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847badgerfan

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Re: A Discussion of Calculus, and maybe Physics, and AP classes and college
« Reply #28 on: April 02, 2020, 09:42:29 AM »
Numbers manipulation.
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Re: A Discussion of Calculus, and maybe Physics, and AP classes and college
« Reply #29 on: April 02, 2020, 09:48:32 AM »
There are three kinds of lies ....


attributed to Benjamin Disraeli, BY Mark Twain.
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Re: A Discussion of Calculus, and maybe Physics, and AP classes and college
« Reply #30 on: April 02, 2020, 10:11:10 AM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on April 02, 2020, 09:15:38 AM
A sort of interesting Freudian typo?
HA. 

The thing that was weird was it was just not in any of the supporting material. You had this prof that was like "I'm interested in this, and away we go."

Looking back, I wonder how I would've treated this stuff with a non 18-year-old mind. I was still so close to high school and so interested with "what's on the test?" As a super senior, I tried to audit a class in behavior econ. Well, I took it, and then was told half the grade was a test and paper in the final two weeks of spring. That was dropped quickly. The auditing plan came to an end after the third week of walking up a hill at 7:50 a.m. with Feb. lake wind whipping in my face. 
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Re: A Discussion of Calculus, and maybe Physics, and AP classes and college
« Reply #31 on: April 02, 2020, 10:45:27 AM »
Quote from: bayareabadger on April 02, 2020, 10:11:10 AM
As a super senior, I tried to audit a class in behavior econ. Well, I took it, and then was told half the grade was a test and paper in the final two weeks of spring. That was dropped quickly. The auditing plan came to an end after the third week of walking up a hill at 7:50 a.m. with Feb. lake wind whipping in my face.
Would you say that dropping it was a case of revealed preference? :)
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Re: A Discussion of Calculus, and maybe Physics, and AP classes and college
« Reply #32 on: April 02, 2020, 11:07:10 AM »
Quote from: bwarbiany on April 02, 2020, 10:45:27 AM
Would you say that dropping it was a case of revealed preference? :)
HA, but more just a cost-benefit analysis and preference for not getting an F.

If I told you 50 percent of your grade in a challenging class you didn't need to take would be decided in your final week of college, in the midst of sunny spring when you'd be saying bye to friends, prepping for family to visit and with a student union that sells beer next to a lake ... I guess I did reveal preference. 
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Re: A Discussion of Calculus, and maybe Physics, and AP classes and college
« Reply #33 on: April 02, 2020, 11:25:02 AM »
I remember those walks around that campus, with the wind whipping. All of my class days started at 7:50 AM. Good thing I was mostly done with all of my classes by Noon, so I could go to work.
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bayareabadger

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Re: A Discussion of Calculus, and maybe Physics, and AP classes and college
« Reply #34 on: April 02, 2020, 12:10:27 PM »
Quote from: 847badgerfan on April 02, 2020, 11:25:02 AM
I remember those walks around that campus, with the wind whipping. All of my class days started at 7:50 AM. Good thing I was mostly done with all of my classes by Noon, so I could go to work.
Hmm, I thought you stacked classes so you could work on off days and lived in Chicago? 
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« Reply #35 on: April 02, 2020, 12:21:34 PM »
Quote from: bayareabadger on April 02, 2020, 12:10:27 PM
Hmm, I thought you stacked classes so you could work on off days and lived in Chicago?
I did. My classes were on Tuesdays and Thursdays. On those days I worked for the Wisconsin DNR part-time. I also did an independent study course while working at the DNR, involving Dam failure analyses and such. I got 3 credits for that course, and got paid. Of course they paid for shit, but, it helped.

If Chicago needed me, I'd drive down Tuesday night so I could work Wednesday. That happened about half of the time, even through I did have one Wednesday class along the way. I missed that class quite a bit.

I'd drive down every Thursday night so I could work Friday, the weekend and Monday. That job paid well, and covered my health insurance. The boss was really cool to allow me to do this. I did an independent study course for him too, on rainfall frequency analysis. Got 3 credits for that one too.
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Re: A Discussion of Calculus, and maybe Physics, and AP classes and college
« Reply #36 on: April 02, 2020, 12:50:52 PM »
I tapped out of math after Trig in 11th grade.  In those days,   state law required 3 full years math, not 4, thus I had no interest in calculus. 

I was much more into English Arts and History.  Both offered AP.
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Re: A Discussion of Calculus, and maybe Physics, and AP classes and college
« Reply #37 on: April 02, 2020, 12:53:45 PM »
Illinois required 2 years of math and 2 years of science when I was in HS. Clearly not enough.

I did 3 years of each, then graduated early so I could start college.
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Re: A Discussion of Calculus, and maybe Physics, and AP classes and college
« Reply #38 on: April 02, 2020, 01:50:42 PM »
Quote from: 847badgerfan on April 02, 2020, 12:21:34 PM
I did. My classes were on Tuesdays and Thursdays. On those days I worked for the Wisconsin DNR part-time. I also did an independent study course while working at the DNR, involving Dam failure analyses and such. I got 3 credits for that course, and got paid. Of course they paid for shit, but, it helped.

If Chicago needed me, I'd drive down Tuesday night so I could work Wednesday. That happened about half of the time, even through I did have one Wednesday class along the way. I missed that class quite a bit.

I'd drive down every Thursday night so I could work Friday, the weekend and Monday. That job paid well, and covered my health insurance. The boss was really cool to allow me to do this. I did an independent study course for him too, on rainfall frequency analysis. Got 3 credits for that one too.
So you could cram a full engineering course load into eight hours a week plus independent studies? Call me impressed.
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Re: A Discussion of Calculus, and maybe Physics, and AP classes and college
« Reply #39 on: April 02, 2020, 02:08:43 PM »
I had some really cool professors. They knew my deal and they helped me.

I took a hydrology class and a hydraulic machines (pumps, turbines, etc.) class without ever attending a single lecture. Those met on Mondays and Wednesdays. There were some other classes that my advisor allowed me to take through the UW Extension.
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Re: A Discussion of Calculus, and maybe Physics, and AP classes and college
« Reply #40 on: April 02, 2020, 05:07:45 PM »
I loved calculus and took an extra two quarters of it that I didn't need to as electives, one of which was an obvious "weed out" course. 

Of course I haven't used it since. So today I'd be hard pressed to even solve a simple derivative. 
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Re: A Discussion of Calculus, and maybe Physics, and AP classes and college
« Reply #41 on: April 02, 2020, 05:20:54 PM »
Quote from: Brutus Buckeye on April 02, 2020, 05:07:45 PM
I loved calculus and took an extra two quarters of it that I didn't need to as electives, one of which was an obvious "weed out" course.

Of course I haven't used it since. So today I'd be hard pressed to even solve a simple derivative.
Nah.

Solve the derivative for X^2.
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