{"id":1043,"date":"2005-08-25T10:36:07","date_gmt":"2005-08-25T17:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=1043"},"modified":"2005-08-25T10:36:07","modified_gmt":"2005-08-25T17:36:07","slug":"comic-relief-on-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2005\/08\/25\/comic-relief-on-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Comic Relief on Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quotes which I put on the final for my quantum computing class:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;I didnt&#8217; fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.&#8221; &#8212; Benjamin Franklin<br \/>\n&#8220;People will accept your idea much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.&#8221;&#8211;David H. Commins\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Unfortunately I didn&#8217;t put a comic on the test.  It always seemed that the exams I took in intro level physics and chemistry courses at Caltech, or the ones I saw in similar courses at Berkeley, always had either a Far Side or a Calvin and Hobbes comic on them.  In fact, I have a conjecture about this.  I&#8217;m convinced that you can identify the exam by the comic on the front of the exam.  Far Side: physics.  Calvin and Hobbes: chemistry.  But this just may be a result of my local experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quotes which I put on the final for my quantum computing class: &#8220;I didnt&#8217; fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.&#8221; &#8212; Benjamin Franklin &#8220;People will accept your idea much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.&#8221;&#8211;David H. Commins Unfortunately I didn&#8217;t put a comic on &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2005\/08\/25\/comic-relief-on-finals\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Comic Relief on Finals&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}