Cubing in lectures

[a small kitten]

Most people are righty and most people use their left hand for OH. I think. Should have said "assuming your OH hand isn't your dominant writing hand" though. Maybe that's better.

 

[Anthony]

Most people are righty and most people use their left hand for OH. I think.

Yeah, but not all. Just sayin'.

 

[hawkmp4]

Most people are righty and most people use their left hand for OH. I think.

Yeah, but not all. Just sayin'.

Yeah, but it's an assumption that's more likely to be correct than not.

 

[Lorken]

Cheers guys for the tips. Thing is, 2 of my lecturers talk for the entire 1 hour time, and have slide shows of uninterrupted text that go on forever, like 1/4 people only turn up to these, turning up is a big deal. cool thing is: WCA comp in that same lecture room in ~3 weeks!!! My first comp ever as well, hopefully I can break 30 by then

 

[Ethan Rosen]

And somehow you don't see how cubing in a lecture hall is extremely disrespectful to everyone around you? I agree with Statue-- take a computer and do whatever you want on that. It's far less disrespectful and distracting.

 

[Anthony]

Most people are righty and most people use their left hand for OH. I think.

Yeah, but not all. Just sayin'.

Yeah, but it's an assumption that's more likely to be correct than not.

No, it's simply not correct. He implied that as long as you're right handed you can take notes while doing OH. I'm one of quite a few right handed people who do righty OH, therefore disproving his assumption.

 

[a small kitten]

Do I still get an A?

 

[qqwref]

I strongly suggest computer cubes. It sounds like typing, and plenty of people will have their laptops in lecture anyway. And, if you ever NEED to take notes, your just have to click on the other window

Of course, if you're not learning anything from lecture or you don't care, it's probably better to just not go. Of course that isn't always an option...

 

[Dene]

Most schools have a set of general education courses students have to complete in conjunction with classes that satisfy their major requirements.

In the US, sure.

 

[a small kitten]

What do you guys do in NZ?

 

[hawkmp4]

Most people are righty and most people use their left hand for OH. I think.

Yeah, but not all. Just sayin'.

Yeah, but it's an assumption that's more likely to be correct than not.

No, it's simply not correct. He implied that as long as you're right handed you can take notes while doing OH. I'm one of quite a few right handed people who do righty OH, therefore disproving his assumption.

Sorry- you're right. I was talking about the assumption that someone who OH cubes uses their left hand. My mistake.

 

[Dene]

What do you guys do in NZ?

You mean to say, "What do universities do throughout the rest of the world?" and the answer is, we don't have GEs.

EDIT: Actually I can't speak for anywhere other than New Zealand, but I have never heard about other countries doing it.

 

[lilkdub503]

DO NOT CUBE DURING LECTURES!!! That's a huge no-no right there. I did that, it didn't turn out too well. You tend to not focus too well, then you space out. Keep your fingers active with the simple penspinning tricks.

 

[PeterNewton]

Back in my parent's day they had to takea few humanities or arts courses even if they were doing something like compsci, but whenever i look up a science-based major (engineering, nanotech, compsci etc), there are usually 1 or 0 irrelevant courses. i'm in canada so this is the case in the two best universities here, waterloo and toronto.
bolded wrd wasnt there b4, sorry lewisj :rolleyes:

 

[LewisJ]

Back in my parent's day they had to takea few humanities or arts courses even if they were doing something like compsci, but whenever i up a science-based major (engineering, nanotech, compsci etc), there are usually 1 or 0 irrelevant courses. i'm in canada so this is the case in the two best universities here, waterloo and toronto.

All that school you skipped is reflecting in your ability to compose comprehensible sentences. Also, you can't objectively say what the two best universities are in Canada - there are a dozen that all can fill the spot just depending on how you judge them.

 

[PeterNewton]

Back in my parent's day they had to takea few humanities or arts courses even if they were doing something like compsci, but whenever i up a science-based major (engineering, nanotech, compsci etc), there are usually 1 or 0 irrelevant courses. i'm in canada so this is the case in the two best universities here, waterloo and toronto.

All that school you skipped is reflecting in your ability to compose comprehensible sentences. Also, you can't objectively say what the two best universities are in Canada - there are a dozen that all can fill the spot just depending on how you judge them.

