^he has clearly stated several times that he did do it back then, but has forgotten a lot of it.

1/13/2010 10:59:32 AM

how? i remember shit from HS and i'm older than he

1/13/2010 11:00:30 AM

i guess he's not you

1/13/2010 11:01:02 AM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Function_(mathematics)

Read this.

You need a stronger grasp of what a function is.

1/13/2010 11:05:09 AM

I remember a lot of shit, I've forgotten a lot of shit.

Mostly I remember stuff I've had to use on occasion and forgotten shit that I didn't find useful or can be easily referenced; who was president in 1840 or stuff that will never be relevant to anyone unless they are a tour guide like just about everything regarding the lost colony.

1/13/2010 11:05:09 AM

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"I can see why you'd say that, but writing a 15 page paper on the Brechtian effects of Soviet-style montage in postmodern horror is a bit more difficult than you'd imagine."

And yet somehow exactly as useful as you'd imagine.

1/13/2010 11:06:50 AM

Yeah, it's not a matter of not understanding it or grasping the material, it's just that I haven't used any of that in so long. Over a decade for Algebra and Trig stuff, about 8 or 9 years for Pre-Calc.

I'm just re-reading the prep chapter in this Calc textbook, and I found some great lessons on http://www.khanacademy.org/

I figure if I give myself a crash course in trig and pre-calc I'll be good for the semester.

Also I'll be sending McDanger an extraordinary amount of PMs.

1/13/2010 11:10:16 AM

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"And yet somehow exactly as useful as you'd imagine."

Yeah man... a critical analysis of aspects of one of the most important forms of communication in our lifetime is totally useless. Quantitative fields 4 life.

1/13/2010 11:11:55 AM

I think you'll probably be fine in MA141. It's a pretty easy class. Once you brush up on a few things and stay a chapter ahead of the class when studying it'll be a walk.

1/13/2010 11:13:05 AM

it's 241 that sucks, stupid series.... really useless stuff at first.

1/13/2010 11:15:16 AM

Martin Van Buren.

1/13/2010 11:16:14 AM

I flunked 241 the first time after getting an A in 141. Of course I flunked 4 out of 5 classes that semester (I had some issues that semester) and then smoked it the following semester.

1/13/2010 11:17:10 AM

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"Yeah man... a critical analysis of aspects of one of the most important forms of communication in our lifetime is totally useless. Quantitative fields 4 life."

Please explain to me the usefulness of an in-depth understanding of the Soviet-style montage in postmodern horror.

1/13/2010 11:41:54 AM

someone make an IN SOVIET RUSSIA joke, quickly

1/13/2010 11:46:08 AM

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"Please explain to me the usefulness of an in-depth understanding of the Soviet-style montage in postmodern horror."

Stein: halt and exit

1/13/2010 11:48:53 AM

Look man, I just want to know if there's some deeper meaning I'm missing out on when I watch the Saw movies.

1/13/2010 11:51:23 AM

Well, maybe if you bothered to take a few film classes you'd know.

1/13/2010 11:54:06 AM

I did.

Now I did sleep through them, but I still totally had some! We never discussed montages in postmodern horror though and let me tell you, Saw either 3 or 4 has this kickin rad one.

1/13/2010 11:57:35 AM

In Soviet montage, training does you!

1/13/2010 12:00:19 PM

oh boy somebody else pulling out boiler plate burns for the humanities again

this isn't exhausting at all

1/13/2010 12:07:12 PM

This is humanities on humanities crime. I'm just jealous that there are degrees out there more worthless than my own.

1/13/2010 12:10:14 PM

weren't you a CS kid

1/13/2010 12:10:56 PM

No sir, Communication Media.

CompSci said they weren't the right department for my interests in web development, so they sent me to Communication.

1/13/2010 12:14:02 PM

Well, at least that means your classes probably smelled more like vagina and Eternity for women than stale sweat and chili dog farts.

1/13/2010 12:16:58 PM

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"Look man, I just want to know if there's some deeper meaning I'm missing out on when I watch the Saw movies."

I bet you think art critics are useless also, don't you?

1/13/2010 12:53:30 PM

what critics?

1/13/2010 12:55:04 PM

you people

1/13/2010 12:55:29 PM

I'm sure you'll be up to speed in no time once you delve into it. After I graduated, I was thinking about learning as many programming languages as possible to put on my resume, but I got a job that taught me how to code. It's funny just how quickly you pick things up, when it is necessary, so that you will meet your deadlines. A traditional classroom setting would probably be too slow for me nowadays. For me, it isn't realistic anymore to take an entire semester to deliver comprehensive results when revenue is on the line.

