Ha! I did so bad in my undergrad Topology course, the prof took me (and a handful of others) aside and said: "I want to fail all of you. But I don't want to disrupt your degree plans. What grade do you need in order to maintain your path?"
Everyone else answered with "A" or "B". Me, being the idiot I am, answered more honestly with "D". I had good enough grades everywhere else that I probably could have gotten an F and it wouldn't have mattered much. And I literally never gave a sh¡t about grades, anyway. But I wasn't willing to say I could take an F in stride. That class was very influential ... proving things by yourself up at the chalkboard, etc. But, reflectively, I think he was simply a bad teacher. They exist. There were only ~10 of us in the class and he wanted to fail ~4 of us. It was nice of him to make the offer he did. But maybe it wasn't merely nice. Maybe he knew he was a bad teacher? On 7/26/21 11:09 AM, Frank Wimberly wrote: > I took a course at Berkeley that covered most of this set theory as it was > understood as of 1965, including independence of the continuum hypothesis and > ZFC. I decided to just take CH on faith. I believe that course influenced > me more than any other even though I got a C--the only one I got in any upper > division math course, I think. -- ☤>$ uǝlƃ - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/
