Textbooks
Textbooks
I've noticed that textbooks of my engineering syllabus start explaining any topic in the following format.
1. Definition of the topic.
2. If math or physics, an equation of the following definition which is basically an english-to-math conversion of the above definition, with an occasional derivation starting from an arbitrary starting point.
3. An example, again a very simple example which basically is equivalent to rephrasing the definition.
It feels like in order to stick to the syllabus, the textbooks simply provide material to answer questions in tests, rather than explaining the topic in a proper fashion and allowing us to form our own answers.
Perhaps I am referring to the wrong textbooks and should switch to a different textbook. There’s also the possibility that I am simply not understanding this stuff. Anyways, YT will be my buddy until then!
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LOL I guess I'm 20 too
u know whats wild. everyone on here like 20 and when i first joined everyone was like 14 15. u ask anybody n they been here for years. nobody new on here. staff locked the doors n were all Stuck Inside
I’ve been waiting all year to post this.
It won’t work, but I’m into it!
Could we crash tumblr if we all posted the word "crash" on the 1st of april 2022, 12:35 EST?
Same vibes, same feelings... 😌💙
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Star Trek (the original series) 2x01
For those of you who didn't watch Star Trek: Spock thought he had killed James T. Kirk, the Captain of the USS Enterprise (Spock is the Sciene Officer of the ship and the First Commander), but he survived - thanks to Dr Leonard "Bones" McCoy who is a Senior Medical Officer on the Enterprise. Spock is half-human (his mother was from the Earth) and half-Vulcan (Vulcan is a name of his planet - and the race there). Vulcans are tactile telepaths and empaths - meaning each time they touch someone they can read their minds and feel their emotions. That's why they always try to avoid unnecessary contacts - and Spock always emphasise how proud he is to be a Vulcan - he was raised in a rigid and sometimes severe Vulcanian culture which suppresses all the emotions in a person. Pure logic - that's what all the Vulcans aspire to. But Spock is not like that - he shows his emotions from time to time, and Jim Kirk is the only person on the whole ship who is allowed to touch him and hug him whenever he wants. Even when the situation doesn't require that. 😉😏 In times of life-or-death situations or when Spock feels sentimental, he calls his Captain "Jim" which Kirk not-so-secretly adores. 😌 No wonder these two charachters are shipped lol. The ship's name is Spirk, and I like it so much.
Later, Spock called Jim Kirk "my t'hy'la" which translates from Vulcan as "my friend, my brother, my lover." So... They are almost a canonic couple. 😉
Fun fact: this TV show was shot in the mid 1960s when the situation with representation was much worse than today. So it was very bold move from TPTBs of the show - and from William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy who played Captain Kirk and The First Officer Spock respectively. They had an AMAZING chemistry on the show, and they were best friends in real life. "To boldly go where no man has gone before," huh. I like this line from the show's intro. It can be interpreted in one way or another.
I wanted to add videos to this post but alas, Tumblr says it allows to put only one video per one post. Damn you, Tumblr. I spent so much time making them.
…it is still 7:34am 😂
