Exams Schmexams - schizzoool threadizzle yo

Borommakot

I have an exam at 8AM tomorrow I should be studying for so I signed up for NHL Gamecenter and started watching the Jersey-Phoenix game instead.

God I hope my exam gets snowed out tomorrow.

MrMonroe

So I'm taking an human rights & intellectual property seminar

but MrMonroe, you ask, what on earth does intellectual property have to do with human rights law?

behold, the first question on his "sample exam," produced for us because he has never taught the class before:

“The manner in which creative works, cultural heritage, and scientific knowledge are turned into property has significant human rights implications.”
Audrey R. Chapman, Approaching Intellectual Property as a Human Right, XXXV #3, Copyright Bulletin, UNESCO, 1, 5 (2001).
With reference to the discussion in the Human Rights and Intellectual Property Unit, write a critique of the above statement. [30%)

are you

fucking

kidding me

he's put a 3,500 word limit on the entire four hour exam. I did that in two hours in my agency/partnership exam on Monday.

good thing I'm such a good bullshit artist or I would be worried about it

Orikaeshigitae

Ding! 24 hours awake!

I feel like vomiting.

satansfingers

so the question is "explain what this course is"?

Swill

i can't focus on writing this essay

i just get sincerely scared that i am going to do something wrong and not get in to the school

Orikaeshigitae

think about how much more life experience you have compared to the average applicant (a lot) and also how aweome you are

you could pretty much just go 'i'm writing this from germany, where i moved because i felt that i needed a change' and they'd throw money at you

Swill

i wish i could just stream of consciousness this guy and hope they don't that it was intentional

MrMonroe

satansfingers wrote: »

so the question is "explain what this course is"?

in 1050 words or less, recommended time one hour, ten minutes

yes, that was the question

can't wait to see what the real exam will have to replace this "model" question

AMP'd

you should establish the qualities that you see in yourself (honest-to-god qualities, not just what the college wants to hear) and the reasons that you want to get in wherever

and then you should pick the qualities you have that are good for the college, and write an essay that emphasizes them. don't talk about germany if it won't get you in. only talk about germany if germany applies to what you want to tell them about yourself.

Coinage

Man, does programming in Matlab ever not suck? Maybe I'm just retarded, but I can't get it to cooperate with me at all.

And I just realized I think I'm going to get a C in this stupid easy Communications class because I put off doing one of the assignments until it was too late to hand in, whoops.

MrMonroe

you nerds might think this is pretty cool:

Google has created a summer fellowship position worth $7500 with sixteen host institutions

you pick two host institutions who you could intern with, and if you're selected, you get a lump at the beginning, a lump upon receiving a favorable midterm evaluation, and the balance upon receiving a favorable final eval

nobody better apply to the EFF or Creative Commons, though

they're mine


edit: haha matlab

Coinage

MrMonroe wrote: »

edit: haha matlab

If you have a better solution that my community college and my professor are likely to have, feel free to suggest something, I only need to write a simple thing for the quadratic equation, cramer's rule, and algebraic operations with complex numbers, I know it's not difficult but I have no experience with programming and I am having great difficulty getting the syntax to work for me.

Monkeyfeet

Writing an essay on the use of concealment, ambiguity, and evasiveness in early Tudor poetry. Should be close to killing myself by tomorrow evening.

MrMonroe

Coinage wrote: »

MrMonroe wrote: »

edit: haha matlab

If you have a better solution that my community college and my professor are likely to have, feel free to suggest something, I only need to write a simple thing for the quadratic equation, cramer's rule, and algebraic operations with complex numbers, I know it's not difficult but I have no experience with programming and I am having great difficulty getting the syntax to work for me.

if you have to program the equations from scratch you might as well be using C++

if you want something that will automate those functions, SPSS is good for statistics, and I can't help but plug the program the company I used to work for makes

Orikaeshigitae

Monkeyfeet wrote: »

Writing an essay on the use of concealment, ambiguity, and evasiveness in early Tudor poetry. Should be close to killing myself by tomorrow evening.

