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To: Logain Ablar who wrote (42679)	9/30/2005 10:55:59 PM
From: Johnny Canuck	Read Replies (1) of 69326

Tim, I know what you mean. A really boring professor turned me off power engineering forever. Engineer always was a lesson on survival and minimizing your pain. There used to be joke around the faculty that if you scored more than 50 percent on a course you studied too hard for that course. The joke was mainly because a high marks in one course usually came at the expense of marks in some of your other courses. If you got at least 50 percent in all your course you lived to fight another day and maybe even got to have a bit of a life. The account in the story is not that far from the truth. I remember writing an exam for one of the "screening" courses they had. Screening course were designed to have a certain percent of the students fail each year in order to get the numbers down for the senior level courses. 5 people passed the Christmas exam out of 120 students. The average mark for the exam was 30 percent. I remember scoring 15 percent. The course mark was made up of 50 percent for the final, 30 percent for the Christmas exam and 20 percent for assignment or 100 percent for the final Needless to say most of the class was writing for a mark made up of a 100 percent final. Luckily most people found people for the previous year to get help them get through the final. I actually ending up with a decent mark for the course, but writing a 100 percent final is a real killer. The funny thing was I had the same prof for a senior level course and he was actually a good teacher. He just had the attitude that he did not have time for first year students and was just out to break their spirit.

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