around and monitor students. It's hard to cheat if somebody is looking over your shoulder. That's what they did when we were allowed to use our own laptop on tests.
And the simple fact is, any research is good research. If something doesn't work as expected or not at all it's still useful. Many great discoveries started as a series of accidents or failures. The main importance is that these are well documented and shared so other people don't make the same mistakes..
In a good system the resources are already there, and as far as I know that is pretty much the case in Japan. So the only logical conclusion is: "Philanthropy is a solution to a problem that shouldn't (and in this case doesn't) exist."
Yes, but Americans seem to think that you don't get anything in return for your taxes. Though obviously you need to cut out a lot of the middle management to increase the efficiency. If you have to pay for 5 levels of management you're not going to have much left at the bottom to work with.
And this is why it's fun to live in a European country with public healthcare with excellent coverage and small waiting times. Sure we pay a bit extra in income tax to support it, but it's totally worth it when you get sick.
Cisco VPN -- Supporting your terrorist activities since 19xx! (Can't be bothered to look for the original release date of their first software vpn client)
Actually I am very much talking about legally purchased games. Battlefield 2 for example I have to install with a network drive for some lame reason. Same for Battlefield 1942 for that matter (and that one refuses to start due to the copy protection on certain 64 bit systems, and don't claim it's the graphics card driver cause it really isn't). Same story with loads of other games from big publishers. Additionally requiring an internet connection to play is the most annoying thing ever if you're forced to use a software based VPN. So I am very much talking about legally purchasing games.
Yes, in many of these humanities fields they are very easy to get if you have a big enough wallet to spend time on it. (Contrary to popular believe: it's not cause a university is well known that it's educational standards are high). I'm not going to bother reading his PhD cause I actually need my brain to function in a few minutes so can't fill it up with what is most likely non sense.
And a degree in mathematics doesn't instantly mean you'll pass engineering (even undergraduate level). Here the mathematics work load in engineering is pretty much identical to the one you get in mathematics. The difference is that they leave out the more exotic parts. So yes, that part is covered. A major difference though is the other subjects. If you don't understand these things and don't have the insight you can't hope to pass those classes. Engineering degrees are very much about understanding what's happening and not about slapping a mathematical description on everything. Being able to quantify is indeed an asset, but not the most important one.
You have a textbook? We had a textbook on average for 25% of the courses. Then we had some pile of paper that the professor threw together out of several books or his own writings for another 25% of the courses. Then roughly 30% published crappy incomplete slides online. The rest were "take notes" and they applied the swim or drown principle. The professors have classes almost every hour he works and their assistants are all busy with their research projects. Combine this with the fact that half of what they teach actually revolves around their research you really can't do much more than take notes the moment they say something or write something on the blackboard. Else you automatically fail the class, cause remembering everything from a 2-4 hour lecture is impossible.
Neurology and psychology are two very different things at this side of the Atlantic. And it's not cause you have a degree in mathematics that you're suddenly great at setting up experiments.
It's the trash can degree cause you can learn everything by heart and pass with flying colours. Combined with not having all that much work, think political "science" without having to write much papers; Given these two facts it's rather easy to understand why so many people decide to study psychology. But the job market does saturate, so you have thousands of people finishing their bachelor or master in psychology and then they all apply for the 100 job openings. The rest has to bugger off and find something else to do. That's the textbook definition of a trash can degree. Combined with the fact that you must wonder what else a person with a bachelor or master in psychology could do. You certainly can't put them in R&D or finance. Marketing, probably, but not too much. Management is saturated by people who studied management or other fancy similar degrees where they learned a few books worth of acronyms and how to annoy people with quality management systems. So what you end up with is a professional paper pushing or repetitive work degree. Example: a friend of mine who has a master in psychology now works in a call centre with a near minimum wage. So my words were very much on the mark and I really did mean what I said.
A little social psychology does not equal studying psychology though. Very few cases will a person who studied psychology actually work in that field. For the simple reason that it really is the trash can of higher education and there are too much people doing it.
I really wonder where you studied engineering in this case. If you see very specific methods that are based on the experience of said professor then your book won't help you one bit. You can't expect a student to gather up decades of knowledge and insights into a subject to reconstruct the entire method out of memory after one time. Some of the things in my notes are what I'd qualify as gems. Often a heavily simplified formula that you'll never think off in a normal situation or a rule of thumb. Things that simply aren't in books.