That sounds pretty cool, if a bit broad.

Evil_Reaver

Wow. My study group has been studying Fed Tax for 12 hours straight.

And we're probably not going to stop for another 4-5 hours.

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

Ubik

Fed Tax sucks

i'm hoping i can just look everything up in the Code during the exam

Evil_Reaver

It's been my best class this semester, but apparently I forgot everything during the last week and a half of finals, so studying yesterday and today has been really frustrating.

MrMonroe

so you need a 750 word max personal statement for the google fellowship

I'm applying to Creative Commons and the EFF, which are both very open-source-loving organizations focused on having an ethical internet. They are pretty bitchin!

here's my personal statement:

In my short time in law school, I have sharply diminished the scale of my ambition. Not all of us will have the opportunity to argue a case before the Supreme Court, and far fewer will have the opportunity to deliver a ruling in that venue. I am sharply aware that my chances of being one of these vaulted few is statistically insignificant.

What I have learned, however, is that law is not made only at the highest levels. Slow, collaborative action in the lowest courts must precede the false apparition of sweeping change in the highest one. If any advance toward a free, information enabled society is to be made, it will be made as apparently isolated enterprises plead their cases to the courts of their relevant jurisdiction. It is such independent and yet collaborative progress which I believe your organization represents.

Unfortunately, the information economy must suffer from the effects described by public choice theory; those who have the most to gain from restricting information freedom will exploit their fiscal advantage to whatever degree is practicable to achieve their ends. However, I believe there is an interest possessed by the general public which is opposed to these interests, and one which can be advanced by committed individuals working in concert to protect our mutual enrichment. It is my hope that, with your organization, I can serve the ends of the independent programmer, the privacy-conscious user, and the ethical business enterprise. No new law is made without the tireless efforts of those business people willing to innovate ethically outside the boundaries of settled law, nor without those lawyers willing to litigate losing cases when their clients are in the right. I believe your organization would allow me to give my time and my limited capabilities to the advancement of the public interest where it will do its maximum good.

Thank you for your time and your participation in this important program.

advice?

Ubik

my professor delves into the tiniest minutia, goes off on tangents then says we don't have to know that stuff, and says we're responsible for stuff we read about but didn't cover in class, but then the exercises and in-class quizzes we've done all year are exceedingly easy and basic

so i have no idea what to expect of this exam and not knowing is the worst part

MrMonroe

special question, should "jurisdiction" be pluralized in that second paragraph? I'm not sure which is correct.

Ubik

MrMonroe wrote: »

special question, should "jurisdiction" be pluralized in that second paragraph? I'm not sure which is correct.

i think so since cases and courts are also pluralized; and i would use "respective" instead of relevant

also, i wouldn't use "sharply" twice in the first paragraph

otherwise sounds good but i don't know much about what they do

Evil_Reaver

Ubik wrote: »

my professor delves into the tiniest minutia, goes off on tangents then says we don't have to know that stuff, and says we're responsible for stuff we read about but didn't cover in class, but then the exercises and in-class quizzes we've done all year are exceedingly easy and basic

so i have no idea what to expect of this exam and not knowing is the worst part

My professor delves in to the tiniest minutia and expects us to know all of it. We go over everything in class and she really does a good job explaining everything.

Sucks that we have to cite the IRC for our work, though.

Our final is basically going to be a tax preparation problem from gross income all the way down to credits and the tables in section 1.

Ubik

Evil_Reaver wrote: »

Ubik wrote: »

my professor delves into the tiniest minutia, goes off on tangents then says we don't have to know that stuff, and says we're responsible for stuff we read about but didn't cover in class, but then the exercises and in-class quizzes we've done all year are exceedingly easy and basic

so i have no idea what to expect of this exam and not knowing is the worst part

My professor delves in to the tiniest minutia and expects us to know all of it. We go over everything in class and she really does a good job explaining everything.

Sucks that we have to cite the IRC for our work, though.

