I started this blog as a freshman in college, wanting to jot down a, at the time, fascinating formula I derived to get around an asinine coding problem (which apparently, is still helpful to this day). I wrote multiple posts that essentially amounted to philosophy on how to be a good student/how not to be a good student, enchanted with the idea that I saw past the fog that no one else could.
I still think what I wrote then is true. Students, above all else, do a terrible job being honest with themselves. This goes in multiple directions, really. Poor professors and bad textbooks are just accepted without ever considering alternatives. Hundreds of textbooks are available online for any subject as well as the lecture notes and videos of other professors, yet go unused. Students also are not honest in what they do know and what they do not know, essentially wasting their time studying.
Okay. That’s the gist of it. Time to review some posts.
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; this was after the course had their one week crash course in linear algebra. Curricula aside, I found the lecture quite hard to follow. Having already learned the material, this difficulty was not from the topics, but the structure of the lecture. The lesson featured all the important (at least, what I consider important) parts of a lecture: motivation, derivation, explanation and examples, but the order made it impenetrable. There are undoubtedly many ways to poorly structure a lesson. Does there exist a correct way? I think so.
The smartest stupid person 