{"id":45,"date":"2002-03-15T22:04:43","date_gmt":"2002-03-15T22:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/wp\/?p=45"},"modified":"2006-10-07T09:03:09","modified_gmt":"2006-10-07T09:03:09","slug":"43-of-two-conversations-at-the-university-of-michigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=45","title":{"rendered":"[43] Of two conversations at the University of Michigan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><u>The following is a real life scenario.<\/u>Prof. Daniel Chan was teaching Calculus 3 with his British accent in Dennisson 260<\/p>\n<p>Prof Chan : A Kookabura flies with a semicircular projection. Find the vector of the kookabura if this point is (0, 1, 1).<\/p>\n<p>Anonymous student  : Hmm&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Prof Chan : Here is how you do it. First&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(He was showing the class the method of solving a particular 3D vector problem until&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>Prof Chan : Therefore, the answer is  + t. Any questions? Yeah, at the back&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Anonymous student : What&#8217;s a kookabura?<\/p>\n<p>Me : Hahahahahahaha&#8230;!!!<\/p>\n<p>Prof Chan : You&#8217;re supposed to ask me about the vector but well, a kookabura is&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><u>More recent real life conversation<\/u><\/p>\n<p>South Quad, Dining Hall 1.<\/p>\n<p>Khateeb : Okay, tomorrow you are going to wake up at 7.<\/p>\n<p>Unmesh : Seven? Are you crazy? Why?<\/p>\n<p>Khateeb : Because you are going to help me to find a place to live for the fall semester. We are going to knock on every door in Ann Arbor.<\/p>\n<p>Me : What? You don&#8217;t have to do that. You just have to check the paper for any vacancy. There are advertisements in there.<\/p>\n<p>Joey : Knock, knock, is there a brain in there? No, it&#8217;s empty.<\/p>\n<p>Khateeb : Grrrrr&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Me : Joey, you better run.<\/p>\n<p>(Joey looked scared.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is a real life scenario.Prof. Daniel Chan was teaching Calculus 3 with his British accent in Dennisson 260 Prof Chan : A Kookabura flies with a semicircular projection. Find the vector of the kookabura if this point is (0, 1, 1). Anonymous student : Hmm&#8230; Prof Chan : Here is how you do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}