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  • I agree. My calc I professor would just silently scribble equations on the board, then turn around, gesture wildly, and shout “You see”.

    I remember right before the drop date, I had a 34 in the class, and he took time out of class to beg us to study because if too many people failed, he might have consequences.

    The only grade left was the final. I did much worse on it than the rest of the course, but my course grade shot up to the low 70s. Sure enough, I had the like 4th highest grade in the class.





  • scoobford@lemmy.ziptoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldShaq
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    2 months ago

    Average cost of college is under $150k/person. Warrant Buffet is worth $133,500,000,000 (rounded heavily). Warranty buffet could pay for approximately 890,000 people to go to college.

    However given the fact that is most of a million people, and how much of a racket education in the US, I think the actual figure is much higher, because he could do several things to drastically reduce the overhead involved.







  • scoobford@lemmy.ziptoMemes@lemmy.mlits true tho
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    2 months ago

    People who prefer android because it’s open source usually use open source android because that’s what they want.

    That being said, proprietary blobs and black boxes are a pox on basically every usable device these days. I hate it.






  • scoobford@lemmy.ziptoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldI learned so much
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    2 months ago

    I had exactly two English teachers who were good, which was all I needed.

    One when I was young, taught me how to communicate and understand complex ideas properly.

    Another my first year of college, who taught me that deeper meanings and subtleties in fiction wasn’t entirely bullshit. Surprisingly, she did this by making us read Frankenstein and watch Blade Runner.

    Everything in the middle though…woof. Learning to write academic papers has no value unless you’re an academic, and the other 10 literature courses I took all just made me hate reading, even the year where we just read my 4 favorite books.