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Re: Standardized tests (was: Yummy!)
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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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| (...) 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 (...) (24 years ago, 7-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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11 Messages in This Thread: ![Yummy! -Shiri Dori (6-May-00 to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.general)](/news/x.gif) ![](/news/46.gif) ![Standardized tests (was: Yummy!) -Christopher L. Weeks (7-May-00 to lugnet.off-topic.debate)](/news/x.gif) ![](/news/246.gif) ![Re: Standardized tests (was: Yummy!) -Kevin Wilson (7-May-00 to lugnet.off-topic.debate)](/news/x.gif) ![](/news/46.gif) ![Re: Standardized tests (was: Yummy!) -Christopher L. Weeks (7-May-00 to lugnet.off-topic.debate)](/news/x.gif)
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