Engineering Flash Mob! - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 22, 2012, 11:00:50 am
content: Brilliant!Brings back memories of when I was in Sydney's third ever flashmob:http://www.sydmob.com/mob_three.htmlDave.

author: Jimmy
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: September 22, 2012, 11:27:39 am
content: Tipical arts major assingment getting in the road of the engineers.

author: Bored@Work
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 22, 2012, 02:49:40 pm
content: The idiots would have been beaten to pulp at my university. And not by some security, but by the fellow students. And when they would have been out of hospital they would probably have gotten a second beating before being fired from the university.Why? Because the exam would have to be declared as irregular, and that would have meant people couldn't get the grade they needed to advance to some of the next courses. The university would have tried to organizes an additional exam, but that would have happened to late.A bunch of lawyers would have made a killing by trying to force the university to make an exception for their clients because of the special circumstances.Fun all around, because of some brain dead, permanently drunken arts students couldn't respect their fellow students.

author: ftransform
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 22, 2012, 03:35:14 pm
content: lmfao my class was cursing at the instructor in one of our programming classes during a midterm. I'm suprised the students did not beat her up.I don't really care (as I am a curve-rider) but it was pretty funny. People are pissed about spending 200$ a lecture to listen to some inane Asian woman.props to the students in the video. That takes some balls.

author: T4P
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 22, 2012, 03:40:46 pm
content: Quote from: ftransform on September 22, 2012, 03:35:14 pmCertainly don't want ... I'm pretty sure all of the Asian women can't teach electronics properly for nuts no matter their "degree" - pun intended

author: ftransform
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 22, 2012, 03:42:21 pm
content: Research "professor" + bad accent = badI'm not really sure what they are professing. They should just call them researchers unless they have a teaching degree.

author: Mechatrommer
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 22, 2012, 04:01:55 pm
content: they should eat pussies

author: bullet308
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 22, 2012, 07:28:44 pm
content: The worst are the foreign-born STEM grad students. Back in grad school I used to run the math library nights and weekends, and we would have various east Asian, south Asian, whatever grad students come in while working on their PhDs. All of them had a teaching load, and I don't think they had one fluent in English among them. I always took pity on the math undergrads. At least in my program, all the instructors spoke something akin to standard English!Now that I teach, I cant say the above video thrills me. I teach Freshman Seminar classes and am a pretty easy going prof by most standards, but I would flunk every last one of 'em that were involved in something like this, and then teach a How-To-Figure-Your-Final-Grade-Lesson..."see this midterm here? Lets plug in a zero and see what happens...OOOH! Not good..."

author: 8086
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 22, 2012, 07:36:59 pm
content: Actual exam?I would be pissed if I had to put up with that during a test. Virtually any other occasion at university would have been acceptable, but not an exam!

author: T4P
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 22, 2012, 08:19:24 pm
content: Quote from: bullet308 on September 22, 2012, 07:28:44 pmI thank the Lord i am fluent in english ... back in high school it was a serious issue for me, having people around me that mostly had english only as good as a monkey(probably) but still managed to score more then me all the time(WTF!)!

author: krish2487
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 22, 2012, 08:34:37 pm
content: @T4Pwe have a saying for that among undergrads..."If you cant convince them, confuse them!":-DApparently your situation...

author: AndyC_772
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 22, 2012, 09:14:41 pm
content: Quote from: 8086 on September 22, 2012, 07:36:59 pmI call b.s.Who videos exams?

author: tom66
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 22, 2012, 09:56:49 pm
content: Which engineering exam though? I wasn't aware that there was a subject simply known as "Engineering".

author: Pentium100
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 23, 2012, 05:55:30 am
content: Quote from: Bored@Work on September 22, 2012, 02:49:40 pmLet me guess, you live in the US? Suing each other is probably the national sport of the USA...In my university it would not be a problem. There probably would just be another "free"* retake for those who couldn't finish the test normally, because they were too distracted. No need to involve a single lawyer.* The norm here is that if you fail a test or exam (during a semester there may be tests in addition to the exam at the end) you get to try again, if you fail again, you then have to pay 20EUR or something like that and try the third time. After that it depends on the teacher - he may schedule additional retakes for you or not (in which case you repeat the course).

author: bullet308
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 23, 2012, 01:03:10 pm
content: No lawyers required. You call campus security to escort out the offenders, and then you proceed with the exam. Those escorted out, you write down a zero and refer them for disciplinary action. If they want to hire lawyers, have at it. The school already has them on staff.

author: tom66
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 23, 2012, 01:14:23 pm
content: I'm pretty sure, due to the camera and violinist teaching staff, that it was arranged beforehand. But who am I to know.

author: Mechatrommer
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 23, 2012, 03:46:03 pm
content: Quote from: tom66 on September 23, 2012, 01:14:23 pmsure is the "we caught you on tv" show. one kind of program i hate most, the same magnitude as the "world wrestling federation smackdown" show (they think they can fool the audience, but not me). so i repeat reply #7 again (to including the teaching staffs). edit: on the same arena, "blairwitch project" pretty did a good job though. i believed it was real until many thoughts and reading reviews. followed by the not so good attempt "apollo 13" iirc and one project about alien invalid earth (cant recall the title).