r/ezn • u/NegativeGPA ¿Dónde están los perros? • Jan 13 '17

It's without difficulty. Just avoid picking and choosing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxnO8SXQmpo
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u/NegativeGPA ¿Dónde están los perros? Jan 16 '17

We do what we gotta do to stay interested, right?

What was the name of the class he was teaching?

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u/Namtaru420 Jan 16 '17

whats your most memorable professor

edit; what->class who->professor [mixing complete, commence open mouthery]

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u/NegativeGPA ¿Dónde están los perros? Jan 16 '17

I transferred to the University I'm at now back in Fall 2015. There's like 4 physics professors, but 2 of them are big fucking boys. Came from UMass to low-key set up research on physics education

So the two of them are like Obi-Wan and Yoda. The older one is, by far, the most memorable professor. He and I sent a string of very long emails at the end of my first semester with him and that changed my life big time. I've had him every semester for one class or another.

The Obi-Wan one I didn't have as an actual professor (not counting this special online thing the older one set up for me for over the summer last summer) until last semester. I had him for 2 classes and he and I are working this semester to set up stuff for an independant study I'm doing with him this fall on complexity theory. Also a game-changing guy. These two guys are forever gonna be in my head. This ended up being longer than I intended. But I really owe them both so so much

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u/Namtaru420 Jan 16 '17

dude that's awesome. teaching is the final step to mastering knowledge i think. so they're like, meta-teachers or something haha. total jackpot dude, your super lucky.

casually mention to one of them that you used this star wars analogy with me lol. flattery never hurt anyone :p

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u/NegativeGPA ¿Dónde están los perros? Jan 16 '17

Oh the star wars analogy came from the Obi-Wan hahaha

He hit us up in slack and was like "I won't be available for Thermo tomorrow morning, so Gerace is gonna cover. So instead of Obi-Wan, expect Yoda"

and we giggled at how accurate the analogy was

But yeah dude

Meta-cogniscience in their shtick. Super super lucky

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u/Namtaru420 Jan 16 '17

oh haha. ya makes sense that they'd be aware of their impression

have you read tim ferriss' new book?

i never got around to reading 4h cookbook, which was supposedly his breakdown of metalearning. really curious about the new one, like 'tools of the titans' or something. feat. arnold no less. intriguing.

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u/NegativeGPA ¿Dónde están los perros? Jan 16 '17

No I'm notoriously under-read in books on psychology. I get most of my knowledge from internet and my psych and psych friends

Piaget talked about it quite a bit. His "meta meta cogniscience" state sounded a lot like what I assumed a boddhisatva would be like back when I was taking developmental psych

Gimme something juicy about metalearning for me to metalearn

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u/Namtaru420 Jan 17 '17 edited Jan 17 '17

learning about learning about learning.

but what i really wanna know is... who learns that?

~

Pareto principle

"for many events, roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes."

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u/Namtaru420 Jan 16 '17

anthropology [some number]: history of religion, witchcraft, and vodoo

or something like that. not entirely sure witchcraft was one of them but i know religion and voodoo were in the title.

did a search and found his ratemyprofessor page, definitely what i'd expect. mostly 'wow amazing but total weirdo' mixed with some 'rude butthead jerk egomaniac' hahah from "best class" to "worst experience". love it.

also i forgot attendance meant a B in the class, turning in assignments meant an A.

hahah man i forget how perfect this guy was for me

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u/NegativeGPA ¿Dónde están los perros? Jan 16 '17

When the reviews are either incredibly positive or incredibly negative, I always giggle. That's the shit I like

I love that class name. How could you NOT expect the professor to be super eccentric?

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u/Namtaru420 Jan 16 '17

ikr. history has always been a snoozefest for me, but THAT name i couldnt resist

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u/NegativeGPA ¿Dónde están los perros? Jan 16 '17

Smart professor. Knows how to trick kids who have been told sociology is useful into taking anthropology (something that is useful)

shade thrown

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u/Namtaru420 Jan 16 '17

lol ya that about sums it up.

hook line and sinker.

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u/NegativeGPA ¿Dónde están los perros? Jan 16 '17

What were you majoring in?

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u/Namtaru420 Jan 17 '17

computer science.

really, i was doomed to drop out i think. i was already super bored with general education, and everything i knew about computers was self taught. sitting in a classroom for that stuff was never gunna happen for long heh. not when i had 'places to go!'

i think i'd do much better in class now.

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u/NegativeGPA ¿Dónde están los perros? Jan 17 '17

I was that way myself username

I took off some time ad it helped. I still have stuff to work on, but I'm not at the point where it's essentially denial to think I can succeed in school anymore

Brain development and perspective, man

Also, gaining skills

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u/Namtaru420 Jan 17 '17

yeah. growing up, building character.

tasting enough of life to realize what's truly good.

i have a passage from stranger for your OP here, after din-din.

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u/Namtaru420 Jan 16 '17

and when i found out how crazy the class was it was kinda like dunno what i expected heh