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I think this got printed up and hung in the dorm common room as some cathartic exercise.
I dimly remember some other reports of a similar style on other subjects, but I don't recall what they were beyond that.
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> You are going to be a good experimental physicist eventually. He switched to CS and now gets paid to work on A-list videogames all day: http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~kovar/cv.html Edit: Oops, LinkedIn says he's now at Google.
The last line from his CV is a gem: "Two years experience in swing dancing (east coast swing and lindy hop)."
Oldie but goodie. Reminds me of another oldie, Andras Konya's "My C++ Experience/Disaster", which is sadly gone from the internet now.
Oldie but goodie. Reminds me of another oldie, Andras Konya's "My C++ Experience/Disaster", which is sadly gone from the internet now.
this, perchance? http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/classic/message5877.html
I think this is a good deal older than 2007, but my memory could be playing tricks on me. I could swear I had read this when I was studying semiconductors in school, in the early 2000s. Edit: could be I'm thinking of Britney Spears' Guide to Semiconductor Physics, and I read this article later.
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this, perchance? http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/classic/message5877.html
That's just an excerpt from the whole essay. It seems all of his essays are gone from the internet.
Everything in the lab was broken, and the faculty knew it. They told us on syllabus day that about 50% of our lab time was going to be spent repairing the old shitty equipment. Why? Because unless you're working at MIT or CERN that's how labs in the real world work. Everything's broken and you don't have any funding but you still have to publish.
And truth be told I learned more about both basic circuits and how to foster a "get shit done" attitude from that class than any other lab class I had to take. The modules were on a rotation and I remember one of the groups that ended up on a particular experiment spent almost the entire semester fixing one module that nobody got to do that semester. It was an old out-of-production expansion card that plugged in to some old DOS box and interfaced with some piece of tech I can't remember. Literally everything about the setup was out of production. The amount of investigation and creativity they had to come up with in order to try and fix that experiment was impressive. I don't remember if they succeeded.
That lab was an experience.
This post shows how the "weak" are weeded out from the sciences. If your frustration level is as low as shown in the article, you won't become happy doing science. If you instead like getting hit in the face repeatedly for years, welcome onboard until you fall off!