HARVARD SUCKS

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

Everybody sucks.

That article is just sad.  Not to mention, it uses 100 paragraphs just to state the little bastards at Sucks are entitled brats.

I had a ChemE professor who taught me a lesson about grading that I remember to this day.  He would give quizzes every other week, with a max score of 10.  On one quiz, I dropped a sign during the calculation.  Everything answer after that point was wrong, even though my methodology was perfect. I got a 6 out of 10. After class I went up to him to argue for a better grade using the argument that I knew what I was doing and I did everything right, I just dropped the sign.  His answer?  "You do that in real life and your plant doesn't work." 

It's not about the grade.  It's about the result.

Thorpe?

Yes indeed.

[marty]

Everybody sucks.

That article is just sad.  Not to mention, it uses 100 paragraphs just to state the little bastards at Sucks are entitled brats.

I had a ChemE professor who taught me a lesson about grading that I remember to this day.  He would give quizzes every other week, with a max score of 10.  On one quiz, I dropped a sign during the calculation.  Everything answer after that point was wrong, even though my methodology was perfect. I got a 6 out of 10. After class I went up to him to argue for a better grade using the argument that I knew what I was doing and I did everything right, I just dropped the sign.  His answer?  "You do that in real life and your plant doesn't work." 

It's not about the grade.  It's about the result.

Thorpe?

Yes indeed.

My favorite Thorpe story was embarrassing.  I over studied for one of the prelims. We had old tests to look at and there was one question I studied and studied but couldn't understand the solution.

That damn question was repeated on our test and I answered it correctly.  I received a good grade but felt like crap because I didn't understand that one effing question.

To this day I feel guilt.  Ray's long gone but his misplaced esteem for me that week still haunts.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

Everybody sucks.

That article is just sad.  Not to mention, it uses 100 paragraphs just to state the little bastards at Sucks are entitled brats.

I had a ChemE professor who taught me a lesson about grading that I remember to this day.  He would give quizzes every other week, with a max score of 10.  On one quiz, I dropped a sign during the calculation.  Everything answer after that point was wrong, even though my methodology was perfect. I got a 6 out of 10. After class I went up to him to argue for a better grade using the argument that I knew what I was doing and I did everything right, I just dropped the sign.  His answer?  "You do that in real life and your plant doesn't work." 

It's not about the grade.  It's about the result.

Thorpe?

Yes indeed.

My favorite Thorpe story was embarrassing.  I over studied for one of the prelims. We had old tests to look at and there was one question I studied yet studied but couldn't understand the solution.

That damn question was repeated on our test and I answered it correctly.  I received a good grade but felt like crap because I didn't understand that one effing question.

To this day I feel guilt.  Ray's long gone but his misplaced esteem for me that week still haunts.

I've got many Thorpe stories.  In all of them, he comes off as one of the most "human" of all my professors.