[Edited on January 13, 2010 at 1:47 PM. Reason : -]

1/13/2010 1:40:26 PM

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"I bet you think art critics are useless also, don't you?"

Yes because art is opinion based. No need for a critic to tell me what is good and not good in the world of art.

Do you need a music critic to tell you what music is good and bad to? I couldn't imagine making those decisions on my own. So hard for me to tell what i like and don't like. What would happen if someone didn't tell me what was good and not. The world would probably end. Thanks god for art critics.

[Edited on January 13, 2010 at 2:06 PM. Reason : `]

1/13/2010 2:04:26 PM

Quote :

"Yes because art is opinion based. No need for a critic to tell me what is good and not good in the world of art. Do you need a music critic to tell you what music is good and bad to? I couldn't imagine making those decisions on my own. So hard for me to tell what i like and don't like. What would happen if someone didn't tell me what was good and not. The world would probably end. Thanks god for art critics."

Yes, but what makes a Picasso a great work of art? What makes Citizen Kane a great film?

1/13/2010 3:17:08 PM

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"what makes a Picasso a great work of art?"

nothing, in my opinion

[Edited on January 13, 2010 at 3:18 PM. Reason : you see how that works?]

1/13/2010 3:18:23 PM

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"Yes, but what makes a Picasso a great work of art? What makes Citizen Kane a great film?"

Nothing i think both are boring and not artistic. I'm glad some critic gets to do your thinking for you.

1/13/2010 3:19:18 PM

Well, at least you openly admit you have no appreciation of art or film. That's a start.

1/13/2010 3:20:58 PM

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"Well, at least you openly admit you have no appreciation of art or film. That's a start."

At least you openly admit you can't think for yourself.

1/13/2010 3:26:41 PM

If you can't understand how Citizen Kane is a culturally significant and revolutionary film, there's no helping you.

1/13/2010 3:46:27 PM

he probably doesn't know their history, which would make him incapable of understanding

as for picasso, well you can't get that, you lack a fundamental human quality and you should be sterilized

you don't have to like it to recognize it

[Edited on January 13, 2010 at 3:55 PM. Reason : s]

1/13/2010 3:53:55 PM

You should be sterilized.

1/13/2010 4:16:22 PM

I'll tutor you for $20/hr

1/13/2010 4:20:15 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIi0vFyqWAc

1/13/2010 7:10:23 PM

fuckin and screwin bitches and hoes

1/13/2010 7:13:46 PM

SHIT, I missed a question on the WebAssign tutorial

1/14/2010 1:40:12 PM

lol at this thread. MA141 was a joke.

1/14/2010 4:18:17 PM

The best part is God bragging about how well he did in fifth grade math.

Quote :

"This is all ironic since I took Pre-Algebra in 6th grade."

1/14/2010 4:28:45 PM

Unrelatedly, my MA141 professor wore the same thing every day of the semester.

I dunno if he had a bunch of the same clothes or just wore the same set over and over.

1/14/2010 4:31:16 PM

FOIL is for those who don't/can't develop a deeper/logical understanding of basic algebra.

It is all a matter of logic and seeing patterns. Memorizing formulas and mnemonics are for those who just want to pass. Unfortunately, a big chunk of the educators' community furthers such techniques.

1/14/2010 6:21:36 PM

It's nice to do it in a standard way because it makes it easier to spot peoples mistakes (I would assume grading as well).


Feel free to continue to rant.

1/14/2010 6:25:15 PM

I took this class a few years ago my freshman year. The highest math I took in high school was algebra III/Trig so I had no fucking idea what I was getting myself into. My advice to you is to gtfo if you are not an engineering major. I thought I wanted to do engineering and took this class when my major was First Year College. Later I decided to do Biology and would only have needed to take MA121. OOps.

With regards to this class and having no experience in high school with calculus, this class sucks so much monkey dick. If shit could shit it would be the product of this class. Maybe it is just because I had a professor who did not speak a word while he just mindlessly wrote equations on the board. Needless to say it was one of the handful of C's I got while attending NCSU along with its predesesor (sp?) MA242. Fuck calculus I hope it dies a painful death

1/14/2010 6:58:12 PM

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"Fuck calculus I hope it dies a painful death"

Well you will have to invent a time machine to go back 400 years to kill Newton and Leibniz (as well as all mathematicians and scientists since them).

But, without calculus, we won't have the technologies we have today, so that means no time machine for you.

1/14/2010 7:22:10 PM

wait did you just suggest a predestination paradox

1/14/2010 9:27:04 PM

yes i did

1/14/2010 9:48:42 PM