We paid attention and we still did the homework and everything so we knew the material...cell phones weren't even a thing yet so it's not like we had anything else to do in class...but when your exams are such a huge chunk of your final grade, you're going to make sure you get them right.
study smarter not harder!
My college had "Mechatronics" for the ME majors so that they didn't have to take "real" programming classes. They also learned Fortran. And they had CS's do most of their homework for them.
Very true, I remember my college girlfriend at the time being a premed student and the average for all of her bio exams was typically between 50-60% and eventually got curved up. I don't know why they would do that, it caused so much stress for all the students, and to me just seems like a poorly designed assesment.
Had same experience as Undergrad. One of the EE professors, thankfully never took a class with him, was notorious for grades in the 30-40% range but then a massive curve at the end. I didn't understand the point then and still don't.
THIS IS EVERY BLASTED PROJECT THESE DAYS!
Or, "I know you have revisions, but the shops are done, so just mark them up as you go through the redesign process to save us time." Yeah, because drawing it all again (for the second time) sounds like a blast.
...and at an agreed upon fee of X. We'd be more than happy to expedite your project for an increased rate of 300%, as this will require shuffling of our current backlog and overtime on an already accelerated schedule.
My Physics 3 prof had a thick Indian accent and would always compare things to "like high compression pistons moving up and down" which would subsequently trigger a tangent "how" thought stream. I still don't know how I minored in that series.
