My friend WP was a TA for Digital Communications 2. This is reputedly (and truthfully) one of the most nefarious courses in all of Electrical Engineering. Although it would take an entire blog to write about the absurdity that goes on in that course, this IM conversation focuses on how much worse the quality of students is getting, even after our (me and WP's) dismal year there. The pictures shown below are screenshots of histograms of pdfs and cdfs submitted during his TAship. Hand-written, no ruler, no labels, no tick marks. A masterpiece, really.
tone t(pwn) - valrhona is a foul temptress says:
ok, shoot
WP says:
haha, is it good?
tone t(pwn) - valrhona is a foul temptress says:
did you send it?
WP writes:
tone t(pwn) - valrhona is a foul temptress says:
nooooooooooooooooooooooo way
WP says:
yes way
tone t(pwn) - valrhona is a foul temptress says:
this is the best thing ever
WP says:
I was so f***ing pissed when I saw that
tone t(pwn) - valrhona is a foul temptress says:
that's the histogram that they sent you
tone t(pwn) - valrhona is a foul temptress says:
????
WP says:
it was an assignment
Wilson says:
Q1
tone t(pwn) - valrhona is a foul temptress says:
HAHAHAHAHA
tone t(pwn) - valrhona is a foul temptress says:
amazing!
WP says:
it was snapped on the first page of his assignment
WP says:
drawn with pencil
tone t(pwn) - valrhona is a foul temptress says:
i'm going to put this on my blog
WP says:
oh, and right next to it is the distribution function
WP writes:
WP says:
can't believe I gave him 2/5
9 comments:
Good old paper and pencil. Haven't seen that for awhile.
While I am somewhat of a fan of the free-flowing, stream-of-consciousness style employed on this blog...umm...could we have a little context? What are we looking at? :( Nyargh, I am the suck.
Curse your feeble brain! Fine fine, explanation coming...
Where's my prize??
Is this some academic in-joke? Like something TAs would get, leaving us working stiffs in the dark?
ROFL. Those graphs gave me such a good chuckle. I needed that.
Nah, no in-joke. It's just completely ridiculous that someone would hand in something like that. Or is it...???
Nah, I just checked. It is that ridiculous.
The student's name wouldn't happen to be Ralph Wiggum, would it?
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