Good analog and good digital converge?

[Joe]

It is generally recognised that one only needs an IQ of about 115 - 120 to get a 1st class honours degree, the rest is work.

I've never had my IQ measured (maybe at school; we did some IQ-type tests, but if so, I can't remember/wasn't told the results). When I did my first degree, many years ago now, only two of my cohort got firsts. One was clearly a brilliant scholar, but prone to emotional ups and downs. The other was a quiet bloke (he was in my tutorial group for two years, and I don't remember him ever saying anything) who obviously just grafted away. I'm a mouthy Northerner, and quite happy to ramble on in seminars and tutorials if no-one else says anything, but I'm not so keen on hard work, which is probably why I didn't get a first.

As far as academics are concerned, as well as my degree and post-grad studies, I worked with them for 20-odd years. They, like the general population, were a very mixed bunch. Some were your typical absent-minded professor types, whose interpersonal skills were, to put it politely, limited; others were self-publicists, but most were genuinely humble about their own abilities, and saw their achievements, up to and including Nobel prizes, as very much the result of team efforts rather than their own brilliance.

[paulf-2007]

A goddamn fence-sitter.

Now that is something I am not. I won't be drawn into this intellect/academic discussion, all I will say is that it's not difficult to study and pass exams, but having common sense is not something many of these people that think they are clever have little of.

[Joe]

all I will say is that it's not difficult to study and pass exams, but having common sense is not something many of these people that think they are clever have little of.

I think the second part of the above has too many negatives. As written, it doesn't make sense!

[Macca]

. I'm a mouthy Northerner, and quite happy to ramble on in seminars and tutorials if no-one else says anything, but I'm not so keen on hard work, which is probably why I didn't get a first.

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That's me too. When I was an undergraduate you would always have the bulk of the people who would sit there and say nothing whilst only one or two would contribute. One time due to other factors I had not done the required reading but figured I would go along anyway, take a back seat in the discussion and let someone else take the strain for a change.

Of course the tutor was used to me having a lot to say so when she couldn't get two words out of the rest of them she turned to me for contributions. My ignorance was exposed and I got a bollocking for not doing the prep. I mean, how is that fair?

[Joe]

That's me too. When I was an undergraduate you would always have the bulk of the people who would sit there and say nothing whilst only one or two would contribute. One time due to other factors I had not done the required reading but figured I would go along anyway, take a back seat in the discussion and let someone else take the strain for a change.

Of course the tutor was used to me having a lot to say so when she couldn't get two words out of the rest of them she turned to me for contributions. My ignorance was exposed and I got a bollocking for not doing the reading. I mean, how is that fair?

Amazingly, almost exactly the same thing happened to me. I 'forgot' about a seminar, but the tutor nabbed me in the bar and dragged me along. The usual silence from everyone, so I started babbling away. The tutor let me carry on for a few minutes, then said 'Have you actually read this text, Joe?' to which I replied 'No, but then I wasn't intending to come to the seminar'.

[paulf-2007]

I think the second part of the above has too many negatives. As written, it doesn't make sense!

Haha, I blame memory loss, I meant much of rather than little of, as you said too many negatives. Failed again

[Macca]

Amazingly, almost exactly the same thing happened to me. I 'forgot' about a seminar, but the tutor nabbed me in the bar and dragged me along. The usual silence from everyone, so I started babbling away. The tutor let me carry on for a few minutes, then said 'Have you actually read this text, Joe?' to which I replied 'No, but then I wasn't intending to come to the seminar'.

Seminars were optional for us so I never bothered. Tutorial attendance were 'compulsory' but you could get away with missing about 1 in 3 without anyone being bothered.

I went to one lecture and it was a complete waste of time, just a bloke rambling for about an hour, so I never bothered after that. Academia really is money for old rope.

[Pharos]

My criticisms were a result of experience in universities.

I have worked for much of my life with graduate (and more) engineers and scientists, and found most great to get on with, and a wonderful team effort and atmosphere often prevailed in the working environment.

[anthonyTD]

Hi All,
Only read through some of this thread, and not sure its been mentioned but; whether digital, or Analog front end, ALL comes out Analog at the end, ie; the speaker is an analog device, and therefore; it reproduces All signal it is given in Analog, so, what ever theories one can come up with" as to what makes the diffrence between Analog, and Digital replay, just remember, you hear it all in Analog!

[walpurgis]

Stands to reason. Ears are analogue devices.