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- From: sichase@csa3.lbl.gov (SCOTT I CHASE)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: Richard P. Feynman
- Date: 23 Dec 1992 12:22 PST
- Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory - Berkeley, CA, USA
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- References: <1992Dec12.013103.29167@netcom.com> <1992Dec12.023859.14810@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <Dec.13.18.15.03.1992.6526@ruhets.rutgers.edu>
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- In article <Dec.13.18.15.03.1992.6526@ruhets.rutgers.edu>, bweiner@ruhets.rutgers.edu (Benjamin Weiner) writes...
- >
- >Sorry Dale, couldn't resist. To stay close to drifting from the subject,
- >I was wondering why physicists often feel compelled to put down engineers,
- >and I thought of a few reasons:
- >
- >2. Physics grad students hate TA'ing the "physics for engineers" course.
-
- Personally, I hate teaching "physics for people who don't give a damn
- about physics." This usually does not include engineers. At MIT, most
- of the engineering students were as interested as I was in our required
- physics classes.
-
- As a grad student I TA'ed a class at UCB which is essentially "physics
- for pre-meds." Though many students just didn't give a damn, there were
- enough that did to keep me busy and interested.
-
- -Scott
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- Scott I. Chase "It is not a simple life to be a single cell,
- SICHASE@CSA2.LBL.GOV although I have no right to say so, having
- been a single cell so long ago myself that I
- have no memory at all of that stage of my
- life." - Lewis Thomas
-