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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 07/23/2019 06:45 PM, Phil Shapiro
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<div> When I was in college, I transferred out of geology class
after one week. After I heard the professor lecture about
rocks for an hour,</div>
<div>I knew the class was not for me.</div>
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<div> Then, as a mechanical engineering student, I learned
that all third year engineering students were required to take
accounting.</div>
<div>The very thought of accounting class makes my brain hurt.
So, I transferred out of engineering and got a degree in
liberal arts (majored</div>
<div>in philosophy.) If I need an accountant, I'll hire one,
thank you. </div>
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<div> Just curious, what class or major did you transfer
out of?</div>
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<div> phil</div>
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"Wisdom begins with wonder." - Socrates<br>
"Learning happens thru gentleness."<br>
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<p>From Advanced Freshman Physics, at Princeton, and I have to tell
this story: <br>
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<p>Opening scene: TA (Teaching Assistant, not a Prof) at the front
of the classroom, at left hand edge of the blackboard (this was
before white boards) that stretches in panels across the entire
front of the room. Starts writing abstruse mathematics, proceeding
down first panel of the board as he explains (?) what he's doing,
moving on to next panel, then the next. <br>
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<p>Me: recent grad from a public high school, through some fluke
high SATs in math, scribbling desperately trying to keep up so I
can have some hope, back at my room, of figuring out what's going
on. <br>
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<p>30 minutes later: TA reaches lower right hand corner of the last
blackboard panel, pauses, strokes his chin thoughtfully, "No,
that's not right. I must have made a mistake." Surveys the arcane
scribbles he's left behind. <br>
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<p>"Well no, I must have made a mistake. I'll start over." Erases
all his work and starts over. <br>
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<p>Me: Heading for the exit, eventually switched my major to
economics. <br>
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Dennis Fowler
P. O. Box 70
Otego, NY 13825
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