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Cramming is not memorization. It's not optimal studying, sure, but you've still learned something.
In my experience there's little long term retention from cramming.
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I have to say I think it's quite possible and comical that the professor interpreted your work on two of the three questions as additional evidence that you did know it should be an "and", since I would guess relatively few students would attempt any more than _one_ permutation if the assignment only asked for one. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
But what did the other students the class do? If almost everyone in the class did only one, the professor would have to give almost the entire class 33% for a mistake he made.
The professor actually did relent and gave me a good (not perfect, but good) grade. Then he judged me extremely harshly on the final exam so I ended up with a B in the course anyway.
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Sounds like you don't have the life experience to see that there is more point to getting a degree than learning. Maybe you don't like that, but it is true.
What things are supposed to be learned alongside said degree? I graduated years ago and I still have yet to see what these other points are.
* Makes it way easier to get a job
* Great social experience
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> I think is how it is supposed to be - parents making decisions for their kids using their best judgement Yes. > (preferences). No. The parent is supposed to use their best judgment about what is best for the kid given the kid's reasonable long-term preferences [1]-- not the parent's preferences. Or, to put it another way, what is best for the actual kid, not what would be best for the parents if they were in the ki…
I think we are on the same page. A parent has a mental model of the world and the kid inside it. Based on this model the parent makes projections and take actions. The problem is this mental model which never the same between the parent and the kid. > Or, to put it another way, what is best for the actual kid, not what would be best for the parents if they were in the kid's position. Most parents act in the best inte…
Why? I was exercising, reading, and doing some (very simple) math at age 3, and I turned out ok.
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>Particularly those who care about their grades and are actually trying to abide by the spirit of the thing and not game the system. A grading system that is more work for students focused on the grade over learning is something I would see as a feature not a bug.
It's not more work if you're focused on the grade over learning ; it's more work if you care about the grade at all, assuming the material is at all challenging. Unless you get a perfect grade on the first attempt (or at least a high enough grade to guarantee yourself a top mark in the course overall), you're going to feel compelled to keep re-trying. (And if other coursework forces you to leave it be, then to feel l…
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Those types of generalization have always been troublesome for me - While I admit I was an idiot as a kid, the respect I had for my parents has decreased even further the older I get. I understand more and more how harmful their behaviors were for me as a child, and have been intentional about not falling into the same behaviors with my kids. Some parents are just really really inadequate or abusive as parents.
Usually when someone has abusive parents, they become abusive themselves. It is a good idea that they get professional help in order to break the cycle. >and have been intentional about not falling into the same behaviors with my kids. This is usually the problem. You are intentional on NOT falling into THE SAME behaviors, and probably will overreact on the opposite behaviors that is as abusive as the original. Just…
My grandfather, partly from trauma and partly from what I believe is hereditary mental illness, swung back the other way, peacing out instead of parenting, leaving my father to get into a lot of trouble as a kid, and witness some different traumatic things.
My father swung back towards being unable to control his anger, and with frequent mood swings between depression and rage. Although, aside from spanking he didn't beat his kids, just pets and walls.
I'm the first generation that has been working towards treating my hereditary mental issues - taking mental health meds, going to counseling. I'm hopeful that I can break the cycle, but enough of a realist to realize I am lacking on a lot of parenting things that I need to learn from outside sources instead.
There is no point in cheating on exercice, but there is on evaluation.
I've often thought the same thing about becoming an adult, especially a parent, in general. There are so many choices that I harshly judged older people for making (how to allocate their time and money, where to live, what to allow or not allow the kids to do, how to behave at work, etc.) that I now find myself making as a married guy in my mid-30s with four kids. It makes me sad, but on each point I'm like, "Oh, now…
I am a parent and a teacher and I think the process is very different. Yes I sometimes differ from how I thought I would raise my children, but only in the details.
Now with teaching the problem is that you have to deal with all the kids/adults that were raised in ways that you strongly disagree with.
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What things are supposed to be learned alongside said degree? I graduated years ago and I still have yet to see what these other points are.
The other benefits of a degree beside learning are: * Makes it way easier to get a job * Great social experience
Degree inflation means that getting a job with one is about as hard as getting a job without one a couple decades ago. In any case, who you know is usually more important than what you know when starting out. If you wind up self-employed, then
I started out my professional programming career before I had a degree (and started learning programming around 9-10 years old). In my many, many interviews, I've never been asked about my degree.
Likewise, I've never asked a programmer about their college education in an interview and I don't see a reason to start asking that question. I care about if you can do the job and that's all any company really cares about too.