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    The problem at the college level is the same as the problem at the high school, middle school, and elementary levels. There's no value in learning anymore. A degree is a means to an end, so do the minimum amount possible to get that piece of paper.
    Agreed.

    Also, this idea that you need a college degree has some merit, but there will only be so many jobs that need the degree, and there will always be standards. Supply and demand will lower the wages of those taking college as more people get degrees. Corporations love the upcoming cheap labor.

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    Also, I'm curious as to why you think a Biology class at SAC couldn't be harder than those courses. Explain.
    Crofl noob.

    Your course is obviously entry level, because it's called "Biology" instead of, say, "Molecular Oncology" or "Organic Chemistry III".

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    I gave the course name? More critical thinking at work. The course name of not "biology" I've never seen a course led just "biology". I said it was a biology course as in the TYPE of course it was.

    CROFL Noob indeed.

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    You must have me confused with my parents' generation. That being said, you can thank that generation for all the technology you currently enjoy, you ungrateful little .
    Most of transistor technology was developed in the early twentieth century.

    Most of the insightful stuff in EM theory was developed before or around that time.

    Boomers refined using redundancy and modulation in communication which was initially worked on and developed in WW2 and the fifties.

    You have the software shenanigans of the 1980s and all i can say is thank god for WW2ers getting the standardization boat rolling in the 1960s.

    I am grateful to my forebearers that were worth a . You expect me to be grateful for this steaming pile?

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    I gave the course name? More critical thinking at work. The course name of not "biology" I've never seen a course led just "biology". I said it was a biology course as in the TYPE of course it was.

    CROFL Noob indeed.
    Ah, so you remember it was a biology-specific course but forgot whether it was about anatomy or fungi classification. I apologize, completely understandable.

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    Who said anything about forgetting? Did I say I forgot? , reading is hard for you, isn't it?

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    I think it's ironic one of this sites most die hard right wingers made a thread about college being easy when he probably supports a presidential candidate who needed 6 years and 5 different colleges to get a degree as a in journalism major
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    Manny,


    Let me know when you've taken thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, heat transfer, and digital control systems.
    Let me know when you have.

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    You can go to college, then grad school, go on to have ZERO real world experience, and still become the POTUS.
    Are you talking about det one time someone graduated from an Ivy League school his daddeh bought him into and then had his daddeh buy him a major league baseball team I saaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiddddddddddddd

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    Are you talking about det one time someone graduated from an Ivy League school his daddeh bought him into and then had his daddeh buy him a major league baseball team I saaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiddddddddddddd

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    DarrinS making a fool of himself yet again. He's on the roll of a lifetime.

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    My undergrad was harder than my graduate school, and I am not sure if it was because of the years between the two or the ins utions. I think it is the former. I had classmates in grad school who griped and griped about the older professor who was more traditional. I loved his class. He admitted to me that grades are inflated from when he first taught. I used to get 100's on all the papers in his class, and I was shocked. In high school and as an undergrad, no teacher ever gave anyone a 100 on a paper. If it was great, you got an A. He told me straight forward that what used to be a C is now a B, what used to be a B is now an A, and that my used-to-be-an-A is now a 100 because he could not justify giving me the same A that others received.

    I also agree that it is up to you whether you learn or not. I always worked to learn as much as possible. I figure I am paying good tuition and I want to learn, regardless of what is going on in my class. I always read more, asked more questions, looked up things that interested me. That is the nice thing about the time you often have in college.

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    Grades in grad school are further inflated due to the fact that a C is essentially a failing grade.

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    Manny,


    Let me know when you've taken thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, heat transfer, and digital control systems.
    I did not take those classes i had to learn them on my own for the PE.

    You can solve simultaneous equations and PDEs. Who gives a ?

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    I did not take those classes i had to learn them on my own for the PE.

    You can solve simultaneous equations and PDEs. Who gives a ?

    Are you going to use your newfound expertise to figure out what happened to WTC7?




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    Most of transistor technology was developed in the early twentieth century.

    Most of the insightful stuff in EM theory was developed before or around that time.

    Boomers refined using redundancy and modulation in communication which was initially worked on and developed in WW2 and the fifties.

