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Post by NoNamePerson on Aug 6, 2024 20:42:10 GMT -5
And this, ladies and gentlemen, is EXACTLY why I hated algebra. I'd never have problems like this outside of school, so why worry about them? And on top of that I can’t cook either.
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Post by toomuchreality on Aug 6, 2024 22:20:00 GMT -5
And this, ladies and gentlemen, is EXACTLY why I hated algebra. I'd never have problems like this outside of school, so why worry about them? Exactly! And that's why I didn't become a number cruncher.
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Post by Opti on Aug 7, 2024 5:34:03 GMT -5
And this, ladies and gentlemen, is EXACTLY why I hated algebra. I'd never have problems like this outside of school, so why worry about them? Well while that fake math problem is nonsensical, at college while studying engineering, it felt at times like your professors required the impossible during exams. And I know I wasn't the only one, based on what I would find inscribed on parts of the then wooden desks in the big lecture halls. I don't know if I ever wrote down my favorite one although I certainly saw it several times in various places. But my favorite went something like this. Underneath your desk you will find a simulated small Earth. You have 1 hour to solve world hunger and world peace. Begin And if you think about it, this is close to what story lines on Star Trek are for planets that are not Earth.
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Post by Opti on Aug 7, 2024 5:59:25 GMT -5
I may have told a version of this story in the past, so if I have please feel free to ignore. Or at least forgive me as it remains the most stunning word problem ever in my college years. I was still an undergraduate student at the time and several of us had banded together to do a study group because Prof Mowle and the required class on elctromagnetism and waves was and seemed almost impossible to pass. It had a reputation and it was deserved. I think the professor must have had a tight relationship with Aeronatical engineering, home of many famous people who were in the US space program. But I digress slightly. Picture it, Tarkkington Hall one night as we sat at a table near the late night grill. This residence hall housed our college's athletes so it was open pretty late and large athletic specimens of maleness apeared regularly. Think the basketball and football team athletes not living off campus. It was overwhelming to me as a 5'6" woman being sometimes surround by men 6'5" and taller or by those who easily outweighed me by two to three times and were more muscular than average. Set off tons of internal alarms as a woman, but I tried to remain calm surrounded by my male engineering colleagues which included ML (boy genius) and at least two other people possibly one was my longtime friend B. B is 6'1" but perhaps 135lbs. dripping wet. Boy genius is probably about 5'8" or so, so not much bigger than me. They would notice if we temporarily got a forest of athletes flanking two sides of our table, but in general seemed like they did not even notice. I think boy genius and another person in our group actually lived there. Anyway, to the story problem. I wish I could draw it because I'm not even sure we were given equations or not, but just a basic setup. There are two maybe three astronauts standing on a surface. Where can they safely walk? Prove it and show your work. Today, I think I should have just done it from a humor perspective as even boy genius was stumped. The visual confused me. Were these astronauts just on a floating very small surface (not flat) or was it just a rendering of a partial surface of perhaps a planet we could not fully, see? I know when we finished that night, that Q was never answered. We all had our opinions, but frankly I've seen numerous Star Trek episodes that match that visual! Of course, in Star Trek they are usually in special environmental suits and the surface is RL or a representation in metaphorical space. Episodes on that too. Today's self would have colored the men with sharpie markers and given them red, blue, or gold shirts for command. Based on that I would have come up with a story on how the red shirt would do something and fly off into space (die) thus allowing the remaining blue shirt (and possibly gold shirt) to figure out what to do so they survived until the next word problem, The stick figure closest to the edge was obviously a red shirt. TY, I'm here all week.
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Post by Opti on Aug 7, 2024 6:24:11 GMT -5
This is obviously a bad word problem so no wonder it cannot be solved. First two mph is slow on a river so at best you are on an inner tube or just hanging out. I think it needs to be turned into a raft trip problem. You are going down the New river headed for a class 5 rapids. Your raft hits a tire in the river and your guide pops out leaving the big oar unmanned.
Before solving the basics, how many pancakes should the rafting company now make for breakfast given the guide in no longer in your raft?
Extra Credit - How many pancakes will you choose to eat and why? Did you and your rafting buddies choose to save your guide or let him/her float downstream with their feet in front of them? How do you defend your pancake request at the fire/cookout? Show your work remembering this is only the first leg of today's raft trip.
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Post by NoNamePerson on Aug 11, 2024 9:17:48 GMT -5
For all the gainfully employed.
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Post by Opti on Aug 11, 2024 21:34:15 GMT -5
Actually if you aren't the head of the household and your bedroom is set up for them you could blame the furniture and the head of the household. And the person who did your home ... I live alone, I obviously have things that need to relocate ... wanders out of thread.
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Post by toomuchreality on Aug 11, 2024 22:46:11 GMT -5
Doctor: Did you take those pills I gave you last month? Me: The package said "Take on an empty stomach" so, not yet.
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Post by Opti on Aug 13, 2024 9:59:44 GMT -5
Test image, will relocate later
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Post by Opti on Aug 13, 2024 11:10:16 GMT -5
NNP, I kind of wanted to put a big mouth on the BMW 3 series. I was thinking Chinese Dragon or Shark.
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Post by busymom on Aug 13, 2024 15:20:01 GMT -5
School begins this week in FL. Here, the public schools don't open until after Labor Day. "Walk slowly, REALLY slowly."
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Post by Opti on Aug 14, 2024 21:00:55 GMT -5
Unless of course you are a bird.
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Post by busymom on Aug 16, 2024 19:15:00 GMT -5
This is pretty much me when I cook pasta, because I still cook like DD is living at home: (Who else does this remind you of?)
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