Our final is basically going to be a tax preparation problem from gross income all the way down to credits and the tables in section 1.

i kind of wish mine was that

but it's short answer, multiple choice, and true/false with explanation

so the facts and circumstances could be changing up the whole time

MrMonroe

Ubik wrote: »

MrMonroe wrote: »

special question, should "jurisdiction" be pluralized in that second paragraph? I'm not sure which is correct.

i think so since cases and courts are also pluralized; and i would use "respective" instead of relevant

also, i wouldn't use "sharply" twice in the first paragraph

otherwise sounds good but i don't know much about what they do

first two fixed, second instance of "sharply" replaced by "keenly"

satansfingers

i feel drastically unprepared for this criminal law exam i have tomorrow. probably because i only finished my outline today! should be a blast.

Evil_Reaver

Eh, I finished my civ pro 2 outline at 2:30 AM the morning of that 9 AM final.

I'm not going to finish my fed tax outline until way late tonight and that final is at 9 AM tomorrow.

So yeah, don't worry about it.

satansfingers

it's just kind of sad how much i fell off in my studying between my property final last week and this

i had a week for each, but i spent the first week actually studying, and i spent about half of this week doing absolutely nothing

Lawndart

I'll take it as a vote of confidence in my plans to become a teacher that a bunch of my fellow students taking the same horrible US History class as me said, after I helped them review for the final, that I should have taught the course instead of the professor.

In other news, two out of three finals down. Unsure about my Spanish final, but good lord I knocked my History and Geography finals out like a pissed-off Mike Tyson.

Evil_Reaver

Jesus... wow.

Only 50 more pages of notes to go through...

Ramen Noodle

finnith wrote: »

Ramen Noodle wrote: »

I would have gotten a 100 on my Accounting final just now if it weren't for fucking bonds payable and amoritization. Seriously, I blanked hardcore.

In related news, 7 am finals are the worst thing ever and should never ever happen. I'd rather take a Friday final.

How much detail do you go into in your Accounting course? I'm taking ACTG2011 in my undergraduate program and we do everything case-based. I do know how to calculate present value, and know how to use present value tables as well. For amortization we only consider straight-line, accelerated, and units-of-activity. I find that accounting case exams would be easy if they gave us enough time.

But yea, I have a stats exam tomorrow, accounting the next day, then organizational behaviour and macroeconomics on Saturday and Monday respectively.

We're pretty much doing the same stuff as you guys then. I have no idea what I'm in for with Managerial Acct next semester.
I should be studying for Business Law but I'm dicking around online and about to make a gingerbread house with the girlfriend.

Also, law school dudes: I'm only a sophomore in undergrad but I'm thinking about taking the LSAT for law school. Worth it?

Apolloh

I saw exams in the thread title and i just want to burn this thread down

fuck exams to hell

EDIT: I mean what the fuck Japanese Politics

I have to fill out an entire blue book answering the question "What is Japanese Politics, and how did it get here?"

Fuck off i need two for that and have to use one

Evil_Reaver

Ramen Noodle wrote: »

Also, law school dudes: I'm only a sophomore in undergrad but I'm thinking about taking the LSAT for law school. Worth it?

NO

Unless of course you want to be $150,000 in student loan debt with no job prospects after you graduate. Because if that's what you want, law school will get you there in 3 years.

satansfingers

law school is worth it if you really want to be a lawyer, but don't bother if you're just kind of kicking around the idea

thanimations

Evil_Reaver wrote: »

Ramen Noodle wrote: »

Also, law school dudes: I'm only a sophomore in undergrad but I'm thinking about taking the LSAT for law school. Worth it?

NO

Unless of course you want to be $150,000 in student loan debt with no job prospects after you graduate. Because if that's what you want, law school will get you there in 3 years.

Pretty much this.

1. Do you really want to be a lawyer?
2. And probably not some high-powered, on the fast track to partnership at a big firm lawyer?
3. Will you get full scholarships?
4. Or do you have a rich family?
5. Are you really sure you want to be a lawyer?

