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"High voltage!"
I've got an unusual set of priorities, I think.
So I'm in physics, doing a lab... and my group members -- normally very clever people -- are totally bent on not actually doing the lab. Which is fine, I suppose, but one of them pulls out this sheet with somebody's answers from Monday, and then starts making a half-hearted attempt to connect up some circuits, and we hook up the volt-meter, and the readings don't make any sense... so like, obviously, she just writes down what her friend wrote down on Monday. This continues for a while... (cue everybody yelling "Science!!")
... so I hung out afterwards (it only took like an extra half-hour; she was gone after like an hour and a half, and I left by 2pm) and did the last experiment on my own (getting very sensible measurements), and looked over all the answers she'd left. And none of them made any sense. So like, at least she copied down wrong answers. Harnessing the power of "inference", I corrected them.
And I was gone with time to eat a veggieburger and write on LJ before the next class.
So I'm in physics, doing a lab... and my group members -- normally very clever people -- are totally bent on not actually doing the lab. Which is fine, I suppose, but one of them pulls out this sheet with somebody's answers from Monday, and then starts making a half-hearted attempt to connect up some circuits, and we hook up the volt-meter, and the readings don't make any sense... so like, obviously, she just writes down what her friend wrote down on Monday. This continues for a while... (cue everybody yelling "Science!!")
... so I hung out afterwards (it only took like an extra half-hour; she was gone after like an hour and a half, and I left by 2pm) and did the last experiment on my own (getting very sensible measurements), and looked over all the answers she'd left. And none of them made any sense. So like, at least she copied down wrong answers. Harnessing the power of "inference", I corrected them.
And I was gone with time to eat a veggieburger and write on LJ before the next class.
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Well I'm really impressed with your determination :)
But at the same time I can really understand not wanting to do the lab. Ugh. I recall many painful physics labs where I couldn't understand how to hook everything up or what it is we were supposed to do.
I'm not sure what I wouldn've done in your situation. I really wouldn't feel right about copying answers...
You know I probably would've tried to do what you did but it's far more likely that I would've failed to get reasonable numbers the second try there.
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But now I can connect up circuits with resistors and measure voltage drops and currents and stuff :) You would've figured it out, probably easier -- the labs are pretty reasonable, this semester, having just been overhauled :)