[AT] Blizzard of '78

[Larry Goss]

LOL!  You brought back my own bad memories with this post, Al.  Statistics was the only course that I cried out of frustration all the way through.  Of course, this was in the days before hand-held calculators.  A rotary four-function adding machine was the closest thing to "state of the art" that I had.  I would work for a couple of hours on a problem, check my answer with the one in the back of the book, find it was wrong, and not know where on earth I had made a mistake.  Not fun!

Larry
 

----- Original Message -----
From: Al Jones <farmallsupera at earthlink.net>
Date: Saturday, January 29, 2011 12:10
Subject: Re: [AT] Blizzard of '78
To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>

> I would have been PROUD of a Thursday night exam.  Ours 
> were Saturday morning.  I went home almost every weekend to 
> do farm work and doggone sure had better things to do than set 
> in Raleigh and take a exam on a Saturday. The only thing was, in 
> ag. education we were still at that time in the college of 
> education, (we moved over to College of Ag & Life Sciences in 94 
> or 95)and the requirement for us for chemistry was Chem 
> 100!  No lab, just 3 hrs. of lecture a week.  The 
> exams were still no push-over but I knew I was lucky to be where 
> I was.
> 
> I'm in the second statistics class I have to have for my 
> doctorial program right now.  All my other online courses 
> have had take home, open book exams.  Not statistics.  
> You either have ot show up and take the exam with the on-campus 
> class, or make an appointment thru the NCSU proctoring center. I 
> have managed to learn enough to know that the old saying about 
> lies, damn lies, and statistics is 100% true!  There is 
> truly no more made-up, pull-stuff-out-of-the-air discipline than 
> statistics!
> Al
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> >From: David Bruce <davidbruce at yadtel.net>
> >Sent: Jan 29, 2011 9:39 AM
> >To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-
> tractor.com>>Subject: Re: [AT] Blizzard of '78
> >
> >In my days it was calculators rather than slide rules but the 
> rest held 
> >true.  Thursday night lemmings to the slaughter then lots 
> of campus 
> >unrest afterward (mostly water fights and drunks).
> >
> >David
> >NW NC
> >
> >On 1/29/2011 9:10 AM, charlie hill wrote:
> >> Al, ours were Thursday night exams.  90 minutes to work 
> 30 problems in
> >> Harrelson Hall on those itty bitty swing up desks with a test 
> booklet, a
> >> work booklet an answer sheet and a slide rule.  You 
> think things like
> >> Avogadro's Number or the Molar Gas Constant are tough on a 
> calculator?  Try
> >> them on a 23 scale K E or Post slide rule.   The 
> answer sheet was multiple
> >> choice.  5 possible answers to each question.  The 
> possibilities were the
> >> correct answer and the 4 most probably mistake answers.  
> You didn't have
> >> time to check your work.  You pretty much had to go with 
> the first answer
> >> you came up with and believe me it was on the answer sheet.
> >>
> >> Charlie
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