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My digital logic professor was so lazy he reused previous year homework questions on exams and exams were completely open notes. The old questions were available with answers on old versions of the course website that were still online. Everyone just brought the answers to each exam.
He may not have been lazy; he may not believe in the system.
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The article is about a guy who finds a friend inside of his pallet of books and you're all arguing about the theoretical value of the books.
Never change, HN.
I once took a critical thinking course and bought the textbook 2nd hand from the college bookstore. A week or two in, I noticed half of a sentence written in the margin. As the professor started teaching the topic from that page, he rhetorically asked a question, did not get an answer, and then answered himself with the sentence from the book. I filliped ahead and found that the entire book was annotated with all of…
> I really wanted to keep it for posterity
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Reminds me of over a decade ago I was in a high school AP course. At the start of the course, the teacher recommended we get a AP prep book to study throughout the year, and recommended 2 brands. She specifically said not to get one brand, noting that it was of inferior quality. I had already got the prep book she didn't recommend as I had found it on sale before that remark was made. I later learned that she used th…
Similarly, with a slight twist, a prof I had used to recommend we read the entire text book, not just the chapters required for the class. It was an open book exam so people figured they could annotate the pages or whatever and didn't bother to follow his adcice. He would often say, 'everything [we] ever want to know is in that book!' He was right. The final exam was verbatim the practice exam given at the end of the…
Not everyone was there on time, some students were going to drop & add the class and most people weren't paying attention.
He casually joked for a couple minutes then settled down to get started.
There was never another hint.
When the final came, each question was verbatim from homework problems that were not assigned.
I bought my brother a book as a gift. A book I love called "powers of 10" which is a series of pictures each taken from an order of magnitude greater distance. It starts with atoms and goes all the way up to the milky way. It's such a good way to understand the relative size of things in our universe. I bought it used on Amazon. It was an old library book that still had the sleeve and index cards with the date stamps…
> It starts with atoms and goes all the way up to the milky way. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEHCCsFFIuY
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All the students in a course I was teaching apparently were using Chegg for the previous year’s textbook so I decided to use as a supplement (to Strang [which was not the previous year’s book but had all the answers online anyway]) an old Mir publishers book on Diff Eq which I can’t remember exactly how I got (either a bookstore in the French quarter or maybe a library remainder sale). At any rate it turns out the En…
Did you put it on libgen?
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This is like the Harry Potter book where Harry gets Voldemorts old potions notebook. It made him a star pupil too. Do you have a scar on your eyebrow?
That's the sixth book, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince". But if I recall correctly, the original owner of the book, the Half-Blood Prince, was none other than Snape, not Voldemort.
I have some old (1800's) student primers (textbooks) which I value for the doodles and illustrations past owners have done. Perhaps the most fascinating is a drawing of an early steamship with smokestack and paddle wheels, but also masts for sails. This style of ship didn't exist for that long, and some student long ago must have seen them and been fascinated by them enough to make the drawing in the book.
The owner had embellished the inner covers and a few blank pages there.
In the most beautiful handwriting from a bold ink pen were a number of short passages, and one I will never forget:
Remember me when death shall close
my eyelids in the last repose
And evening breezes gently wave
the grass above your schoolmate's grave.
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So my version of that story is less analog and arguably less academically honest. I had a somewhat challenging mid-level math class in college where after each homework assignment and test the professor would give us a URL to a PDF of his scanned handwritten completed version of the work. The URL path was something like /math-321/2019/fall/test-1.pdf, and the professor diligently made sure that each file wasn't avail…
My chapter of Tau Beta Pi (engineering honor society) got so tired of how unfair it was that people would share around old tests and decided to do something about it. Since there is no way to stop people from doing this, we got permission from the dean to start a test and study sheet bank and made it publicly accessible on a website.