    You have the software shenanigans of the 1980s and all i can say is thank god for WW2ers getting the standardization boat rolling in the 1960s.

    I am grateful to my forebearers that were worth a . You expect me to be grateful for this steaming pile?

    Yes, you are an ungrateful little .

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    Are you going to use your newfound expertise to figure out what happened to WTC7?

    Red herring much?

    Lets try this again.

    Why should we care?

    Most of the systems for loving simultaneous equations like Gauss or Kramer is not critical thinking. It is a checklist. Diagnolizing a matrix is neat and effective but the insight was already done. Applying the technique is jsut going down a checklist.

    Fourier series for heat problems are a linear approximation. When they decided you can add infinite series of fourier integrals to approximate real values that was true insight. When you learned the checklist that was not

    BTW all of those methods were developed in the 19th century. Thanks LaPlace, Fourier, Gauss, et al.

    You may have the logical consistency to follow a path laid before you but one thing that is very obvious, you cannot think outside of that.

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    Yes, you are an ungrateful little .
    Ungrateful of what? I talk of specifics you just whine like a little .

    Back up what you say or shut the up, milquetoast.

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    Oh and on the I am so smart because i can write code assertion.

    It's common for companies to employ both subject matter experts and programmers. I'm one of those rare birds who is both.
    Darrin is trying to make it seem like he is so smart because he can write in C#, HTML and COBOL. What he really should have said was

    Most companies hire engineers and technicians. My expertise on the subject matter was marginal so I focused on the mundane to try and market myself. Most people do not have to go through all that.
    If you know VLSI, learning programming languages is only a matter of syntax. That you think its the hallmark of your 'success' is telling.

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    Are you going to use your newfound expertise to figure out what happened to WTC7?




    Crofl.

    Makes a thread about how easy college is.

    Posts about how hard the classes were that he took.


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    Red herring much?

    Lets try this again.

    Why should we care?

    Most of the systems for loving simultaneous equations like Gauss or Kramer is not critical thinking. It is a checklist. Diagnolizing a matrix is neat and effective but the insight was already done. Applying the technique is jsut going down a checklist.

    Fourier series for heat problems are a linear approximation. When they decided you can add infinite series of fourier integrals to approximate real values that was true insight. When you learned the checklist that was not

    BTW all of those methods were developed in the 19th century. Thanks LaPlace, Fourier, Gauss, et al.

    You may have the logical consistency to follow a path laid before you but one thing that is very obvious, you cannot think outside of that.


    Was it your critical thinking that led you to believe WTC7 was an "inside job" and that the baby boomer generation is responsible for all the world's problems?

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    Was it your critical thinking that led you to believe WTC7 was an "inside job" and that the baby boomer generation is responsible for all the world's problems?
    I am not wiriting this for your sake, dumbass. i am doing it for everyone else.

    Everyone else: notice how he is unable to address any point that I make and now attempts to steer the conversation elsewhere?

    That also is very telling.

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    It's a good idea to broaden your experience like that. Kind of an insurance policy. Besides that, you may discover that you actually have more interest in one of those other areas.


    So what did you major in Electrical Engineering/Comp Science? I am torn between Comp Engineering, Electrical, or Comp Science. Electrical seems to be the one nowadays that guarantee the highest starting salary outside of Nuclear and Chem Eng.

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    So what did you major in Electrical Engineering/Comp Science? I am torn between Comp Engineering, Electrical, or Comp Science. Electrical seems to be the one nowadays that guarantee the highest starting salary outside of Nuclear and Chem Eng.
    I majored in Mechanical Engineering.

    Maybe you should just take a couple of classes in each field and see what you enjoy more.

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    So what did you major in Electrical Engineering/Comp Science? I am torn between Comp Engineering, Electrical, or Comp Science. Electrical seems to be the one nowadays that guarantee the highest starting salary outside of Nuclear and Chem Eng.
    I majored in Mechanical Engineering.

    Maybe you should just take a couple of classes in each field and see what you enjoy more.
    Or maybe you should drop that mess altogether and come over to the dark side. I know a pretty cool Nuclear Physics professor who could get you started.......

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