My transport phenomena final exam was at 5 PM. The professor walked in, placed a single piece of paper with the exam questions on the desk in front of the whiteboard, and said "you have until 8 AM tomorrow to leave the solved exam at my office. You can use whatever you want. I recommend pooling efforts to make it in time".

It took 35 chemical engineering majors all night in a classroom to answer 5 questions, 3 of which were multiple choice. It was an exercise in spontaneous labor division and teamwork because we had no time to waste figuring it out. We all passed.

[–] btfod@hexbear.net 21 points 1 week ago

Damn. Hope nobody had anything else going on in their lives that night. Glad you all passed though

[–] propter_hog@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago

That's a good test, though. It more accurately reflects a real-world scenario for chemical engineers.

[–] AnarchoSnowPlow@midwest.social 27 points 1 week ago

"Open everything. Not even the internet can save you..."

[–] TerminalEncounter@hexbear.net 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My worst exam was a non Euclidean geometry exam that was 5 days long. And I needed every fucking day lol, it was only 6 questions but it was absolutely brutal.

[–] propter_hog@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Mostly just writing proofs, right? I took a geometry course in grad school that taught the subject ab initio, so we were given like three axioms and then proceeded to prove the rest, using our previous proofs along the way. At the parallel line postulate the professor chose the euclidean route, but that was toward the end of the semester.

[–] TerminalEncounter@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago

Yeah exactly

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

When I took physics 1 it was like this (2 questions open book), but with a 120 minute time limit. I managed to get a perfect score on the first exam and mid 90s on the second, but did way, way worse in the 3rd and final.

[–] Acute_Engles@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I took physics in highschool and did quite well, took the advanced class in grade 12 and hit a brick wall so hard i dropped the class within a month and took a study block. There's a certain type of math that twists the brain into a knot

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago

Definitely. For me, a lot of the Calc 1 type material was easy. I remember the first exam had a question where you were given a long equation that described a particle's movement over time. You were asked to get the equation for its velocity and acceleration. I found that pretty easy since it's just the first and second derivatives. But the third exam had some questions about tension that involved solving simultaneous equations for 3 or 4 free bodies, with like 3 unknowns? So you had to derive all the equations, use a matrix and Gaussian elimination to solve them, and it probably had a few more steps I'm forgetting. The final had a lot of thermodynamics stuff involving Carnot cycles etc etc. I took the actual thermodynamics course years later and I still don't get it.

Fun class tho. My professor was an old Cuban man. He told us a few anecdotes from when he lived in Cuba, like explaining the concept of pressure with an example of how, in the crowded buses, sometimes a lady wearing heels would step on your foot and the weight is concentrated into the small point of the heel.

[–] Acute_Engles@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago

In trade school the last one is just a code book, a set of drawings, a sheet with all your math formulas and the question is essentially just "describe what's going on right now and what you should do about it"

[–] CocteauChameleons@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago

The reason why im a fry cook