I’m sure there are tons of university students who have felt the dreaded agony from a certain math and science program known as CAPA. You are an annoying, time consuming, useless assignment that does not help further my understanding of physics. You pop up every single week with more frustrating questions to drive us mad and offer no mercy when heaven forbid a number is one significant figure off. Sometimes you accept the correct answer and sometimes you don’t. You make me want to smash my computer. I understand that teaching hundreds of students is difficult…by WHY CAPA WHY?!
This article appears in Oct 16-22, 2008.
If you are one significant figure off then you are WRONG. If you are doing calculations on something like say a bomb don’t you want to be fuckin’ accurate. Take up chemistry instead, it’s obvious you don’t have the hunger for the other field.
ah, how I miss CAPAs. Seriously, it might not seem like it, but Dal is handing you a huge favor by giving you CAPAs. You can get 100%, most of the questions are just plug-and-chug, and the others you can get just by guessing logically. You’ll miss them when you’re in second year and you have only one try.