Additionally as many of our professors are also researchers they often tend to include some things of their research into their classes that haven't even been published yet. How do you expect somebody to summarize those from a textbook? That is assuming there is a textbook. You're lucky if you get a stack of slides.
Additionally, if you can get an A without understanding what's being said there's something horribly wrong with the examination and test system that's being employed.
Actually they don't contain all the formulas. There are several methods to solve one problem. Books generally give one very general method that can always be applied. On the other hand, there are often a lot quicker methods that apply to specific groups of problems. Assuming a book can help you in that is rather foolish. It's not cause you know one method to solve something that you can always find the others cause that requires experience that students don't have.
PhDs in psychology aren't hard to get. Actually, psychology is what we commonly call the trash can of higher education. If you want to get a degree and are useless for everything else then you're ready for studying psychology. His methods all sound nice, "don't take notes!". Well, he should go and try that in engineering. Lets see how long he'll last.
And this is why I stopped gaming all together. In the limited free time I do have I like doing something I enjoy. Fighting with locked down software isn't on the "fun" list. I can't name a single new game that works properly on my laptop simply due to the copy protection. I always have to use a networked dvd drive cause the one in my laptop can't deal with all their stupid schemes. I'd rather use my money to light a fireplace than pay for a game like that.
The quality of European magazines has been declining slowly through the years though. For example Elektor went down the swanny about 5 years ago as it's only stupid microcontroller projects these days. And don't get me started on the HAM magazines that all assume pre-made equipment instead of do it yourself like they used to. So yeah, any good suggestions are welcome.
Their numbers can't be correct. Or the US works different from the rest of the world.
Not a single one of my friends who did psychology even got a job offer and spent months trying to find a minimum pay job. Most of them ended up doing simple administrative tasks, essentially ending up as secretary. While every fellow engineering student got job offers before they even graduated...
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I don't know about you guys. But I'm writing a complaint and asking for an investigation into this later today. These sort of things are simply unacceptable and should be stopped, no matter what the subject of the vote is.
No, only the major news outlets did that...
But the real problem we're seeing here is that they might be hunting for their previous result instead of reality.
Get a few people to walk around and monitor students. It's hard to cheat if somebody is looking over your shoulder. That's what they did when we were allowed to use our own laptop on tests.
How does this even relate to funding issues?
And the simple fact is, any research is good research. If something doesn't work as expected or not at all it's still useful. Many great discoveries started as a series of accidents or failures. The main importance is that these are well documented and shared so other people don't make the same mistakes..
In a good system the resources are already there, and as far as I know that is pretty much the case in Japan. So the only logical conclusion is: "Philanthropy is a solution to a problem that shouldn't (and in this case doesn't) exist."
Yes, but Americans seem to think that you don't get anything in return for your taxes. Though obviously you need to cut out a lot of the middle management to increase the efficiency. If you have to pay for 5 levels of management you're not going to have much left at the bottom to work with.
And this is why it's fun to live in a European country with public healthcare with excellent coverage and small waiting times. Sure we pay a bit extra in income tax to support it, but it's totally worth it when you get sick.
Cisco VPN -- Supporting your terrorist activities since 19xx! (Can't be bothered to look for the original release date of their first software vpn client)
Actually I am very much talking about legally purchased games. Battlefield 2 for example I have to install with a network drive for some lame reason. Same for Battlefield 1942 for that matter (and that one refuses to start due to the copy protection on certain 64 bit systems, and don't claim it's the graphics card driver cause it really isn't). Same story with loads of other games from big publishers. Additionally requiring an internet connection to play is the most annoying thing ever if you're forced to use a software based VPN. So I am very much talking about legally purchasing games.
Eve takes more time than I have these days though.
Mirror, mirror on the wall...
Yes, in many of these humanities fields they are very easy to get if you have a big enough wallet to spend time on it. (Contrary to popular believe: it's not cause a university is well known that it's educational standards are high). I'm not going to bother reading his PhD cause I actually need my brain to function in a few minutes so can't fill it up with what is most likely non sense.
And a degree in mathematics doesn't instantly mean you'll pass engineering (even undergraduate level). Here the mathematics work load in engineering is pretty much identical to the one you get in mathematics. The difference is that they leave out the more exotic parts. So yes, that part is covered. A major difference though is the other subjects. If you don't understand these things and don't have the insight you can't hope to pass those classes. Engineering degrees are very much about understanding what's happening and not about slapping a mathematical description on everything. Being able to quantify is indeed an asset, but not the most important one.
