[AT] Blizzard of '78

[Cecil Bearden]

Al:
You are the first person to echo my sentiments of statistics.  I was in OK 
state in 1973-75 I was told by my advisor that statistics would be an easy 
course.  Every time he said something would be easy, I had problems.  I have 
always been a black & white sort of person.  Right or wrong, it is or it 
isn't.  Those random number tables at the back of the book were so foreign 
to me.  I could nto believe that you coupld just open to any page and drop 
your pencil and start getting numbers!!!!!!!!!   Later on in the course I 
lost my random number book, and just made up the numbers.  I got the same 
results....
That statistics course and the Agronomy 2124 (rocks & clods) were the 2 
courses that ruined my 4.0 average.  I was working at a tractor shop and 
hauling and trading used farm machinery while going to college, so I was 
gone a lot.  The statistics prof was a real good guy, he was a young from 
Australia, been here only 3 years..  I talked to him a lot after classes. 
He had some great stories and I was the only one who wanted to listen to 
them..  I told him I needed the credit to graduate since it was in my senior 
year, and he said do not worry.  He gave me a C, and I mean Gave.....  I was 
not so lucky with the Agronomy course.  I had to take a couple of 
engineering courses at the local junior college in OKC to graduate.  Only F 
that I ever had.

Cecil in OKla


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Al Jones" <farmallsupera at earthlink.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2011 11:56 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] Blizzard of '78


>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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