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Rep Retirement Lodge #158: Lodge Member's Habits

Rep Retirement Lodge #158: Lodge Member's Habits

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Re: Rep Retirement Lodge #158: Lodge Member's Habits

In hindsight I think the upstep into physics is the struggle with physical problem solving... Most of what is learned is either programmatic (lift this log, use chainsaw) or ethereal (compose 20 pages on Homer)... Physics is the first real time you are asked to break down a physical reality into parts and then co-mingle that with mathematics.

It really is the first struggle with real world applied reason... It makes you own up to what things REALLY are... Even if just on paper... It takes a kind of record keeping and rigor you aren't used to doing

So if done right, physics should be a rather formative course in aiding you to break down other technical barriers. If you are in engineering this is nothing more than a first step anyhow
 
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Patman said:
So if done right, physics should be a rather formative course in aiding you to break down other technical barriers. If you are in engineering this is nothing more than a first step anyhow
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Waaaaay back when I started in engineering school physics was clearly the "weed out" class. A way to cut out the posers from those who had a chance of cutting it in the higher level classes. Between that and diff E-Q, they found out if you could hack jr and sr year.
 
goldy_331 said:
Waaaaay back when I started in engineering school physics was clearly the "weed out" class. A way to cut out the posers from those who had a chance of cutting it in the higher level classes. Between that and diff E-Q, they found out if you could hack jr and sr year.
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Still are. To be fair, those classes are not the most exciting, but of you can't do the basic fundamentals correctly your not going to be able to do the detail stuff correctly.
 
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goldy_331 said:
Waaaaay back when I started in engineering school physics was clearly the "weed out" class. A way to cut out the posers from those who had a chance of cutting it in the higher level classes. Between that and diff E-Q, they found out if you could hack jr and sr year.
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At Tech it's chemistry. The first exam in University Chemistry is legendary for being a weeder. There used to be a tradition of piping "Another One Bites The Dust" on loop all over campus on the day of the exam. Sometimes people would send someone to sit at a table outside the door with a stack of drop slips and McDonald's applications, or dress as the Grim Reaper. I heard of one fraternity that sent a ringer to sit down with the exam and stage a panic attack 30 minutes in. (The powers that be have since stopped all this because someone's snowflake might get butthurt.)

Calc is pretty bad too. Not as flamingly bad as Chemistry, but I've heard that the math department staff openly refer to themselves as "gatekeepers" in staff meetings.

/got a 77 on that Chem exam
 
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I'm up already. Yuck. I was tired when I got done with work, and went to bed at about 7, thinking then I'd just wake up with my alarm at 3am to catch my flight. Turns out I woke up on my own at 1am, and now I can't fall back asleep. Oh well, it'll get sorted out soon enough.

Work over here was a success. The Engine Whisperer strikes again :D
Got the customer's engine running well, and tuned correctly, then trained a few of their technicians on how to tune it correctly, including tidying up their written procedure a bit to make it easy to use. I think everyone here is happy with the results.
 
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bigblue_dl said:
Got the customer's engine running well, and tuned correctly, then trained a few of their technicians on how to tune it correctly, including tidying up their written procedure a bit to make it easy to use. I think everyone here is happy with the results.
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So you can write in Scots?
 
Twitch Boy said:
At Tech it's chemistry. The first exam in University Chemistry is legendary for being a weeder. There used to be a tradition of piping "Another One Bites The Dust" on loop all over campus on the day of the exam. Sometimes people would send someone to sit at a table outside the door with a stack of drop slips and McDonald's applications, or dress as the Grim Reaper. I heard of one fraternity that sent a ringer to sit down with the exam and stage a panic attack 30 minutes in. (The powers that be have since stopped all this because someone's snowflake might get butthurt.)

Calc is pretty bad too. Not as flamingly bad as Chemistry, but I've heard that the math department staff openly refer to themselves as "gatekeepers" in staff meetings.

/got a 77 on that Chem exam
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I did a lot better in Chem than physics... But I don't know if that's because I took physics first

Edit: another one bites the dust is hilarious... Especially if its university sanction
 
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Johnny Holm plays anything that gets the audience going. Hell, he played "Shipping Up To Boston" on St Pat's Day; kinda surprised me that that song was in his wheelhouse.

I actually did know that T-Day Eve was the 2nd busiest bar day of the year. Holiday.....relatives.....and usually no Eve festivities like on Christmas....yeah, probably gonna want a drink.

Looking forward to the long, peaceful weekend.
 
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Sooooo, Dave and I are the only ones who saw the classic John Hughes movie Sixteen Candles then? Sure. Fine.

How do I tell hottie bartender he needs to trim his beard? It's getting to be too....much, and it's threatening his hottie status. Well, not really. But he needs to fix that.
 
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Scarlet said:
Sooooo, Dave and I are the only ones who saw the classic John Hughes movie Sixteen Candles then? Sure. Fine.

How do I tell hottie bartender he needs to trim his beard? It's getting to be too....much, and it's threatening his hottie status. Well, not really. But he needs to fix that.
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I have seen it once or twice.....lonnnnng time ago. Far from my favorite Hughes movie.
 
wolverineTrumpet said:
There are nuns at the Notre Dame at Michigan game. I'm not sure how to behave.
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How else?? You should have done mean horrible things to them. ;).

Actually saw some of that game on TV here at Greektown. The start of the first to the Michigan goal. Picked it back up right before the Irish broke the deadlock.
 
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