You have a textbook? We had a textbook on average for 25% of the courses. Then we had some pile of paper that the professor threw together out of several books or his own writings for another 25% of the courses. Then roughly 30% published crappy incomplete slides online. The rest were "take notes" and they applied the swim or drown principle. The professors have classes almost every hour he works and their assistants are all busy with their research projects. Combine this with the fact that half of what they teach actually revolves around their research you really can't do much more than take notes the moment they say something or write something on the blackboard. Else you automatically fail the class, cause remembering everything from a 2-4 hour lecture is impossible.
Neurology and psychology are two very different things at this side of the Atlantic. And it's not cause you have a degree in mathematics that you're suddenly great at setting up experiments.
It's the trash can degree cause you can learn everything by heart and pass with flying colours. Combined with not having all that much work, think political "science" without having to write much papers; Given these two facts it's rather easy to understand why so many people decide to study psychology. But the job market does saturate, so you have thousands of people finishing their bachelor or master in psychology and then they all apply for the 100 job openings. The rest has to bugger off and find something else to do. That's the textbook definition of a trash can degree. Combined with the fact that you must wonder what else a person with a bachelor or master in psychology could do. You certainly can't put them in R&D or finance. Marketing, probably, but not too much. Management is saturated by people who studied management or other fancy similar degrees where they learned a few books worth of acronyms and how to annoy people with quality management systems. So what you end up with is a professional paper pushing or repetitive work degree. Example: a friend of mine who has a master in psychology now works in a call centre with a near minimum wage. So my words were very much on the mark and I really did mean what I said.
A little social psychology does not equal studying psychology though. Very few cases will a person who studied psychology actually work in that field. For the simple reason that it really is the trash can of higher education and there are too much people doing it.
I really wonder where you studied engineering in this case. If you see very specific methods that are based on the experience of said professor then your book won't help you one bit. You can't expect a student to gather up decades of knowledge and insights into a subject to reconstruct the entire method out of memory after one time. Some of the things in my notes are what I'd qualify as gems. Often a heavily simplified formula that you'll never think off in a normal situation or a rule of thumb. Things that simply aren't in books.
Additionally as many of our professors are also researchers they often tend to include some things of their research into their classes that haven't even been published yet. How do you expect somebody to summarize those from a textbook? That is assuming there is a textbook. You're lucky if you get a stack of slides.
Additionally, if you can get an A without understanding what's being said there's something horribly wrong with the examination and test system that's being employed.
The first part sounds like one giant excuse, but anyway. If you ever do forget something, your notes are there.
Inefficient storage medium.
Actually they don't contain all the formulas. There are several methods to solve one problem. Books generally give one very general method that can always be applied. On the other hand, there are often a lot quicker methods that apply to specific groups of problems. Assuming a book can help you in that is rather foolish. It's not cause you know one method to solve something that you can always find the others cause that requires experience that students don't have.
PhDs in psychology aren't hard to get. Actually, psychology is what we commonly call the trash can of higher education. If you want to get a degree and are useless for everything else then you're ready for studying psychology. His methods all sound nice, "don't take notes!". Well, he should go and try that in engineering. Lets see how long he'll last.
And this is why I stopped gaming all together. In the limited free time I do have I like doing something I enjoy. Fighting with locked down software isn't on the "fun" list. I can't name a single new game that works properly on my laptop simply due to the copy protection. I always have to use a networked dvd drive cause the one in my laptop can't deal with all their stupid schemes. I'd rather use my money to light a fireplace than pay for a game like that.
The quality of European magazines has been declining slowly through the years though. For example Elektor went down the swanny about 5 years ago as it's only stupid microcontroller projects these days. And don't get me started on the HAM magazines that all assume pre-made equipment instead of do it yourself like they used to. So yeah, any good suggestions are welcome.
Their numbers can't be correct. Or the US works different from the rest of the world.
Not a single one of my friends who did psychology even got a job offer and spent months trying to find a minimum pay job. Most of them ended up doing simple administrative tasks, essentially ending up as secretary. While every fellow engineering student got job offers before they even graduated...
Well, at least they don't stack car batteries and a water heater in tin foil...