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jainaI've just now remembered we have a quiz in physiology tomorrow morning. We're supposed to read this background chapter on the kidney, because God forbid the professor should actually *teach* us about the kidney himself in the FOUR DAYS he's been assigned to teach it to us. He'd cover twice the material if he didn't ask the class a question after every sentence:
"Okay, and the basal membrane is connected to the extracellular matrix via....?"
*dead silence for about 15 seconds, because even though we all know the answer, we're really sick of him continually asking stupid questions rather than just TEACHING*
*finally someone gets sick of it and mutters "Integrins."*
"Integrins, right, and inside the cell those connect to...?"
*another dead silence, which someone finally breaks with a barely audible "actin cytoskeleton"*
"Did someone say actin? Good, okay, and the integrins connect to what in the extracellular matrix?"
***
You get the picture. Question after question after question, all pointless, all stuff we've *just* learned (or had refreshed) in cell biology, and all preventing us from doing any actual learning. Drives me up a freakin' wall.
And now that I've ranted, I should read this chapter, so I don't fail this stupid quiz tomorrow.
"Okay, and the basal membrane is connected to the extracellular matrix via....?"
*dead silence for about 15 seconds, because even though we all know the answer, we're really sick of him continually asking stupid questions rather than just TEACHING*
*finally someone gets sick of it and mutters "Integrins."*
"Integrins, right, and inside the cell those connect to...?"
*another dead silence, which someone finally breaks with a barely audible "actin cytoskeleton"*
"Did someone say actin? Good, okay, and the integrins connect to what in the extracellular matrix?"
***
You get the picture. Question after question after question, all pointless, all stuff we've *just* learned (or had refreshed) in cell biology, and all preventing us from doing any actual learning. Drives me up a freakin' wall.
And now that I've ranted, I should read this chapter, so I don't fail this stupid quiz tomorrow.
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reminds me of Ferris Bueller...
Date: 2003-11-10 01:07 am (UTC)anyone?
the Smoot-Hawley tariff...
- merc
Re: reminds me of Ferris Bueller...
Date: 2003-11-10 01:13 am (UTC)Raised or lowered?
...raised tariffs, in an effort to collect more revenue for the federal government.
Did it work? Anyone? Anyone know the effects?
It did not work, and the United States sank deeper into the Great Depression.
Today we have a similar debate over this.
Anyone know what this is? Class? Anyone? Anyone? Anyone seen this before?
The Laffer Curve. Anyone know what this says?
It says that at this point on the revenue curve, you will get exactly the same amount of revenue as at this point. This is very controversial.
Does anyone know what Vice President Bush called this in 1980? Anyone?
Something-d-o-o economics.
"Voodoo" economics.
heck, next time your prof asks a question, just answer: "Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act?"
heh-heh...
;-)
- merc