lol, what happened with the Millennium Tower?
This goes for my side as well. You’d be surprised how many of my class have no practical skills. There was a guy in my class last year who couldn’t even read the color code of a resistor. I’m not expecting him to know the codes by heart (though it’s not too difficult), but at least know how to read it, especially when the chart is literally right in front of you on the wall. 
I despise calculus of any sort, though where do you guys use it?
My entire two years in college before uni. I was basically the guy giving everyone the answers.
My worst ever score on an exam was…2…out of 100 
. First year uni, further maths (it was a final year exam). Throughout my entire life I’ve been beyond atrocious at exams, but aced all assignments, so it levels out to mediocrity. I got an A for my dissertation report (B+ overall), despite writing the entire thing in the 3 evenings before it was due and submitted my first and only draft of it.
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It’s leaning and sinking lol
At the top last I heard it has leaned 12inches (30cm)
I didn’t read the whole article but I guess it covers most
https://www.google.com/amp/s/sf.curbed.com/platform/amp/2016/9/16/12945600/why-millennium-tower-sinking
They built on sand, the foundation didn’t tap down into bedrock to save money because they thought they had gone deep enough, furthermore they built on an old dump site so it’s unstable
They then blamed the new BART rail station that opened on the adjacent block saying that they didn’t provide enough setbacks when they broke ground and that it had caused the soil to shift and that it was on them
Then the BART station maintenance crews found a huge crack on one of the main beams right after they did their whole grand opening 
It’s been a money pit and people have been pissed about it for a while now 
there’s multimillion dollar suites at the top of that tower(56stories) and they can’t have a pinball machine in there
Edit: sunk 17inches and tilted 14inches 
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What is with things with ‘millennium’ in their name and shit construction? This is the part where I chime in with the Millennium Bridge here in London. I love the Apple-esque excuse they were using of ‘you’re walking on it wrong’ .
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Nowhere yet. I would guess it was mostly to provide some background knowledge to calculus for those who hadn’t taken it yet.
Oof That’s rough. I understand what you mean tho. I know a lot of people like that who, no matter how long they study and understand the material, they always struggle with test-taking.
So far the worst I’ve done is 55 out of 100 (which was in the most recent structures course I’ve taken). But in my defense my calculator died and I had to use the basic calculator on my phone. Luckily the lowest test gets dropped and I killed it on all the others so I still passed the course with an A.
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For us, our first year grades don’t even count towards degrees. Though how the hell did you get your phone into the exam and manage to use it?
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lol, it was an open notes test. He didn’t care if you used your phone. I got lucky though bec at first I was sharing a calculator with my friend but eventually gave up bec I realized I was hogging it and it was a garbage calculator (same calculating functions as my phone). I later realized that sharing a calculator was considered cheating and could have resulted in each of us getting 0s if he saw us. Some kids later in the year were sharing their steel manual and got caught Caused a whole scene in the middle of the test.
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Wow, you guys have it good. We get locked away with nothing but a calculator and pen. We don’t even get formula sheets. Sometimes there are lecturers who give a couple of formulae, we only had a single exam with a formula sheet this year. The lecturer is now a God to me. But seriously, he’s probably the best lecturer I’ve had. He knows students are dumb and doesn’t want us remembering stupid equations. He also teahces really well.
Contrary to what I said above, last year we had an exam with an 18 page formula sheet! This year I had an exam in a further version of that module…not a single formula was given. You can guess how it ended.
Oof Sounds rough
Yea our professor was prob the favorite I’ve had so far in college. He understood that it was more important for us to understand how to solve the problems rather than memorize all these formulae. Not to mention we would have access to the formulae in the workplace. He also was ruthless He would relentlessly attack and humiliate students who were clueless or not paying attention Luckily I was able to avoid getting roasted my first year with him.
At first I thought he was just a douche, but as the year went on I realized it was literally just his personality, and, usually, the victim deserved it.
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It was extreme calculus LOL. A lot of Fourier, Laplace and Z transform. All signal processing related stuff. In short, those transforms take a time domain signal (e.g. a sine wave of a given frequency) and convert it to frequency domain (where it becomes a single vertical line). It’s about as hideous as math gets.
LOL extreme calculus That name is just ridiculous
Dang, besides that basic calc first year I haven’t done any since high school, so I’m a little out of the game, but that sounds crazy The highest I did in high school was multivariable, but we had an awful teacher so idk how much of it we actually learned
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Would you like fries with that?
That’s what I call it. The actual module name was Signals and Systems. This year’s continuation was Digital Multimedia and Signal Processing.
There are a lot of formulae and rules that give it to you on a silver platter, but we’re made to suffer. Those of us who are wise know to devise our own encryption system for the basic memory function on our calculators and then devise a totally different encrytion system to smuggle stuff on the side of our pens as random patterns and scribbles.
It really tells you something when it’s easier to develop and perfect two brand new encryption methods to help you cheat in an exam than it is to just study for it.
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Sure!
You?
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Depends on what it is.
Worst flav combination you’ve had recently?
None. I like risky strange flavour combinations.
You don’t?
I don’t mind them. But today I was having beer and randomly decided to get some Watermelon Lucozade in me as well. It tasted exactly like vomit.
Last thing you drank?
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Beer and sweet stuff never combines good.
Water. I mostly do. Don’t like juice or limo.
What do you like to drink?
Are you gonna sleep tonight before midnight?
I hope so. Tomorrow is a long day.
When have you to get up?
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