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Re: Standardized tests (was: Yummy!)
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Mon, 8 May 2000 00:21:30 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Kevin Wilson writes:
Partial differential equations were my downfall...

Meee tooooo!

And thank goodness, I say.

For if I had been able to figure out how to use those in reaction rate and heat
transfer problems I would have gotten my Chemical Engineering degree instead of
flagging P-Chem and taking up computers instead.

That fortutitous failure has added .3M USD to my income, so far, I'd estimate,
and the spread is accelerating.

++Lar



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  Re: Standardized tests (was: Yummy!)
 
(...) Ditto. Of course, the trouble with having exams etc come easy (relatively), is that at some point one reaches a subject or chunk of knowledge which requires you to WORK to understand it... andfor me at least, I'd never learned to. Took me (...) (25 years ago, 7-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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