# I thought I was fucked but it turns out I'm doing the fucking. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 5, 2006, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-i-was-fucked-but-it-turns-out-im-doing-the-fucking/375341 "2006-10-05T01:46:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Surly\_Chick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Surly\_Chick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surly_Chick)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-i-was-fucked-but-it-turns-out-im-doing-the-fucking/375341/21 "2006-10-05T14:17:30Z")
I’m with **NurseCarmen** - _crib sheets??_ ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-i-was-fucked-but-it-turns-out-im-doing-the-fucking/375341/22 "2006-10-05T14:36:31Z")
Naturally. We were allowed them all the time in EE. You weren’t expected to memorize all of the formulas, since in real life you would have them there. The problem was figuring out how to use the damn things. After reading his notes, I’m surprised he only took two points off. My man, you should have _seen_ sol[sup]a[/sup. After what she did last night, **all** predictions of area were too high. ---
**Author:** ![Caiata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e56c9b/32.png) [@Caiata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caiata)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-i-was-fucked-but-it-turns-out-im-doing-the-fucking/375341/23 "2006-10-05T14:48:53Z")
> [@bouv](#): > > It looks like he wrote: > > > [@](#): > > > > See sol[sup]a[/sup] for explaination of why prediction of area is high. Maybe it’s meant to be **sol[sup]n[/sup]** - as in “See solution” - has he released or does he plan to release an answers guide for people to check their marks against? ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-i-was-fucked-but-it-turns-out-im-doing-the-fucking/375341/24 "2006-10-05T14:49:56Z")
[QUOTE=bouv] The answer is 32 cm[sup]2[/sup]. [/QUOTE] Well there’s your problem. You used metric, such an arcane unit of measurement. ---
**Author:** ![Sunrazor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sunrazor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunrazor)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-i-was-fucked-but-it-turns-out-im-doing-the-fucking/375341/25 "2006-10-05T14:51:39Z")
Um … I guess I don’t feel so bad about having to write five pages about the elided female voice in post-colonial South African literature. ::I wept because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who was studying to be a biomedical engineer.:: ---
**Author:** ![Lakai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de0a6/32.png) [@Lakai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lakai)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-i-was-fucked-but-it-turns-out-im-doing-the-fucking/375341/26 "2006-10-05T14:55:57Z")
I did this for one of my Government classes. I had to do a paper on St. Agustin and the just war theory, which I started at 8pm on the night before it was due. I could have sworn that half the paper was either incoherent babbling or the lyrics to “war what is it good for”. I got a B+, which is pretty good for incoherent babbling. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-i-was-fucked-but-it-turns-out-im-doing-the-fucking/375341/27 "2006-10-05T14:56:25Z")
[QUOTE=Surly Chick] I’m with **NurseCarmen** - _crib sheets??_ [/QUOTE] That’s obviously what you take with you when you can only remember things in your sleep 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Lakai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de0a6/32.png) [@Lakai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lakai)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-i-was-fucked-but-it-turns-out-im-doing-the-fucking/375341/28 "2006-10-05T14:57:19Z")
I mean St. Augustine of course. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-i-was-fucked-but-it-turns-out-im-doing-the-fucking/375341/29 "2006-10-05T15:02:16Z")
I had several college courses (in Spain) where we were allowed crib sheets for the problem-solving part. They would be checked by the proctors to make sure they included only “allowed” materials (i.e., only the formulas and not usage examples or instructions about when to use each one). For biochemistry, we had to prepare a diagram with every methabolic reaction we’d seen, using a DINA2 piece of paper (4 DINA4 stuck together worked fine). We had to use it as our crib sheet and hand it in at the end, it was worth 10% of the grade. I prepared mine with a friend and the professor gave us extra points because - we were the first people who’d thought of using\* both sides!\* ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-i-was-fucked-but-it-turns-out-im-doing-the-fucking/375341/30 "2006-10-05T15:51:27Z")
Congrats. It is a strange truism that people who realy worry about exams results after completing an exam are usualy in the top 15 percentile results. ---
