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#4071

At least you get something. We get nothing. Last year we had an exam that was about 6 pages long, the formula sheet was 18! This year, I had an exam in the continuation of the module, it was much harder, we got 0 formulae.

You know it’s bad when it’s easier to develop your own encryption system to save formulae into calculators with basic and limited memory (they only save numbers of upto like 12 digits), so that you can smuggle formulae into the exam. Then developing your own hieroglyphic system in parallel so you can smuggle stuff in on the side of your pen as well and make it look like random doodles or just the design of the pen.

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#4072

Wooo, It sounds awful. And actually I don’t think that it’s always useful to learn so many formulae by heart. I mean, in your future life you’ll be able to read them on books! I don’t get why they want us to fill our brains with information that you can find everywhere whenever you want. In my opinion what’s important is the “concept”.

I used to develop so many different ways to cheat when I was in the high school, I was a pro at that :sunglasses:
Now it’s not always that useful anymore. Let’s say that (in our case) if you now the law, the concept (and of course you need to study a lot to truly understand it), it’s easy to derive the basic formula…and from that one you can derive the more complex ones. It doesn’t work for every subject…but yeah, sometimes it does

(Ps. I’m sorry that I’m writing in the wrong thread :point_right::point_left:)

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#4073

It’s not, we learn to be the very tools we’re meant to be using. Their training us to be computers and it’s bloody stupid. We’re engineers, we’re supposed to use computers, not be them.

It’s not even so much the concept in our case. We just have to know how to produce a result. It’s what differentiates us from physicists. A physicist is steeped purely in the theory. To use the PC example again, a physicist wants to know exactly how it works. An engineer just wants to use it to get their job done as efficiently as possible.

You have it easy. We have to derive formulae, momorise others, memorise diagrams, design stuff according to real scenarios and answer theory as well. We legit had a question asking us to write an essay mid-exam. The paper was asking a bunch of nightmare-ish maths questions and then, mid-paper, randomly asks for a full essay on a theoretical part.

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LOL, I didn’t even realise what thread we’re in. :joy:

#4074

That’s you, Rob. Not using the Chat room and then spamming all over the place. :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

But please, continued. I like following your conversation!

@gabridc98 :wave:

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#4075

What chat room? This place doesn’t have a chat function.

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#4076
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#4077

Oh I remember this thread now, that is not the thread for me. :joy:

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#4078

@the_termin8r How innovative right :smile:

#4079

No, not innovative, you’ve taken WA and moved it to the forum. That’s all that thread is. I don’t need two WAs.

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#4080

I totally agree with that. Our IT teacher always told us “You need to program the computer, you’re not the computer. He’s “stupid”, he does what you tell him to do.” and I couldn’t agree more.

Yep, you’re right, in your case is quite different. Even your way of thinking at problems is different…I guess. A chemist has to proceed in a “experimental” way (at least in certain fields). We try and try and try until we find the solution. And computational chemistry is more and more needed and helpful as we go on. A physicist works different, and so on.

Well, not that easy but yeah, I understand what you mean :joy:

I think I know what you’re talking about :thinking:

Oh god, it’s such a nightmare :scream: the only thing I recognized is the Fourier transform :joy:

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#4081

I really hope that I’m not annoying anyone :point_right::point_left:

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#4082

Happy Cake Day!! @gabridc98 and @NoireXJasper :cake:

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#4083

Happy cake day @NoireXJasper

#4084

Happy belated cakeday @NoireXJasper ! :hugs: :tada: :cake:

#4085

Damn. I haven’t seen this topic :neutral_face: sorry for missing a lot of bdays.

Happy birthday to everyone who’s birthday is August 5th :birthday: Hope you have a wonderful birthday :cake: :beers: :wine_glass:

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#4086

Happy cakeday @titan2025 ! :cake: :tada:

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#4087

Happy birthday @titan2025 . Enjoy your day :cake: :confetti_ball: :birthday: :partying_face:

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#4088

Happy cakeday @titan2025 :slight_smile:

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#4089

Happy birthday @enrylazza !! :tada: :birthday: :tada:

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#4090

I’ve been inactive for a long time, happy bday and cakeday to everyone I missed and happy bday @enrylazza!

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