Now I understand how people end up with 4.0s

[eyefragment]

By all rights, I should be failing this quarter

Comments

[secret_panda]

Could you possibly change the last word in the first sentence of the first paragraph after "physics" (which is also the last word of the first sentence of the following paragraph)? Some people find it offensive.

Thanks.

And don't worry about the slacking - it happens to everyone, and in the long run it's good for you.

[eyefragment]

Fixed. Thanks.

[secret_panda]

Thank you.

[oxeador]

Now you made me curious!

[oxeador]

Anyone reading this journal could have done the same integral in 10th grade.

Er... not me. I did not know what a derivative was in grade 10. Seriously. I learned to solve that particular problem in grade 11 (because using symmetry arguments you can avoid having to do actual calculus).

Both Munkres and our instructor basically say that pointset is easy and it takes forever to get to any nonobvious statements.

Tychonoff theorem?

[leech]

I didn't learn any calculus until 12th grade.

[hahafaha]

Seriously. I learned to solve that particular problem in grade 11

Which is decidedly different than sophomore in college.

[oxeador]

The "seriously" was to be applied to the "I did not what a derivative was in grade 10". Anyway, my comment was to show that not everyone reading this could do it in grade 10.

[sivakrytos]

I didn't know calc until 12th grade.

[sivakrytos]

Oh. And people don't end up with 4.0's. Not here. This is not just bragging, but I can't point you to any evidence offhand.
Just because a class for you is easy does not mean it is for someone who might be a brilliant biologist. And don't make the assumption that because people aren't paying attention they must not know what's going on.