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Post by FPEPro on May 9, 2013 10:31:51 GMT -5
Wow, the system over here is very different. If we fail any part of the course, we fail the whole course. Over here it usually depends on the professor. One class grade might be 80% based on the final. Another class might be equal parts based on everything you do in the class from start to finish. That is usually the choice of the professor. They tell you that stuff on the first day. I always would avoid the professors that based everything on one final if I could. And extra credit is pretty common here. Not all professors offer it, but when they did, I always tried to do it just in case I needed it. Chris Sent from my DROID RAZR using proboards
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Post by Wirespeed on May 9, 2013 14:06:50 GMT -5
I had 3 classes this semester who's profs had chosen to make their finals worth 40% of their final grade. One of them even added on the stipulation that if you failed the final (based on his curve), you failed the class no matter how well you did elsewhere. I already know I made an A in one of them, and I'm still waiting on my official grade in the other two, but pretty sure I made, at best, C's because of those finals. One of those classes I even had an A in before I accidentally bombed the final - so that's doubly disappointing.
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Post by juggernaut on May 9, 2013 14:33:50 GMT -5
Sometimes, the professor weighs the final exam so much to actually raise the average. They give you a lot of questions on the first half of the course, hoping that students will get those correct.
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Post by Wirespeed on May 9, 2013 18:15:08 GMT -5
I have yet to see that happen... all of the finals I finals refer to focused on the last part of the course and weren't very cumulative.
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Post by FPEPro on May 9, 2013 18:28:36 GMT -5
I have yet to see that happen... all of the finals I finals refer to focused on the last part of the course and weren't very cumulative. I've actually had classes where we took like 4 mid-terms, including one for the last material covered... Then only a week after the last mid-term had a cumulative final. Makes no sense to me. Chris Sent from my DROID RAZR using proboards
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2013 20:07:32 GMT -5
I have yet to see that happen... all of the finals I finals refer to focused on the last part of the course and weren't very cumulative. I've actually had classes where we took like 4 mid-terms, including one for the last material covered... Then only a week after the last mid-term had a cumulative final. Makes no sense to me. Chris Sent from my DROID RAZR using proboards This is how my Physics I course was. Each test covered everything previously taught in the course. The final was 10 days from the last test and the only difference in the two tests was one question on Simple Harmonic Motion. It's pretty stupid imo.
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Post by juggernaut on May 9, 2013 22:54:27 GMT -5
Let me re-phase: sometimes merciful instructors do that. Some leave the classroom for 10 minutes or let a popular grad asst proctor the exam.
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Post by thursday on May 10, 2013 3:51:41 GMT -5
In first year I handed in the first draft of a lab report. My professor still managed to find nice things to say about my report.
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Post by Wirespeed on May 10, 2013 16:05:33 GMT -5
Holy *bleep*, your prof grades lab reports?! Still, I don't think you could pay any of my profs enough to deal with that. Even the chemistry profs made the TAs do all of that. lol
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Post by thursday on May 10, 2013 16:22:03 GMT -5
Holy *bleep*, your prof grades lab reports?! Still, I don't think you could pay any of my profs enough to deal with that. Even the chemistry profs made the TAs do all of that. lol He even wrote nice things! Said I displayed a deep understanding of the theory I applied. Obviously I'm a natural.
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Post by aelin on May 14, 2013 15:47:50 GMT -5
I am terrified of snakes. In first year when my friends found about it they caused the most embarrassing situation in my life so far. Two guys who were sitting behind me found a huge .gif of terrifying, horrible, scary (...) snake and asked me to turn around. When I saw the snake I shirked so loud that entire classroom turned around to look at me and professor stopped his lecture. The worst thing is I was almost paralyzed and couldn't move or apologize or anything (I had to concentrate on breathing normally)! Looking back it is pretty hilarious and now my friends warn me when there is a snake on TV/photo/magazine
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Post by Sandthief on May 23, 2013 22:51:07 GMT -5
Once I made a homemade Analog to Digital Converter, and by homemade, it was all of it. Using some old GAL chips to a succesive regression registry, a comparator and a resistor based Digital to Analog converter. It worked well on a breadboard, cheers and giggles ensured.
The nightmare started when I tried to make a printed circuit board with it. First, the circuit behaved like it was shorted somewhere, after several hours in the night, I found that I blew one of the GAL chips (those are quite sensitive to electrostatic). After finding the error, and putting in a crude box, I departed to my college (2 hour commute). I tested the circuit at home with the working GAL, and it worked. Anyways, I get to the lab, prepare another GAL for my circuit and went under revision.
Once I plug my circuit, I got the burnt enamel smell, from my power supply transformer, goes like that for a while, then the fuse of my circuit goes off. Checked for possible shorts, nothing. The transformer died on me just in time for the presentation. Luckly, I could make a stand with my previous work, but still, I didn't sleep, and I smelled of solder flux, PCB plastic and defeat.
Not quite a cheerful story, but nonetheless, an interesting one.
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Post by themadscientist on May 31, 2013 16:42:50 GMT -5
Is this exclusive to College? If so, I remember seeing a test being run on a Mainboard removed from the chasis. Needless to say, a hole the size of a human hand was left where the CPU should have been. I can't explain how. If I can include Industry experience in this, I remember witnessing a Supervisor clog 500m of 'underground' diesel lines (used to fuel a back up generator) with the wrong cleaning agent. Needless to say, the Engineering Manager Director had a field day when he found out.
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Post by Wirespeed on Jun 1, 2013 20:24:22 GMT -5
Heh, I can only imagine...
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Post by trotter on Jun 26, 2013 9:41:02 GMT -5
Was working on a turnaround project on a chemical plant in the UK, had the distinct displeasure to watch some idiot contractors cleaning out an ammonia tank for inspection. The tank was first emptied of liquid via the outlet pumps. Prior to entry it was apparently decided to wash out the tank to remove any remaining ammonia liquid that couldn't be sucked out via the usual route. So, the contractor drops a fire hose in an open vent and turns the water on, just as I shout out that that is not the brightest idea ever conceived there is a huge "DONG" noise and the tank sides sucked in slightly.
The point I was about to make to the contractor is that ammonia vapour has an affinity for water and will preferentially 'jump' into the aqueous phase. If there is not sufficient vent space to let air in, the resulting volume drop will decrease the internal pressure to sub-atmospheric and lead to sucking in. Subsequent calculation showed that the open vent had sufficient space to prevent this, but not when the area is decreased significantly by some idiot dropping a fire hose through it...
Luckily, we were able to repair the tank by positively pressuring it using water, but not something i'd like to do again.
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