The Shrine

PostPosted:**Wed Apr 30, 2003 12:42 am**

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>You shouldn't cheat in college, however I used text messaging to find out formulas today on some of my finals and I feel bad about it. Guilty Conscience.....</div>

PostPosted:**Wed Apr 30, 2003 1:09 am**

<div style='font: 10pt Arial; text-align: left; '>All of my friends in the Pre-med department are making their cheat sheets for MicroBio and OrganicChem</div>

PostPosted:**Wed Apr 30, 2003 9:26 am**

<div style='font: ; text-align: left; '>Plus, they immediately expel students who are caught cheating, and since I'm currently at my final year, I don't think I'd want to take that big a risk...</div>

PostPosted:**Wed Apr 30, 2003 9:39 am**

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>My physics classes always allow some sort of forumla sheet - yeah, you may have some forumlas, but unless you know what they mean and know how to use them, you're hosed. My algorithms tests are open book and open note, and it's still going to be hard. I've never understood making people memorize forumlas.</div>

PostPosted:**Wed Apr 30, 2003 9:59 am**

<div style='font: ; text-align: left; '>I know my English's not that good, so I checked the dictionary for 'forumla' but I couldn't find anything :P</div>

PostPosted:**Wed Apr 30, 2003 11:31 am**

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>Well it's probley because you won't be able to look at your little formulas when you finally get a job to do whatever it is you're gonna do. :)</div>

PostPosted:**Wed Apr 30, 2003 12:29 pm**

<div style='font: ; text-align: left; '>Are you kidding? Any programmer worth his salt has a reference library to "look up formulas" when he/she needs to.</div>

PostPosted:**Wed Apr 30, 2003 12:46 pm**

<div style='font: 12pt Arial; text-align: left; '>yeah, those "forumals" can be hard to remember sometimes... lol.</div>

PostPosted:**Wed Apr 30, 2003 3:00 pm**

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Yeah, yeah, you all can eat me. I don't proofread my posts much, yet the world moves on.</div>

PostPosted:**Wed Apr 30, 2003 3:04 pm**

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Physics classes might have lots of equations, but why memorize them? What they <i>mean</i> is what's important. Anyone who needs them is going to be able to look them up. Same with CS - an instructor of mine said he stopped having students code on tests because as Zhuge said, most people code with a few reference books around.

Really, it's the exact opposite of what you said. In the three core subjects I've studied at school - CS, math and physics - people who work in those fields have mini-libraries of reference books lying around.</div>

PostPosted:**Wed Apr 30, 2003 3:37 pm**

<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>I ain't eatin' you. =8^)</div>

PostPosted:**Wed Apr 30, 2003 4:09 pm**

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>My teacher used to have this joke about our wannabe doctors letting their patients die because they had to look up the forumlas.</div>

PostPosted:**Wed Apr 30, 2003 4:21 pm**

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>There's a reason we write stuff down. My physics professors don't have all of the equations memorized, so why should I?</div>

PostPosted:**Wed Apr 30, 2003 4:22 pm**

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Oh, and those doctors have very thick books for diagnosing patients. Some are obvious, others require looking something up.</div>

PostPosted:**Thu May 01, 2003 2:43 am**

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>It's not what you learn, it's what mark you get</div>

PostPosted:**Thu May 01, 2003 3:43 am**

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>God knows it's the truth...</div>

The Shrine

You shouldn't cheat in college, however I used text messaging to find out formulas today on some of my finals and I feel bad about it. Guilty Conscience.....

You shouldn't cheat in college, however I used text messaging to find out formulas today on some of my finals and I feel bad about it. Guilty Conscience.....

They allowed you to bring a handphone inside the examination hall? Pencil case, calculator and wallet are the only things my colege allows their students to bring in during the examinations.

The only classes I have that don't allow some sort of a forumal sheet are my math classes.

Like I said, the only classes that don't allow formula sheets are my math classes. CS classes don't need them, normally.

No one's going to die because someone had to crack open Stroustrup's "The C++ Language", someone had to look up an integral in a table, or someone had to look up the equation for hydrostatic equilibrium.