Teacher Cancels Class Because of Portal 2 Launch
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Okay thanks! I got a little thrown off because my source listed it in Km. It still sounds weird to me that 186,000 miles per second is equal to 300,000,000 meters per second. I really wish they would have just taught us (people from the States) metrics to begin with. I really need to study conversions more but there is a lot of other stuff that's just more interesting to me. Oh. Also I'm kinda' playing Portal 2 at the moment! 80DCry Wolf said:No, m in this instance means meters. 1 km = 1000 m, thus 300,000 km/s = 300,000,000 m/smikev7.0 said:Did you mean Kilometers (Km) per second? That velocity is listed (Source: About Time, Paul Davies) as 300,000 Km per second.restoshammyman said:in case you really want to know. C is the speed of light. 300,000,000 m/sHankMan said:So THAT's what the C stands for!Mackheath said:
It's been bugging me for years.
There all fixed. God it would be good if we all just used metrics....y'know for Science! ^^
I agree. Why is it never situationally dependent? I mean if you have all your homework in, are studying hard, and feel confident about your exams then why not have a day of celebration for something as cool, educational, and thought provoking as Portal?Doctor Glocktor said:
Heck I took two days off for Red Alert 3 and my teachers knew it and didn't care. As long as I maintained my 3.85 or better they let me do pretty much whatever I wanted. God I love my teachers....
Heh, I plan my vacation around release dates. When Fallout: New Vegas got released, I had already fixed a week off work, copious amounts of alcohol and general supplies. All I really needed was the game, which I picked up day one of the vacation. That was a good week, too bad I can't remember all of it.
That was a good week, too bad I can't remember all of it.
What do you mean,they are throwing away their education for SCIENCE!!! =DGeneric Gamer said:
But yeah,I feel happy for those children,they have Portal 2.
Doctor Glocktor said:
FamoFunk said:
I'm not sure about the other "negative Nancys", but for me, it isn't about individuals skipping class or work for a game. Like I said, if you can handle missing the class, that's fine for you; you have makeup work or need to hunt down lecture notes, that's fine.mikev7.0 said:
My point is that this teacher applied that to all of their students. What about the students who couldn't care less about Portal 2 who now have to rearrange their week to come to the makeup session?
Where are the consequences for the students who did take the day off? Not consequences like punishment, but the simple consequences; miss a day, makeup work, loss of participation points, missed lecture? Nowhere, they get their cake (lie or no), and eat it too.
I think alot of people could take this the wrong way, assuming that the teacher is disregarding his responsibilty. But actually this was the best thing for him/her to do.
Seeing as there is no point having a class if such a large number of people are going to be 'ill'. Thumbs up to Valve for making a game great enough that the students don't care.
Seeing as there is no point having a class if such a large number of people are going to be 'ill'. Thumbs up to Valve for making a game great enough that the students don't care.
I think this teacher is trying to bluff to get out of teaching the class so he could go play portal 2.
I just saw that. Gross. >_<Tulks said:
Anyway... this is some silly news. I am amused. Though... it does make me wonder. The only time I can think of where I was "sick" due to a game coming out was when the Wrath expansion came out for WoW, since I was rushing to 80. It didn't come up and it wasn't a problem since I just turned in my assignment early, but... I wonder if that professor knew what I was really up to. XD
Even if it wasn't an English class, that's a little reprehensible.Tulks said:
Anyhow... gonna nit pick: that's an email, not a text.
