Earthquake

[vt_maverick]

ROFL

Reminds me of one of my 'not so bright' moments:

I once told our Director (about 8 levels of management above me) that physics has nothing to do with reality. Yup, you guessed it - he has a Doctorate in physics.

Apparently that's a shared view... when I was at Tech all engineering and computer science students were required to take two semesters of physics. The physics department, whose average graduating class size was (no kidding) 8-10 kids per year, apparently enjoyed giving exams that frustrated their more practically-minded out-of-major students (who composed 95% of their classes). I remember a friend in the aerospace engineering department told me he made an 8 on an exam and still passed after the curve.

Well apparently the engineering department decided it had enough, and although no one knows for sure what happened, one day the college of arts and sciences announced that the physics major was being "withdrawn" for 1-2 years while the department "reorganized." Message sent.

[fuzzy]

Apparently that's a shared view... when I was at Tech all engineering and computer science students were required to take two semesters of physics. The physics department, whose average graduating class size was (no kidding) 8-10 kids per year, apparently enjoyed giving exams that frustrated their more practically-minded out-of-major students (who composed 95% of their classes). I remember a friend in the aerospace engineering department told me he made an 8 on an exam and still passed after the curve.

As an aerospace engineering major from Georgia Tech, I can confirm the exact same thing at Ga Tech. Here's to partial credit and curves (and making sure the curve "anchor" never withdraws from your class)!