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discntnt_irny_srcsm

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1. I confess...
Fri Nov 23, 2012, 02:29 PM
Nov 2012

...in college I did my best (not that it was difficult) to avoid women teaching math. In my first freshman year Calculus course about 10 weeks into the course we started a type of problems that my Physics class had been working on since week 3. When I encountered a problem of this type on a math test, I wrote down a formula I had memorized for Physics and solved getting the right answer but losing 3/4 of the points for not deriving the formula. Probably had nothing to do with the teacher's gender but I've matured since then.

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