/sci/ - Science & Math

Yes.

Pretty much half of all question professors have openly asked. I've never answered a single one.

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Yup. I don't know how it happened but when I got to college I grew out of my "shell" and just started raising my hand and answering shit. 1/4 of the time I would be wrong too, but I didn't give a fuck.

Protip: nobody else answers for the same reason.

Wait until the semester gets rolling. More and more people will start answering the questions.

>>3650476
protip: most people are idiots and don't have a fucking clue

YOU ARE NOW AWARE:

That raising your hand and answering questions does not improve your comprehension of the material. Nor does it improve your image to the professor. If you want the professor to like you, go to his office hours an talk to him about some of the research he has done (he will jizz in his pants, srsly).

only for 16 years straight

FUCKING ALWAYS.

EVERY FUCKING YEAR KNOWING EVERY ANSWER AND NOT TELLING

I HATE MY LIFE.

>>3650476
>A: You're a freshman
>B: You're taking intro classes
>C: Both A and B

I discovered with one biology professor, that he would wait up to a minute for an answer, and sometimes would spend 5-10 minutes lecturing the class about paying attention if multiple questions were left unanswered. So in the interest of moving class along I started answering.

>>3650443

>That feel when your that autistic asian kid in highschool that knows everything the math teacher keeps openly asking, but avoid putting hand up for fear of looking like a smart ass.

That fucking feel I will miss, college soon.

Wow, this is the most beta board on 4chan...

my senior year my E&M teacher got sick of not getting responses so he started drawing basic electrical circuits and asking for the class to solve using ohms law

the best part is he kept his redicuously enthusism, like answering "THATS RIGHT!" when someone said the current through the 1 ohm resistor with a 1 volt source is 1 ampere.

I sit in the front row, and I end up answering all the goddamned questions, in all 400-level classes. Socially awkward dumb asses giving the teacher the deer-in-the-headlights is a pet peeve of mine.

Yeah, I hate being "that guy", but I hate sitting in silence wasting time worse. Grow a dick OP, your professor has other shit to do also, no use making it painful for everyone.

>>3650514
Pretty much this.

When you're all grown up with a neckbeard of your very own you'll be able to answer questions all day.

Just about everyone has this train of thought:
>Oh man, I know the answer to this
>Wait...what if it isn't actually the right answer? And what if it's actually a really easy question for everyone else? Oh shit, I'll be the laughing stock of the class.
>Well, no need to run any risk of pointlessly humiliating myself. I'll just let someone else answer.

>Professor asks difficult question
>Know the answer
>Too afraid of speaking loudly in front of everyone
>Nobody answers
>He tells the class the answer
>I was right
>Imagine myself actually giving the answer and everyone is impressed

>>3650557
>Professor asks difficult question
>Know the answer
>Too afraid of speaking loudly in front of everyone
>Nobody answers
>He tells the class the answer
>I was wrong
>Glad I didn't answer

>>3650489
Actually one of my professors loved me for no other reason that I sat right in front of his podium (and was the only student in that row too). He openly admitted this too.

>>3650564
Pretty much this. It happens enough that I just don't risk it.

Discussion is not required for

>>3650557
No one would be impressed, not until at least second year.

>>3650574
>post cutoff because of 4chan Y's auto-submit faggotry

...math and engineering classes (only things worthwhile). So just do whatever causes you the least stress. You will retain more information if you're not obsessing over answering questions.

>Professor asks easy question
>Know the answer
>I answered a few questions earlier in the class
>Don't want to be that know it all cunt
>Don't answer
>Nobody answers

>>3650564
>Professor asks difficult question
>Know the answer
>Answer loudly in front of everyone
>Nobody gives a shit
>Explains why
>Glad I spoke up because I learned something
>Alpha as fuck
>get dubs

You guys are never going to suck some 11 inch engineer cock if you don't show some confidence.

>>3650557

So fucking delusional

>Professor asks difficult question
>Know the answer
>Too afraid of speaking loudly in front of everyone
>Think nobody answers, they're all just dimwitted fools compared to I.
>Several other people know the answer, but are too afraid to speak out loudly.

>>3650595
oops, put in >i got it wrong before >nobody gives a shit

Answer all questions in class for the sake of interacting with my educator.

Sometimes answer questions right
>learn
Sometimes answer questions wrong
>learn
Sometimes answer questions wrong intentionally to outline message I can tell the professor is trying to convey
>help derpy class move forward
Go into study rooms with huge dry erase board and look like a pretentious faggot with all of my mathematics on the wall. Don't erase it. I fucking love being a math student.

