Re: Solving Homework in Pairs

On Thu, May 31, 2007, Shlomi Fish wrote about "Re: [hackers-il] Solving Homework in Pairs":
> When my friend and partner for many courses took the Mathematics department 
> Set Theory course, we realised that the scope of the exercise was too big for 
> both of us. So we ended up solving it together (in a synergical way) and my 
> friend wrote the solution (because he had a better hand-writing) and we 
> handed it together. It was less work than handing two identical solutions him 
> with his hand-writing, and mine with my crappy hand-writing. But we each got 
> only half the credit.

The professor must have thought to himself, "God! What planet are these guys
from?"... He didn't tell you that you can hand-in exercises together, and
yet you did. You admit that each of you were unable to do the exercise alone,
and that you tried to cut down on the amount of work - so can you really be
surprised that you got half the grade? Should you get the same grade as people
who did all the work on their own?

> My hand writing is another thing I'm frustrated about. When I came to the 
> Technion my hand-writing was pretty bad, and it only deteriorated. Part of it 

Did you ever try to work on this issue? I never wrote - using paper and
pencil - so much as I did in the technion. I literally wrote thousands of
pages, finished more than one eraser, and till this day (13 years after
finishing my BA) I have a small "yabelet" on my hand where I held the pencil.
Writing is part of your studies, and there's nothing you can do about it
(nowadays you can use the computer more, and hand all exercises printed,
but still you'll need to write on paper during tests). Better learn to deal
with it, as much as you can (given your medical condition) rather than fight
it...



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