tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13869903.post808490877976657946..comments2024-03-28T04:15:44.459-05:00Comments on nanoscale views: Rant - updated.Douglas Natelsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13340091255404229559noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13869903.post-40945214689169605682008-10-11T17:47:00.000-05:002008-10-11T17:47:00.000-05:00After reading both your post and the comment by an...<BR> After reading both your post and the comment by anonymous, I feel the need to do some of my own venting.<BR/><BR/>I'm a physics major at a major Texas university. Right now I'm a little frustrated with how our college of science operates versus how our business school does things. To hear that these differences carry on over to the real world is giving me some pause for thought <BR/><BR> One of my friends is taking an advanced mechanics course. Class average was about a 60 for the first exam and there was no curve. There are some students who are taking it for the third time. I'm taking an undergrad PDE course that for some reason is being taught at a graduate level. Class avg on the first exam <B> was a 55 with a curve.</B> I have a friend who is a finance major. In his statistics class, the class avg on the 1st exam was around a 60. Guess what? There was a curve and <B> if you had above a 60 you got an A on the test. </B> Inflating grades at a business school is like giving a blank check to all these firms that screwed up <BR/><BR>I have another friend who is taking quantum mechanics 2 for the <B>third time.</B> Is this how the real world works? Do business majors get easy A's and economic bailouts while physics majors get the shaft? <BR/><BR/> <A HREF="http://www.businessweek.com/bschools/content/apr2005/bs20050419_8678_bs001.htm" REL="nofollow"> </A>wolfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10681228542320326100noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13869903.post-90221319544539744172008-10-09T13:03:00.000-05:002008-10-09T13:03:00.000-05:00Simply going by the numbers, we as a nation seem t...Simply going by the numbers, we as a nation seem to care by about 1-2 orders of magnitude more about these financial institutions than the NSF/DOE/etc. The impact of these institutions versus that of science on the economy/general well-being is debatable -- see "Gathering Storm" etc.<BR/><BR/>And people are surprised when some bright undergrad in physics goes into finance instead of academia -- with perks like these, who wouldn't!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com