**Author:** ![taxi78cab](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47c2d/32.png) [@taxi78cab](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/taxi78cab)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-i-was-fucked-but-it-turns-out-im-doing-the-fucking/375341/31 "2006-10-05T16:36:06Z")
Crib sheets are often allowed in engineering courses. They don’t expect students to remember ALL the formulas and constants involved in the course, and in the “real world” an engineer would have access to books with the formulas or constants. A lot of my professors also felt that it’s a good way to force students to study. It makes you review the concepts and determine which formulas are important to have with you for the exam. Congrats bouv! ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-i-was-fucked-but-it-turns-out-im-doing-the-fucking/375341/32 "2006-10-05T16:40:35Z")
😛 Seriously, good job. Now pass a little of that ju-ju this way, would you? I’ve got two big papers coming up… ---
**Author:** ![wevets](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9a140/32.png) [@wevets](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wevets)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-i-was-fucked-but-it-turns-out-im-doing-the-fucking/375341/33 "2006-10-05T16:44:18Z")
Congrats! Sounds like you did good! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![934spe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/9/90db22/32.png) [@934spe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/934spe)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-i-was-fucked-but-it-turns-out-im-doing-the-fucking/375341/34 "2006-10-05T16:45:20Z")
Good job, see, procrastination really does pay off. Just remember, you can usually get some credit if you include surface area, hydrogen bonding, or divine intervention in your answer. SA and Hydrogen bonding seem to be a key to just about anything, and well, who can argue with divine intervention?.. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-i-was-fucked-but-it-turns-out-im-doing-the-fucking/375341/35 "2006-10-05T16:49:08Z")
Nice! Oh, and for those who care: c=1,802,617,499,785.254 furl/ftnt ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Woo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7c8e57/32.png) [@Dr.Woo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Woo)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-i-was-fucked-but-it-turns-out-im-doing-the-fucking/375341/36 "2006-10-05T17:08:42Z")
[QUOTE=Booker57] Only a 98? [/QUOTE] Hi Mom! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-i-was-fucked-but-it-turns-out-im-doing-the-fucking/375341/37 "2006-10-05T19:34:06Z")
[QUOTE=Caiata] Maybe it’s meant to be **sol[sup]n[/sup]** - as in “See solution” - has he released or does he plan to release an answers guide for people to check their marks against? [/QUOTE] Hmmm…I bet it does mean see solution…in some weird, twisted, makes-sense-to-the-professor way. And IIRC, he has it posted online…but apparantly not yet. But I did find out something amusing. In my cardiovascular phys. class, we have half a dozen instructors, all teaching about different aspects (one was diffusion and permeability, one was ion channels (good GOD doesx that stuff sucks ass), one was an intro to pharmacology, and one just started on muscle mechanics.) My biomechanics classes is taught primarily by one professor, but has about three guest lecturers doing anywhere from one to four classes each. And one of the segments in the biomechanics class is on muscles and yes, it’s taught by the same guy teaching me about muscle in the physiology class. Heh. ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-i-was-fucked-but-it-turns-out-im-doing-the-fucking/375341/38 "2006-10-05T19:42:46Z")
[QUOTE=bouv] The answer is 32 cm[sup]2[/sup], and that’s larger than a normal tibial plateau. [/QUOTE] Easy for you to say. I bet you have Mow’s book right in front of you. ---
**Author:** ![velvetjones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/5f9b8f/32.png) [@velvetjones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velvetjones)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-i-was-fucked-but-it-turns-out-im-doing-the-fucking/375341/39 "2006-10-05T20:07:46Z")
Congratulations **bouv** that was a righteous smack down. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2006, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-i-was-fucked-but-it-turns-out-im-doing-the-fucking/375341/40 "2006-10-06T03:03:38Z")
[QUOTE=Dag Otto] Easy for you to say. I bet you have Mow’s book right in front of you. [/QUOTE] Well, if you’d like, I’ll post Mow’s equation 8 in chapter 5: E=σ/ε=(P/A)/[(L-L[sub]0[/sub])/L[sub]0[/sub]] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-i-was-fucked-but-it-turns-out-im-doing-the-fucking/375341.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-i-was-fucked-but-it-turns-out-im-doing-the-fucking/375341.md?page=3)