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2017-10-10 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Berkeley Students Protest Exam, Demand ‘Take Home Essay’ Because White Privilege And Stuff

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Posted by Fred 2017-10-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Engineering take-home exams were my downfall.

Posted by Glenmore 2017-10-10 00:13|| 2017-10-10 00:13|| Front Page Top

#2 But surely you got your degree, Glenmore, or close enough to make you employable...

Posted by trailing wife 2017-10-10 01:07|| 2017-10-10 01:07|| Front Page Top

#3 A reason for protest: "Our well-beings are being put on the line because of our emotional, mental, and physical stress that [Berkeley] is compounding with what is already going on in our every day lives"

If Bezerkeley students didn't protest so much,they would have sufficient time to prepare for their exams. I don't think they know what they are asking for as take-home exams can be "challenging."

Posted by JohnQC 2017-10-10 07:10|| 2017-10-10 07:10|| Front Page Top

#4 Oh, and a pony too.

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-10-10 07:26|| 2017-10-10 07:26|| Front Page Top

#5 Not in Engineering, tw, in Geology/Geophysics. Had to take Continuum Mechanics and Partial Differential Equations and earned my Cs.

Posted by Glenmore 2017-10-10 10:09|| 2017-10-10 10:09|| Front Page Top

#6 Trailing daughter #1 studied geology. Yes, it is a very different way of thinking than engineering.

Posted by trailing wife 2017-10-10 10:48|| 2017-10-10 10:48|| Front Page Top

#7 The students told Shaiken that they were going to take their complaints to the Department of Ethnic Studies...

Apparently, in addition to academic study the ES department also offers a de-facto forum for Social Justice redress. Who wudda thunk it?

Posted by DepotGuy 2017-10-10 12:30|| 2017-10-10 12:30|| Front Page Top

#8 I have a Physics BS and was two classes, and $8000, short of a Math BS. I then went for an MS in Computer Science: Computer Science "proofs" were undefinable mongrels between Physics and math, which the parentage of various parts varying as the need arises. Quite maddening.

Posted by ptah 2017-10-10 12:49|| 2017-10-10 12:49|| Front Page Top

#9 It is my considered opinion that any degree that has the word "studies" in it is less than useless. Gender, ethnic, victim, women's, ... Doesn't matter.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2017-10-10 15:09|| 2017-10-10 15:09|| Front Page Top

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