And I will do so tomorrow as well.

  • Mardoniush [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    Works with some subjects, not with others.

    Comp Sci and Law, sure. But Nursing or the Sciences? An Industrial Chemist's first job is often "Do 400 titrations, you have 5 hours". And in the medical sciences you generally need to do the thing or provide the data yesterday, so you better have memorised the equations.

      • LargeAdultSon [she/her]
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        4 years ago

        The first course I tutored for was intro to microprocessors, and involved weekly C programming practicals that could be done in pairs. My friend, who'd tutored the course before, bet me that any woman who'd worked in a pair with a dude would eat shit in the practical exam, due to spending the whole semester with some beta doing all the coding for her in the hopes of eventually getting a pity handy for his trouble. I thought he was being uncharacteristically neckbeardy, but then the prac exam rolled around and most of the feeeeemales didn't even know how to set up the project correctly in Eclipse.

        • Koolio [any]M
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          4 years ago

          Hey - just a head's up - I got a couple reports on this for misogyny. I know you're a woman using incel terms ironically, which I don't have a problem with, but it's probably best to just not use them.

      • Mardoniush [she/her]
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        4 years ago

        Love it when the guy who designed the local aquaduct never actually learned Partial Differential Equations and just trusted Matlab and his CAD program was giving him the right numbers.

        • Pezevenk [he/him]
          hexagon
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          4 years ago

          That has little to do with whether or not they cheated in some classes. Most engineers will do that regardless of whether they cheated in some class or not, and regardless of whether they know PDEs or not. I dunno, it's their birthright or something.

          Anyways, usually the people I help cheat aren't super ambitious. They just want to fucking pass some shitty class that is preventing them from getting a degree so that they can find a job as teachers or something.

      • Mardoniush [she/her]
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        4 years ago

        Yes, there's absolutely a place for collaboration, but I've done professional lab work (mostly on the harder end of the Biological sciences, but some Enviromental work too) both in academia and industry, and there is a surprising amount of shaking sep-funnels and hand-written calculations even in a well-automated lab.

          • Mardoniush [she/her]
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            4 years ago

            Ah, Mine was more "why won't this fucking thing tether to the substrate properly!?" or "We just got 3 litres of unidentified toxic sludge mixed with what is probably crude oil, you have 2 hours to work out how to shove it into a gas chromatograph without killing the machine and hopefully yourselves."