>>3650612

Don't deny that there isn't something magical about writing maths on a board.

>professor asks difficult question
>i answer
>he asks another
>ok no one? i answer again
>professor asks a slightly easier but still difficult question
>no one answers
>stay quiet because i dont want to seem like that one asshole trying to show up the whole class
>professor looking at me. he knows i can answer it
>oh fuck what do i do
>still dont answer
>pretty sure professor is disappoint

>>3650620

Professor is dissapoint
Dissapoint

Your father is dissapoint
You should feel dissapoint in yourself

DISSAPOINT

>Professor asks question
>Everyone speaks out two different answers
>The crowd comes to an agreement on one answer
>Speak out a third answer
>Everyone laughs
>It was a trick question and my answer was the correct one

Misnamed variables in digital design class. "nPlusOne" was actually one behind the main counter because of the way VHDL works when it creates flip-flops.

>Asks question
>Know answer, but dont want to answer
>Nobody is answering, lecturer stand quietly waiting for an answer
>Work up the courage to answer
>Start speaking at the same time as someone else, stop speaking
>They answer, getting it right
>People near me look at me strangely as i have just loudly spoken half a word like a retard
>Turn red, sit lower in my seat, never answer questions again, cry myself to sleep

>>3650758
>start fake hiccuping and pretend to be all non-chalant about it

>be smart enough to realize that superior intelligence is looked down upon by the hoi polloi
>never answer any questions in class
>act dumber than I actually am in order to have a successful social life
>still maintain a 3.8 GPA
>mfw

U mad aspiefags?

>professor asks question
>know the answer
>give everyone else a chance
>no one answers
>answer
>am right
>everyone starts whispering about how alpha I am
>lean back, put feet up and kick the kid in the head who sits in front of me
>hat falls off
>don't give a fuck
>get laid by hottest girl in class afterwards

Life sure is awesome...

>>3650793

>Math major
>No girls allowed

>>3650780
>superior intelligence is looked down
no it's not. nobody has ever looked down on an intelligent person because they're intelligent

they look down on them because they're often ugly.

>>3650793

Wow, what are you smoking? Cause I want some of that.

>>3650557

>>3650793
You got laid because you answered a question? Calling bullshit.

>>3650835

....

>>3650835

>>3650793
>any job i want
>300k starting
>alpha as fuck
>bitches
>alpha as fuck
>get to retard autism rest of population
>300k starting
did i mention alpha as fuck and 300k starting?

seems like the people that do answer questions are the stupidest people in the class. they're also pretty annoying. i don't want to be that.

>>3650835

>>3650443

I answered all the questions when I went to school. The cool thing is the females want to make grades, so I was awarded plenty of tail during "study" sessions.

>>3650811

Well that's just demonstrably false.

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-scientific-fundamentalist/200903/beautiful-people-are-more-i
ntelligent-i

>inb4 hurr durr psychology isn't a science
>data doesn't lie, deal with it

>>3650856
>mfw

>>3650856
>females into grades
no

>>3650847

This. 99.9% of the questions I hear are just people that immediately don't get something so they raise their hand "HURR WUT HOW DID YOU DO DAT?" instead of just taking the time to stare at it for more than 5 seconds. And even if you don't get it immediately, write it down, go home and study it and then ask in office hours or something. It just seems like questions are a waste of class time I guess.

>>3650861
>psychology
>a science
>not neuroscience

In Calc II, while working a problem on the board, the professor asked the class what sin(0) is. A dozen people immediately answered, variously, 1, -1, 0, and undefined.

>mfw

>>3650861
didn't read it, saw url

that proves that beautiful people who are intelligent are not hated

what is your point?

nobody EVER gave richard feynman shit, because he is good looking. if anything they were fucking filled with mortal existential fear that someone good looking was such a fucking genius.

but EVERYONE hated that ugly faggot Perelman.

>>3650893
>feynman
>good looking
nope

>>3650893
>he didn't read it
>he thinks he knows what the article is about, let alone all the evidence presented therein for the thesis

>>3650908
forgot pic related

>>3650905
>feynman as a middle aged man
http://vega.org.uk/video/programme/45

he was a 6'2 stunningly handsome man.

i prefer to just sit and listen to lecture and take notes. i understand that some people learn better when they're interacting or whatever, but i don't. if they like it so much then they should answer. i just hate it when the professor goes out of their way to ask questions to the class as if they've been compelled to do it by the dean or whatever. i had one prof where they would ask a question and then just stand there silently for a legit 30 seconds waiting for people to answer.

>Professor asks difficult question
>Know the answer
>Purposely wait till some idiot tries to answer
>"Well, actuallly....."

