/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.9333701]

Stupidest thing you've ever witnessed in a classroom?

[Anonymous No.9333719]

>>9333701
an American teacher.

[Anonymous No.9333724]

>>9333719
I raise you

an American student

[Anonymous No.9333726]

>>9333701
me

[Anonymous No.9333729]

>>9333726
No me!

[Anonymous No.9333794]

>>9333724
They are not stupid. They are ignorant. They have not gained the knowledge to be stupid. Ignorance is easily cured with knowledge, but stupidity is having the knowledge and not using it.

[Anonymous No.9333807]

>nippon exchange student in sci class
>floating different liquids on top of each other in a test tube
>nipps turn
>adds adds liquid with an eyedropper
>lies test tube flat on table
>realises what she just did
>turns red

[Anonymous No.9333859]

>>9333794
no I literally meant the stupidest thing I've ever witnessed in a classroom was a student who was American

you rube cube

[Anonymous No.9333874]

>>9333701
>A bolder of a human female couldn't do 40-16
>The 11th fucking grade in an honors class

[Anonymous No.9333879]

>>9333874
boulder* lmao

[Anonymous No.9333885]

>>9333859
>not understanding the difference between stupidity and ignorance and why teachers are stupider than students.

[Anonymous No.9333917]

One of my teachers in HS, who went to college mind you, pronounced so many words wrong it hurt to hear.
E.g. fiefdom as fay-fdom and patrician as petrarchan

[Anonymous No.9333935]

>>9333807
sounds like that was pretty かわい and not cringe desu

[Anonymous No.9333967]

>In first year calculus course
>Learning about integrals
>Guy in the back asks how the prof got a number
>uh oh
>Class falls dead silent
>Prof asks what he is having trouble with
>He doesn't understand how he got the number he got from two fractions
>Professor tells him he just added them together and then says "on another note, you can drop this class with no penalty by before the 20th"
I would have killed myself on the spot if I was him tbqh

[Anonymous No.9333983]

>>9333701
Some guy dropped a bottle in a dead silent lecture and it fell all the way from the back seats down the steps and right near the professor feat spilling water everywhere on the ways down.

[Anonymous No.9334084]

>>9333885
>not understanding you are a little baby boom boom brain

[Anonymous No.9334095]

You know those metal spigots that they have in the sides of high school science classrooms where the gas for the Bunsen burners comes out? Someone thought it would be funny to put their mouth up to one of those and take a big inhalation of that gas. It did not go well for them. Ive never seen so much vomit.

[Anonymous No.9334096]

>>9333967
I am him but in my head
I’m literally retarded and can be on a roll for hours doing calculus and then all of a sudden forget how to do simple division
Should I kms

[Anonymous No.9334097]

Obligatory law exam in CS exam. You have to take some extra classes which are not STEM; most are pretty easy.

>have chink in class
>lecturer is some lawyer with some titles
>pretty easy to listen to, some nice interesting cases and regulations
>this chink is living here for 3 years already
>barely speaks our language, don't even attempt and just hangs out with other chinks
>exam is not in english so he basically have to be fluent in our language
>easiest class in degree; exam was literally MULTIPLE CHOICE
>chink came with 3 dictionaries in, and some other stuff
>even the prof said he never had someone taking longer than 10min for this exam
>gonk takes full 90min, barely finished

Showed me that the system and people which get degrees is VERY flawed when you can even pass classes with huge language barriers. makesuthink

[Anonymous No.9334098]

>>9334097
>Obligatory law exam in CS exam
Meant an obligatory law exam in a heavy math founded CS degree course.

[Anonymous No.9334127]

>>9334097
>taking graduate course on VLSI
>ask chinese guys simple question "where do we turn in the homework?"
>they don't understand
>proceed to ask them follow up questions in simple english
>becomes obvious they don't know any english at all
>realize there is absolutely no way they are following the lectures
how do they even get in the university? is TOEFL a complete joke? i also had a chemistry TA who couldn't speak any english. when you asked him something he'd just look at you until you gave up

[Anonymous No.9334150]

>>9334127
>>9334097
How did they get >2200 on sat/equivalent? If a gook who got worse test scores than that is at your school you have bigger problems.

[Anonymous No.9334151]

>>9333701
>sitting in classroom
>it's got lab stations along the walls desks in the middle
>not enough desks so a few people sit at the lab stations
>middle of a lecture
>Sudden Flash of Light
>BZZZAPT
>Asian kid screams
>He stuck a pair of forcepts into an electrical outlet
>entire class is silent
>teacher was this super nice gentle giant santa clause teddy bear looking motherfucker who never raised his voice or said anything harsh or mean
>grabs the kid by his ear
>drags him out of class
>we can hear him tearing this dumb bastard a new asshole all the way down the hall
>we're all rolling on the floor laughing
>teacher comes back 10 minutes later, all smiles
>picks up the lecture right where he left off
There was also a guy who legitimately and violently defended his belief that the sun is just an optical illusion.

