[AT] Blizzard of '78

[Al Jones]

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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