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Yeah...I just finished Trig/Pre-calc and my friend would always ask me how I got that answer...I told him, I dunno. Then he would say, well how did you do it...then I would say, I just did this and this....he would say, Basically you just made up your own rules.Quote:
Originally Posted by weepingforloman
I made up my own rules in math...haha, it worked! I ended up with an 83 in the class!
I just want to make sure this stays on the front page...
And was a name ever decided on for this?
Don't they still have partial credit? My college career was built on partial credit.Quote:
Originally Posted by weepingforloman
What do you mean by partial credit??Quote:
Originally Posted by papayahed
I guess in math, if you set the problem up correctly but do something stupid like forget that multiplying two negatives give you a postitive and then you end up with a negative number and it throws your whole answer off. The answer is wrong so you don't get the 5 points, but you used a method that would have led you to the correct answer had you not had a brain fart in the middle of the long long problem. Partial credit is my friend.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mortis Anarchy
Oh, pssh...my teacher was satan incarnate. She led you to believe that she was in a good mood, then once you asked her a question! BAM!!!!! Your toast.:flare:Quote:
Originally Posted by Shalot
We never got partial credit. But most of her students were seniors so she let them off pretty easy...us too. Or at least with homework...but watch out!
well that is pretty harsh. I can see how partial credit might not be acceptable in grade school, but at some point the math gets so involved and there are so many steps to it and college kids have other classes and jobs and all this stuff going on. Most professors I know will give the partial credit. Do you think that's a bad way to teach, and I am being completely serious. Does it make the students lazy?Quote:
Originally Posted by Mortis Anarchy
No, because a lot of the time its just simple mistakes. Stuff that people KNOW how to do, but under the stresses of exams or whatever, just over look. My chem. teacher was pretty good about it. Excellent teacher he was.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shalot
My chem teacher bragged about how fast he could read Harry Potter, and that he had seen every Seinfeld episode.
sorry i havent been checking in on this thread, parkouring is where you move in straight line, no matter the obstacles, you go over, under adn possiblky through it, it looks pretty darn sweet.
i got a c in algebra 2 at the last half of the last semester, i stopped paying attention and got screwed on the exam
i never got extra credit even though the teachers said they gave it, i once ddi a problem through in physics, i ended up with the right answer, doing an equation that doesn't exist, but the answer wasn't the teachers answer, i went up to the teacher later on to figure out what i did wrong, he said the answer made sense, but wasn't actually correct, he did some crazy math equations that took up the entire boared and got exactly what i got, it was kinda funny, that was my only A test for that class
I've got extra-credit in science by joining Earth-club, in alebra by doing a project, in english by writting a 20 page essay about Hurricane Wilma and reading more than was required.
literature, all i have to do is give the teacher my story and ask them to proof read it and somehow, i get several extra points by the time their done
My english teachers always liked me...even the ones that I never thought would. My freshman year, my english teacher(honors)...anyways...he said that my papers read like literature so because of that I had to tone down my syle...I really don't like it when some teachers tell you one things and then other teachers tell you other things. But he ended up nominating me for Student of the Year...I didn't get it but it was a popularity contest anyways.
I really liked my geometry teacher...the way he taught made sense...and my AP-Bio teacher, she was probably one of the coolest people I've ever met. We are starting a Socrates Cafe Club at my school now!
This keeps falling off the front page. Did we ever agree on a name for this? I saw that Pen suggested a few...
Was there ever a name debate? I didn't know...
*looks at thread title*
BELCHHHHH
A hearty belch is the right way to start, end, or continue, a day.
I'd just like to say that the best belch I've ever heard came from my brother's fiancé. That's right guys- a woman!! She can out-belch any of the four men in my family. It's impressive.
Ah - now there's a topic direction - the hidden and secret skills that women hide from us (and feign disgust at but are really even better than us at)!Quote:
Originally Posted by *Classic*Charm*
This thread actually got relegated to the third page. For shame, my fellow testosteroners, for shame.
I probably shouldn't say this, but I heard a pretty good belch or two from my wife. :pQuote:
Originally Posted by *Classic*Charm*
Hello boys. In case you're interested, I had plenty o' good beer in Germany. (16 is legal there-- and, no, I did not get drunk)
Halo!