If you answered yes to all of those, then sure go to law school. Just realize that it's expensive, hard, and leads really to only one career (that is currently log jammed).

Kakodaimonos

MrMonroe wrote: »

Coinage wrote: »

MrMonroe wrote: »

edit: haha matlab

If you have a better solution that my community college and my professor are likely to have, feel free to suggest something, I only need to write a simple thing for the quadratic equation, cramer's rule, and algebraic operations with complex numbers, I know it's not difficult but I have no experience with programming and I am having great difficulty getting the syntax to work for me.

if you have to program the equations from scratch you might as well be using C++

if you want something that will automate those functions, SPSS is good for statistics, and I can't help but plug the program the company I used to work for makes

I'd stay away from C++ if you've never had any experience programming. It'll make you pull your hair out with all the other bits you need to do to get a program working.

What's the hangup? The vectorization syntax or just the general Matlab syntax? I always kinda liked Matlab, but I also did all my research in numerical analysis.

A lot of places are using Python/ATLAS/Numpy, but that's basically learning a programming language, albeit an easier syntax than C++ or Fortran. It's used quite a bit in industry applications also.

Evil_Reaver

thanimations wrote: »

Evil_Reaver wrote: »

Ramen Noodle wrote: »

Also, law school dudes: I'm only a sophomore in undergrad but I'm thinking about taking the LSAT for law school. Worth it?

NO

Unless of course you want to be $150,000 in student loan debt with no job prospects after you graduate. Because if that's what you want, law school will get you there in 3 years.

Pretty much this.

1. Do you really want to be a lawyer?
2. And probably not some high-powered, on the fast track to partnership at a big firm lawyer?
3. Will you get full scholarships?
4. Or do you have a rich family?
5. Are you really sure you want to be a lawyer?

If you answered yes to all of those, then sure go to law school. Just realize that it's expensive, hard, and leads really to only one career (that is currently log jammed).

The other test is:

1. Do you hate your life?

Y/N

2. Do you want to hate your life more?

Y/N

If you answered yes to both of those, then you're perfect for law school.

Seriously, dude, law school has been one of the worst decisions I have ever made.

George Fornby Grill

Swill wrote: »

i can't focus on writing this essay

i just get sincerely scared that i am going to do something wrong and not get in to the school

what school you applyin' to Brando?

Al_wat

oh man

oh man oh man oh man

i can almost feel the end

one exam left and its gonna be a breeeeze

Coinage

Kakodaimonos wrote: »

MrMonroe wrote: »

Coinage wrote: »

MrMonroe wrote: »

edit: haha matlab

If you have a better solution that my community college and my professor are likely to have, feel free to suggest something, I only need to write a simple thing for the quadratic equation, cramer's rule, and algebraic operations with complex numbers, I know it's not difficult but I have no experience with programming and I am having great difficulty getting the syntax to work for me.

if you have to program the equations from scratch you might as well be using C++

if you want something that will automate those functions, SPSS is good for statistics, and I can't help but plug the program the company I used to work for makes

I'd stay away from C++ if you've never had any experience programming. It'll make you pull your hair out with all the other bits you need to do to get a program working.

What's the hangup? The vectorization syntax or just the general Matlab syntax? I always kinda liked Matlab, but I also did all my research in numerical analysis.

A lot of places are using Python/ATLAS/Numpy, but that's basically learning a programming language, albeit an easier syntax than C++ or Fortran. It's used quite a bit in industry applications also.

I am taking a class on C++ next semester, so I'm sure that will be a load of fun. It just never does what I think it's going to do, I probably need to just bang my head against the book I got from the library more. Although since you're here, I'll ask you: is it possible to enter a series of numbers for a,b,c and have it perform the quadratic equation with each number in the series as just one script running? That was my idea because there's a bunch of numbers we're supposed to run the program on, and obviously it's mathematically possible to align each number in a series as an instance of the quadratic equation, but Matlab gets mad at me when I try to multiply two non-square matrices, it's probably not intended to do something like that.