[roughly related to university] stuff

Sep 12, 2004 14:53

It's peculiar to think that this time last year I was completely tied up with reading Plato, writing my PS and stressing about whether I would ever pass the Oxford test. In fact, the truly weird thing is looking on UKL and my friends list and in the Sunday Times Guide ("nothing to pick between Oxford and Cambridge" :)) and realising it's all ( Read more... )

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mussed September 12 2004, 23:46:59 UTC
It's the order of ops that's the problem.

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mussed September 13 2004, 18:29:42 UTC
fair point. still an error :P :)

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scrabblequeen September 12 2004, 16:50:49 UTC
Nooooo, physics is evil. Avoid at all costs!!

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mussed September 12 2004, 23:44:34 UTC
Haha. I could say the same about Bio!

I was serious. Isn't it worrying?!

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jacinthsong September 12 2004, 16:54:29 UTC
Ow. Although even my science teachers ignored the 'powers, then multiplication, then addition' (I forget the acronym we learnt XD) rule, so you can't expect better from journalists...

And it should encourage me that my present existence can be summarised in similar vein, except with 'Chomsky' instead of 'Plato' (whom I haven't read in forever! last time I did, I kept looking for pieces of paper to refute all his arguments because my dad refused to let me write over his copy...) but it doesn't really.

Physics?! Well, I love the degree-level stuff, but the prospect of any moer of the damn school syllabus after AS was too much. *g*

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scrabblequeen September 12 2004, 17:31:04 UTC
BODMAS by any chance? *g*

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jacinthsong September 12 2004, 17:34:46 UTC
Ahhh! *lightbulb* :)

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mussed September 12 2004, 23:42:33 UTC
We called it BROMDAS.

Brackets
Raise to the power
Of
Multiplication
Division
Addition
Subtraction
:D

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