I was sitting here, all on my oddy knocky, with a messel on the old mozg.
I thought it was real horrorshow how these devotchkas had a mesto of their own, no place for any of us malchicks.
Now here's a mesto for all you chellovecks. The sharps have their coffee and chai, we can offer that too, but why not have a milk-plus.
Droogs, bratties all of you moodges, come and govoreet with your humble host.
Like I said when the thread was first started some 10 months ago: Great idea! :D:D:D
I'm suddenly suffering a compelling desire to change nationalities :lol: I found out in Cuba people think I'm older than I am and I could actually buy beer! (I'm younger than sixteen :lol: !!!!)Quote:
Originally Posted by weepingforloman
*dreams of returning to cuba*
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Originally Posted by Scheherazade
Now ain't that a sight to viddy. I searched for the thread before I created it. O my brothers, it nachinatted ten old months ago. Dva mozggies, odin idea (two brains, one-). My appy polly loggies Ozeed. You are indeed the host. And I: a bratty, but if served a pyahnitsa.
My litso is as red as krovvy.
That tornado hit your vocabulary too, Nick? :D
:lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
I wanted to go with the theme and use Nadsat, the teenage slang from A Clockwork Orange, this being the Korova Milkbar.
I thought it might annoy, but it's so fun.
I couldn't understand a word of it!
Kids today!
Maybe we should start a 'No Young'uns Allowed' thread...
:D
I was sitting here, all alone, with a thought on the brain.Quote:
Originally Posted by NickAdams
I thought it was real nice how the girls had a place of their own, no place for any of us boys.
Now here's a place for all you men. The women have their coffee and tea, we can offer that too, but why not have a milk with narcotics.
Friends, brothers all of you men, come and talk with your humble host.
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Originally Posted by NickAdams
Now ain't that a sight to see. I searched for the thread before I created it. O my brothers, it began ten months ago. Two brains, one idea. My apologies Ozeed. You are indeed the host. And I: a brother, but if served a drunk.
My face is as red.
Are you from Brooklyn, Nick? Your Hemingway avatar had me thinking you were from Idaho.
I'm from Queens, but Live in Jersey. I work in Brooklyn. I lived in Havre, Mt for the whole of 2003. Hemingway made want to be a writer and although I have come across some authors- Beckett, Faulkner and Borges- whose work I find ... I cringe to say better. I will always be indebt to Hemingway for opening the world of books to me- and he's still a great talent. I would put Borges under him, Faulkber by his side, but Beckett is a titan.
Nice to know you better Nick, and nice to know you're a fellow New Yorker. We also share some common writers we enjoy. :thumbs_up
I'm off for sushi and a movie, but a question so I'll have something upon my retun. Have you read Molloy? I thank you again for suggesting I read Light in August. I've been to a writer workshop or two and notice the greats always breaks the rules. Light in August had new characters being, not only introduced, but the guides for narration. And there is so many othe rthings. I find you can only break rules, if you do so in abundance.
No, Nick. I'm afraid my sole Beckett is Wiating For Godot. I want to read one of Beckett''s novels someday. Just trying to fit it in. Glad you enjoyed Light In August. Is that a great novel? One of the greatest.Quote:
Originally Posted by NickAdams
I was out the door, read your post and almost wept. I have some things I must read, Midnight's Children and Quixote, because I'm committed. But I will not pick up another book afterwards unless it's one of Beckett's novels: Molloy wowed me that much.Quote:
Originally Posted by Virgil
Well thanks for that Nick. I will make it a point to read Molloy before the end of the year. I have to finish a few things first.Quote:
Originally Posted by NickAdams
Lawl! Sausage fest!
Please get back to when you do. I haven't been able to discuss it with anybody. My wife said she would pick it up for that reason, but she is a reader and not a writer. I don't think she will appreciate the fantastic things Beckett had done with the first-person narrative. I decided to never write using the first-person narrative, unless I can rival Beckett.Quote:
Originally Posted by Virgil
Light in August: Faulkner is a clever fellow. He takes a book that has been narrated in the third-person limited and ends it with a first-person narrative, which remains third-person limited. There's a wonderful use of italics, and he brings a real natural feel to a narrative.
As you can see I'm big on narrative.:D