What's the most brainlet question you've ever heard asked in a lecture?

>why?
the worst part is he was in an advanced class.

Kek.

Our professor said sometimes "No, it _probably_ will not."
Exam time coming. The topics he said wouldn't be on the exam are primary the focus of the exam and 3/4 of all students raged and cried gud. Based prof

>prof says yes
>it ends up not being on the fucking exam

what did he mean by this?

>t. brainlet

"Stop bothering me with that, cunts, just study the damn thing."

he meant "master everything"

>"If DNA has bases, then where are its acids?"

3rd year biology student

Well, answer him. Where are its acids?

Is this [insert class]?
>No
*Gets up*
Sorry, excuse me, sorry, whoops almost fell, sorry

This actually happened to me in last high school year during a history class.

>Teacher talking about colonialism in Latin
>Says something about the Viceroyalty of Brazil
>Hot blonde raises her hand
>Asks who is the current king of Brazil
>top kek

you know how tight the seats are? it's not my fault i'm not a fucking manlet.

Are Americans really this stupid?

This

It's a brainlet question because 90% of the time the answer is "it's in the syllabus you fucking moron"

Why was the teacher speaking Latin?

just about every memorylet moment I've ever seen in history classes is done by bio and math majors. had one retard ask the professor why socialists don't just use horses instead of trains and buses

Lol this is fucked up on multiple levels

Americans education is basically handed to you once you pay the $$$. It would't even suprise me when some Professors are giving out 1:1 example problems and questions relevant to the exam

It's funny cuz it's true

Depending on your department

I meant Latin America

I don't ask questions in lecture, because my asp is too potent.

However, I've made an ass of myself in online classes plenty of times. I think the best was in an online trig class. I'd just learned about the domain quirks of trig functions, how there are infinitely many angles with the same sine/cosine values, and if you want to be specific, you need to restrict your domain.

Well, my numberphile-loving freshman brain got thinking about that, and after a while I realized that you can generate a one-to-one sine function by graphing it as a helix in three dimensions. Look at it end on, and it's like you're looking at a unit circle, look at it from the top and side, and that's your sine and cosine.

So I held onto that for a day or two, then one night I had a few whiskeys and suddenly it seemed like a good idea to post about it on the class discussion boards. So I did.

Except I was a little more lit than I realized, and the post ended up being incomprehensible. My dick of an instructor replied sarcastically, saying he had no idea what I was trying to say, and either I was way off track, or I'd stumbled on a new math concept that I should publish ASAP, either way I should keep it off his boards.

I was just drunk enough to believe I'd found a new theorem. Until I woke up the next morning and reread it all. And seriously considered dropping out to hide from my shame.

>community colleges woes
lmao

I'm glad I'm not the only person like this

Probably meant Latin America

>in chemistry 1, not intro to chemistry

>"why aren't both letters capitalized?"
>"Is it called electronegativity because electrons are negative?"
>"what does plum pudding have to do with atoms?"
>"a metal and non metal make ionic bonds, covalent is when two nonmetals bond, but what do you call metallic atoms bonding?"

I know, I was doing a le funny joke.

My calculus 2 class had a study guide for the final exam which had the same problem types in equal proportions to the exam itself for the long answer problems.

"What is basis" after a semester of linear algebra

They are. I was in a 4th year comsci where the professor gave out a practice exam that had solutions on another page. The exam was exactly the same but with different numbers, It was open note final exam too, yet somebody still failed that class.

someone computer 'different architectures' meant compiling for desktop or laptop

I just want to pass my classes and get on with my degree. Why do I have to waste my time ""learning"" (memorizing) extraneous garbage in Math if it'll
1) Not even be on an exam (waste of time studying)
2) Not help me in anyway after I'm done with the class or after graduation and only hurt me if I don't get an A.

Fuck Math. I didn't major in math or engineering so why is so much of THIS TRASH REQUIRED FOR MY MAJOR AND RUINING MY GPA?

>What's the equation for a unit circle?

Seriously, how do these people get in?

> physics class
> greek letter tau referring to torque is mentioned
> "isn't that that thing with like 2 pi radians in a circle"

I can tell he watched the numbercuck video about an alternative pi that is circumference divided by diameter instead of radius called tau

The sperg who asked actually gained street cred from me at least because I know only real OG autists watch numberphile

art student go embarass yourself at

all of your questions sound like intro to chemistry

Professor:
>So, then we get the famous Navier-Stokes Equations.
>This system has never been solved since it's conception and is believed unsolvable.
Student:
>If it's unsolvable, doesn't that mean its not a real equation.

mfw

i bet you don't even know it off hand.

r=1 in polar coordinates

easy peasy where's my fields medal

>polar coordinates

lmfao this guy making up shit to sound intelligent.

is it x^2+y^2=1?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_coordinate_system

I am so sorry you were born retarded.

that's just the equation for a circle whose radius is 1

nice fake wiki faggot

parameterised according to the real and true number system, the rational numbers, and not the crazy, schizophrenic invention that is the """""""""""""""""real numbers"""""""""""""" it goes:

[math]t \in Rat, \left( \frac{2t}{1+t^2}, \frac{1-t^2}{1+t^2} \right) [/math]

Polar coordinate? Kek. Are you going to pull out your arctic coordinates next?

