Re: TI-M: math class

To: ti-math@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: Re: TI-M: math class
From: Andy Selle <aselle@ticalc.org>
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 22:56:23 +0200 (MET DST)
In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20000901131256.02be8c70@mail.nickd.org>
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> History is stupid. :)
> Chem wasn't too bad, you just have to memorize a bunch of weird facts and 
> rules that seem confusing at first glance. When you do it enough, 
> everything pops into place and it's an easy 5.

Precisely why AP Chem is useless no lab corroboration required.

> It all comes down to the teacher in the end, unless you're a dilligent 
> self-learner, which almost nobody is during high school.

Indeed, another reason why that article was bunk :)

> I know *several* Caltech students that have gotten dueling 1's on Physics 
> C. You have NO idea how impossibly hard that test is. B is an easy test. C 
> IS NOT.
> IF YOU HAVE A DEATH WISH TAKE PHYSICS C. THIS IS COMING FROM SOMEONE WHO 
> POPPED NO-DOZ FOR TWO WEEKS RELIGIOUSLY STUDYING FOR IT AND DESPITE THIS 
> STILL GOT ONLY A 5/4.
> Please trust me on that. It's not like a high school course; it's a high 
> school course on crack, PCP, topical steroids, and intravenous caffeine ALL 
> AT ONCE.
Try college advanced physics ;)

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