>>3650473
This. If I have a reasonable answer, even if it ends up being wrong, I'll put it forward. That's the entire point of having a lecture format class. If you're not going to participate, the prof may as well be a youtube video

>>3650914

I had a professor last semester who seriously asked us what 0+0 is and waited for an answer.

it's one thing to encourage participation, it's another to treat us like we're fucking five.

>>3650915
>thus proving nobody looks down on the intelligent

>>3650923
what yo don't realize is probably only 1/4 of the people in the class were sure that 0 was the answer

>>3650876
>psychology
>soft science or pseudo science
>science
your move

>Professor asks difficult question
>Know the answer
>Sudden urge to shit
>Leave classroom
>I open the door
>Get on the floor
>Everybody walk the dinosaur

>Be in Grade 11 (University level) English class
>Teacher hasn't asked me to answer any questions in the whole first week
>She decides to point this out to the class
>She also tell's them that once I start to "warm-up" I will practically be running the class
>mfw I know the answer to the majority of the questions she asks
>mfw I have multiple pages of analysis from the books we're studying, each night.
>My teacher comes around each day to look at our homework, and skips past me because she assumes that I have it done every night
>3 months later I decide to answer a question, because I'm completely confident in my answer
>My teacher starts to jizz everywhere when I answer her question, and she tell's everyone to applaude
>I never said another word in that class

>>3650923
yea i've had one where it's like the prof wanted the class to be all excited and hanging on their every word, ready to chime in with answers to any questions thrown at them.
in prof's mind:
"what's 0+0=?"
>class yells in unison "ZERO!"
"how do you know that?"
>again in unison "zero is the additive identity! YAY!"

holy shit i just wanna casually take some notes and listen. half the time in class i'm running on no sleep and tired as fuck.

>>3650959
>"zero is the additive identity!

>implying that is the only or even the best answer to why 0+0=0

>>3650618
>does all maths he can get away with on dry erase boards
> has travel dry erase board the size of laptop in laptop bag

i know the feel bro.

>>3650986
>dry erase board
>instead of chalk

>>3651003
lawl chalk.
does anyone use chalk anymore? or has the chalk stock plummeted since the advent of dry erase boards.

i picture miners crying as chalk mines are shut down from lack of demand.

>This course is junk I already know
>I've known the answer every time.
>The teacher knows I know this shit cold.
>"Does anyone know the answer? Anyone?"
>I don't even raise my hand anymore.
>"Anon, tell them the answer."
>"That's a sling psychrometer."
>Feels Goodman

>>3651029
only every classy intellectual that has ever lived and ever will live.


>babby's using dry erase

oh lord

>>3651079
i like the babby's that think they are really the only one that knew the answer. the problem isn't that you don't want to speak loud, its that you're afraid you might be wrong. fuckass faggot. stop being delusional youngins

>Class arguing about something
>Know the answer
>Say nothing because I'd be a waste of my energy and I rather let then argue amongst themselves as I wait for them to finish

<span class="math">/alpha as fuck[/spoiler]

>>3651029
My math class used a chalk board.
>Go to school sick
>Eyes watering and coughing like a bitch all class
It was a very small room.

>>3650443
I did this all the time in most classes, but not because I was afraid of speaking in public, I simply didn't wanted to be perceived as the nerdy knows-it-all-fag and wanted to attract girls, I had good looks since I was 12, and acting 'normal' (not answering every question the teacher made) helped a lot to look 'approachable' in social interactions, the irony is that I wasn't confident enough to actually fuck a girl or have a 'relationship', so in the end I guess I only did it to become the handsome guy who's out of your league and won't fuck you even if you spread your pussy in front of him. I missed a lot of pussy from age 12 to 18.

Sorry for the assburgers.

>be in highschool
>teacher asks question
>I wanna go to the batroom
>raise my hand and ask for permission
>get permission
>on my way out of the class i answer teacher's question

One time the professor rhetorically asked a question, and I shouted the answer like a dumbass. He looked at me like I was an idiot, and damn it, I felt like one.

Maybe if nobody answers all the time professors everywhere will actually have to be interesting on their own instead of relying on stupid tricks that are supposed to be engaging but only end up wasting everyone's time.

>>3650888

Isn't sin(0) jesus because he died for our sins?

>>3651408
I laughed out loud.
Thank you.

>teacher asks question
>I know the answer, but in English
>live in Greece, lessons are all in Greek, I'm an expat
>My Greek is sufficient enough to converse easily
>so instead of giving a one word answer, I have to describe it, but usually I don't answer at all in case people laugh at me.
Fucking hell.