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Daniel_Newby on July 5, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: What happened to studying?

"No one expects them to create things, that's left to those nuts like me (someone said this to me point-blank)."

I distinguish the two types of students by whether or not they need calculus to proceed. The ones who don't are just serving time.

abalashov on July 6, 2010 [–]

As a person of humanities background, I find that criterion questionable. :-)

Daniel_Newby on July 6, 2010 | [–]

How about we say the ones not studying calculus are 85% likely to be just serving time. ;-)

How would you determine which university students are just there to get a degree, any degree?

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