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Wasted

November 26th, 2006

I swear, the longer I’m in engineering school, the funnier and funnier Wasted Talent becomes. For a synopsis of the last three months, see Angela Melick’s life of a second-year mech, part 1 and part 2.

My next-door neighbour has these taped to her door.

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Discussion

  1. That’s unfortunate Mike. Us Math slackers just had to stay better than half of our classmates. The grade didn’t matter since our profs liked playing with bell curves. Strive for above average!

    Posted at 10:53 am on November 26th by Cam Turner.

  2. Well, in some ways grades matter even less in engineering; the knowledge is practical, so it’s more important to be internalizing the concepts than memorizing five years worth of past-finals. Besideswhich, most people in eng aren’t aiming for grad school… a nice side effect of taking a murderously difficult programme for five years is that you can be completely done afterwards.

    But yeah, we have that one scary ECE prof who failed 80% of the class on his midterm, and is philosophically opposed to bell-curves.

    Posted at 12:45 pm on November 26th by Mike Purvis.

  3. Grades don’t matter?

    Easy for you to say.

    Posted at 6:35 pm on November 27th by Christine.

  4. As with anything, there are always exceptions.

    Posted at 8:50 pm on November 27th by Mike Purvis.

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