The way you write it it seems like you think that it was stupid for a professor to give you an A for such easy things. However I bet you learned a lot.
Because I mentioned the expression on his face? I didn't intend to convey that I was laughing at him for that - only that he was (understandably) surprised, and I enjoyed that.
I don't think it was stupid. The chemical equation balancing was highly relevant, and I did learn a lot from that. In some sense it was like "testing out" of the class - by mastering a homework challenge that was much harder than any of the class material.
The "million" challenge was interesting as well, and I did learn from it, but not about Chemistry. I knew I had the A less than halfway into the term, so I stopped doing chem homework. That was not optimal if the goal was to teach me Chemistry. In that sense, the first challenge was probably better.
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Did you enjoy working on those things?
The way you write it it seems like you think that it was stupid for a professor to give you an A for such easy things. However I bet you learned a lot.
Because I mentioned the expression on his face? I didn't intend to convey that I was laughing at him for that - only that he was (understandably) surprised, and I enjoyed that.
I don't think it was stupid. The chemical equation balancing was highly relevant, and I did learn a lot from that. In some sense it was like "testing out" of the class - by mastering a homework challenge that was much harder than any of the class material.
The "million" challenge was interesting as well, and I did learn from it, but not about Chemistry. I knew I had the A less than halfway into the term, so I stopped doing chem homework. That was not optimal if the goal was to teach me Chemistry. In that sense, the first challenge was probably better.