You'd be surprised to know I took grade 12 english in grade 10 and completed the course with the 2nd highest mark in the school that year.
Mind telling me what that dozen is? BC, Mcmaster and Mcgill are pretty good, but outside canada, few people would recognize something other than toronto, waterloo or mcgill.

 

[daniel0731ex]

Back in my parent's day they had to takea few humanities or arts courses even if they were doing something like compsci, but whenever i up a science-based major (engineering, nanotech, compsci etc), there are usually 1 or 0 irrelevant courses. i'm in canada so this is the case in the two best universities here, waterloo and toronto.

All that school you skipped is reflecting in your ability to compose comprehensible sentences. Also, you can't objectively say what the two best universities are in Canada - there are a dozen that all can fill the spot just depending on how you judge them.

You'd be surprised to know I took grade 12 english in grade 10 and completed the course with the 2nd highest mark in the school that year.

that does not make yourself look any better from the post you made.

 

[Senkoy]

I think here in the US we have to take ridiculous amounts of general ed because High Schools are garbage here. I'm going to a jr college, been going full time for 2 years and still gotta take 3 more years of crap (mostly math) before i can transfer for my major. I'm a comp sci major and they're making me take 8 math classes. I did get behind pretty bad in HS so part of it is my fault, but even if i hadn't i would still need to take 5. That's absurd.

But anyway, even if the classes are boring (and i agree they can get pretty bad, my anthropology class was painfully boring) I still think it's rude to the professor and those around you to cube. Like others said, virtual cube or don't bother showing up.

 

[Whyusosrs?]

Back in my parent's day they had to takea few humanities or arts courses even if they were doing something like compsci, but whenever i up a science-based major (engineering, nanotech, compsci etc), there are usually 1 or 0 irrelevant courses. i'm in canada so this is the case in the two best universities here, waterloo and toronto.

All that school you skipped is reflecting in your ability to compose comprehensible sentences. Also, you can't objectively say what the two best universities are in Canada - there are a dozen that all can fill the spot just depending on how you judge them.

You'd be surprised to know I took grade 12 english in grade 10 and completed the course with the 2nd highest mark in the school that year.

My BS detector just exploded :O

 

[LewisJ]

Back in my parent's day they had to takea few humanities or arts courses even if they were doing something like compsci, but whenever i up a science-based major (engineering, nanotech, compsci etc), there are usually 1 or 0 irrelevant courses. i'm in canada so this is the case in the two best universities here, waterloo and toronto.

All that school you skipped is reflecting in your ability to compose comprehensible sentences. Also, you can't objectively say what the two best universities are in Canada - there are a dozen that all can fill the spot just depending on how you judge them.

You'd be surprised to know I took grade 12 english in grade 10 and completed the course with the 2nd highest mark in the school that year.
Mind telling me what that dozen is? BC, Mcmaster and Mcgill are pretty good, but outside canada, few people would recognize something other than toronto, waterloo or mcgill.

You've already gotten almost halfway there!
UBC
McMaster
McGill
UT
UWaterloo

Let me just think of 7 more off the top of my head.
UMontreal
UAlberta
Queen's
UCalgary
UVictoria
Simon Fraser
Acadia

Pretty much all Canadian Universities are reasonably good, with most being better in some ways than most of the others. You can't name two of them as simply the best. Just because people don't recognize a name doesn't mean it isn't a good school.

Oh, and I almost forgot - if you can compose good sentences when people challenge you to, why not just do it all the time?

I think here in the US we have to take ridiculous amounts of general ed because High Schools are garbage here. I'm going to a jr college, been going full time for 2 years and still gotta take 3 more years of crap (mostly math) before i can transfer for my major. I'm a comp sci major and they're making me take 8 math classes. I did get behind pretty bad in HS so part of it is my fault, but even if i hadn't i would still need to take 5. That's absurd.

But anyway, even if the classes are boring (and i agree they can get pretty bad, my anthropology class was painfully boring) I still think it's rude to the professor and those around you to cube. Like others said, virtual cube or don't bother showing up.

CS is among the closest majors you can get to a math major without actually being a math major. The fields overlap frequently and are rather tight knit.