The last three years have not been good to me
I recently found out why I should've remembered all the calculus stuff I learned in college.
Last Saturday, I took the diagnostic exams for my application for master of engineering. I breezed through the computer questions and probability questions in just 10 minutes. The exam was for two hours and I spent the remaining time looking at my paper wondering how the heck I'll be able to finish the 50 remaining items.
Of course I was able to answer most of the algebra stuff. And trigonometry was easier than I expected. I just memorized SOH-CAH-TOA and I was fine. But why the heck should I remember what Euler's equation is? Or why do I need to remember how to compute the mass moment of inertia? Were they trying to punish me for all the bad things I've done since graduation?
I am an electronics engineer. Why do I need to know how to compute for the force exerted by the weight of a T bar? Why didn't they ask me about transistors and Kirchoff's Laws?
I now know why. It's for cases like this. They wanted to torture me and they succeeded.
DA GANDA blogged @ 8/04/2002 04:47:00 PM
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