[Anonymous No.9334157]

>power systems class
>professor writes an optimization problem on the board
>linearize the constraints to solve the problem
>professor asks if the power flow constraints are linear or nonlinear
>guys says linear

literally the biggest dumbass ever

[Anonymous No.9334162]

>>9334150
Imagine there are Universities in the world which don't need a high SAT/equivalent or formal interviews. In some countries the label of your University is not that important. Plus, a lot of of grades from China are heavily weird converted to our system. STEM degrees f.e. are pretty easy to get into, even in the "more popular Universities" since the Universities weed out anyway or not many going for STEM.

[Anonymous No.9334167]

>>9334151
If you’re Inuits by any chance he may have been right familam

[Anonymous No.9334183]

The teacher was talking to us about the importance of algorithms and how helpful computers can be (math major so no idea why) when he suddenly asks the whole class "is 5337 a prime number?" and this guy, with a confident smirk replies "yes, since it ends with 7 and 7 is not an even number" we had already took a basic number theory class and this guy trying to become a mathematician didn't knew the meaning of prime number, I couldn't believe it at the time, the teacher just turned to the other side of the class and kept talking.

[Anonymous No.9334206]

smdh @ non-whites

[Anonymous No.9334293]

>>9333701
One guy said Moscow was in Africa

[Anonymous No.9334438]

>>9334293
He meant London

[Anonymous No.9334440]

>>9334438
Quads get

[Anonymous No.9334441]

>>9334440
Quads get

[Anonymous No.9334442]

>>9334441
Quads get niggers

[Anonymous No.9334445]

Quads git

[Anonymous No.9334465]

>>9333719
>>9333724
https://www.usnews.com/education/best-global-universities/rankings

[Anonymous No.9334485]

>Be me
>Taking discrete mathematics
>Professor introduces the binomial theorem
>Book says x^n-k * y^k
>Professor writes x^k * y^k-1
>I raise my hand
"Professor you switched the exponents."
>Anon, its symmetrical.
"O-oh that makes sense."
>Never raise my hand again all semester.
How retarded am I?

[Anonymous No.9334515]

>>9334445

[Anonymous No.9335084]

>>9333719
Kek

[Anonymous No.9335085]

>>9333935
that's kawaii not kawaii. Kawai means dry or scary

[Anonymous No.9335093]

>>9334485
I've never taking a class above algebra 2( failed twice) I've also taught myself some logic.
I'm pretty sure I get it
K is 1
n stands for whatever number
Oh nevermind I don't get it
You are at least as retarded as I am

[Anonymous No.9335106]

I've already posted it but a roastie asked what a chromossome is during a genetics class

[Anonymous No.9335125]

>>9333701
someone in graduate algebra class asks professor if every element of a domain has an inverse.
How tf did he get here?

[Anonymous No.9335131]

>Taking EMT basic training
>First week lab was how to lift a stretcher from the 1960's
>Get 15 minute lecture on how to operate stretcher safely
>All you have to do is squeeze a lever and lift with proper form
>Black momma and I get partnered up
>Black momma takes the head because she's in charge
>She cannot figure out how to get the stretcher to lift
>Tell her all she has to do is squeeze the bar
>She simply cannot do it
>Instructor shows her
>Now the issue is she can't figure out how to keep the pressed down while lifting
>Instructor makes us switch places
>She still failed the lab because her lifting form was so poor
>She screams "I'm only here because I failed the nursing assistant entrance exam!"
>Instructor says "well that figures"
>Black momma runs out of the classroom never to be seen again.

[Anonymous No.9335213]

Not stupid but made me giggle
An exchange student in physics class talking about
>conversation of monumentum

[Anonymous No.9335235]

>>9333794
Alright, just like how you're ignorant of the situation that resulted in him calling an American student stupid. You don't actually know if this rando is stupid or not so shut the fuck up. You used the correct point in the wrong argument.

[Anonymous No.9335241]

>>9335085
>It's kawaii not kawaii
Holy shit you're dumb, you just "incorrected" him.
No he said kawai. Retard. It's literally not a word, he meant kawaii. You're thinking of kowaii but you can't even spell it, fucking lol

[Anonymous No.9335243]

>>9333874
What's a 40-16?
t. yuropoor

[Anonymous No.9335254]

>tfw decided to switch to physics after a law degree and still can't manage to relearn high school-level calculus
I'm pretty sure to be the laughing stock of my class

[Anonymous No.9335266]

>>9335243
24 anon.

[Anonymous No.9335278]

>>9335241
original guy here, thanks for correcting me. i appreciate it.>>9335243

[Anonymous No.9335279]

>>9335266
oh, i thought it was some sort of code for some test or something.
i don't know why.

[Anonymous No.9335312]

>>9335279
It means you're too smart to think of simple stuff desu.

[Anonymous No.9335316]

>>9333701
what is this /soc/ tier trash doing on /sci/? fuck off kids

[Anonymous No.9335607]

>>9335312
No, it means he's fucking dumb.

[Anonymous No.9335684]

>>9335607
rude desu