Problem Sets
This weekend is going to be pretty much entirely devoted to the Discrete Math midterm (with a few breaks to program the Java assignment). So to get into the right mood, I started organizing my notes and homeworks. That's when I noticed that the papers in my bag have reached a critical mass.
So, I digitized my graded discrete math homework. The images for problem sets 1-3 are uploaded to flickr, and are also linked from the school page. If I have some time during the week, I'll scan and post the rest of them.
I can't imagine who could possibly be interested in this (unless you are the sort of person to do handwriting analysis, or try to figure out perverse aspects of my personality from the way I write my 7's) but there you go anyway.
13 Comments:
You have eerily uniform penmanship. It's like cursively typewritten.
Also, isn't this cheating? Some freshmen is going to be trolling for answers and find these for next semester.
This is a graduate level class (if you can believe it)... and most graduate students aren't resourceful enough to "troll for answers" as you say. I don't think the solutions make much sense without the given problem...
gnuplot baby. that plot is hot. (problem set 2). i was always a big advocate of gnuplot. nobody listens to me. you and your mathematica! bah!
I would've done it in LaTex, but that's just me. :)
so what's problem 59 all about? (i can't believe you managed to sneak a tom lehrer quote into a homework!!!) impressed though that the prof seems to really read the assignments. foreign concept here at columbia ya know. (also i kind of resent having to share this comments space with another kevin).
Maybe graduate students aren't resourceful enough to troll for answers, but undergrads majoring in IEOR sure are! Heck, the things I've seen those kids do. Now I teach and grad-study at MIT, and it's the same thing here, but I think that IEOR at Columbia is on an entirely different level. What is it with that department anyway?
Let me tell you a story circa 1999. I was a naïve computer science major in a Prob & Stat class full of IEOR majors. The professor tells us that we are allowed to bring one sheet of paper to the midterm exam, with any material that we want. Of course, I take a regular piece of paper, write some of the major formulas on it, and bring that with me. The professor called it a "cheat sheet" and the IEOR people apparently took that term literally. They scanned every problem set as well as every midterm exam going back three years, shrunk it down to tiny proportions, and pasted all of that on their one sheet. It was ridiculous. Of course I ended up on the bottom of the grading curve because I didn't have the idea to track down every exam that the professor has ever written and bring that with me to the midterm. IEOR majors are something else I tell ya!
I think the major lends itself to finding the most efficient solution to a problem, regardless of the situation. If the professor is so lazy that he doesn't change his exams year from year, I wouldn't blame the students for finding and using the information that's out there.
I think that everyone should be given the same chance and the same materials. It's not fair if half the class has previous exams and the other half doesn't.
I didn't realize that of all the posts, this is the one that would elicit so much chatter.
it's the IEOR wars. woo hoo! i have some stories too, but i'll hold back for now.
they are just jealous. ieor majors get all the best jobs. we are the most well rounded engineers.
IEOR majors are indeed the most well-rounded engineers. You can swing the major pretty much any which way you like - finance, math, computer science. Some IEOR majors even become Industrial Engineers!!! Go figure.
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