That is not an equation, that is just a set description. It is not the same. The equation for rational numbers is actually the same as for real numbers, you dummy. Do you even wild your bergers?

is that not what the unit circle is??????

the unit circle is a circle whose radius is 1. all you did was give an equation for it. big difference. mat his about precision here. im sorry but you're going to have to redo the 5th grade billy.

>all you did was give an equation for it.

>>What's the equation for a unit circle

Your insure bru. Fix that fir yourself

x^2 + y^2 = 1
literally a circle with radius of unity lol
xy = 1 is unit hyperbola
etc

>how can something have 5 dimensions
Asked by biology student in a grad level course when the teacher showed some formula where some parameter was^5

was it a spatial parameter? if so then in context it may have been a matter of how it can have 5 spatial parameters.

I learnt that in high school? Are you American?

I'm teaching a basic (essentially remedial) geometry class. I recently covered the conditions for triangle congruence, just your standard ASA, AAS, etc.

"Will this be on the test?"
"...Yeah."
>mass groaning

The difference between being a high schooler and a scholar is that as a scholar one is not supposed to ask "do I have to know this for the exam?" but "how can I learn more about this?"
You deserve that bad GPA.

>Are you from the country with the best high education in the world?
There's nothing wrong with introductory classes, they are there so people who didn't have the opportunity to have a real education in high school can still get a degree. There are Honors classes for those who did have an education that people like you who laugh at the American education probably wouldn't even dream of being able to keep up with.

"But teacher, i don't understand, how can 'x' be a number?"

I used to shitpost on FB when I was drunk as fuck. I'd post some crazy ass shit. Closed my account a year ago and never looked back. Alcohol and social media don't mix well.

I asked if the boundary of a set is the same as the boundary of it's compliment. Professor said yes, I then asked if we need to prove (intro proofs via analysis class) that, smart kid next to me laughed at me derisively.

I still remember that laugh 4 years later.

Towards the end of multivariable calculus
>What's a scalar product?

Same guy in quantum mechanics
>What does the upside down triangle mean?

"Can you give an example of a real life black hole?"

Well, it's at the carboxyl part, right? Why's that a stupid question?

Also trips

>DNA
>Deoxyribonucleic acid
>acid
>a c i d

is this what you tell those students in your class that ask this? I bet girls love you

Bend over and spread your legs

>flashback in high school history class
>teacher having small talk about Henry Hudson and New York
>someone asks the teacher
>but who's the king of New York

That's not too bad of a question desu

>undergrad
>scholar
kys dude, realize you're still retarded and learn to enjoy your life a bit

>learning more than what's expected of you means you're a bookworm
brainlets, i swear

That's not an equation. In bizarro geometry, it would probably be Q((x,y)) = 1

>this is the type of terminal brainlet infesting college campuses
No wonder China is beating us

I asked my thermodynamics prof how total energy in the universe can be constant, yet kinetic energy is relative.
I was going to ask about how constant speed of light and e=mc^2 works with relativity and energy too but she seemed mad at me for asking, probably should've waited until after class.

Bases in the context of DNA refers to the letters, it has nothing to do with acid-base chemistry.

When we're being shown a complex derrivation or worked problem in physics, and someone at the end after the professor is about to move onto something else asks "what does the (variable) stand for?" exposing to the room that they weren't following the material at all.

>prof: this is the plum pudding model. It was initially thought to be the correct model for atomic structure, but we know today that is not the case. the corr--
>WHHOOAAAAA so is that wat atoms actualleyy LOOK LIKE??????

>A nitrogenous base, or nitrogen-containing base, is an organic molecule with a nitrogen atom that has the chemical properties of a base.
>that has the chemical properties of a base.

>sitting next to some guy in a programming class
>prof is going through some slides on converting numbers from binary to base 10
>the guy asks how you're supposed to "know" how to calculate numbers like 2^5 without a calculator
>the entire class looks at him
I legitimately had second hand embarrassment.

no one called you a bookworm. lmao faggot

made my night holyy shit

>why does the bigger rock fall at the same time as the smaller one?

>Physics course (Electrodynamics)
>Conservative Vector Fields
>brainlet demands to know what our
>Professor means by "conservative"
>obvious /pol/itard is obvious
>twenty minutes wasted on cooling him down
>he drops the couse next week
>sigh of relief

>nothing to do with acid-base chemistry
What part of this are you not getting?

lose weight, fatty

I think I'm not getting the part that stops someone being able to answer the question:
>"If DNA has bases, then where are its acids?"
I mean, if someone asked me "If protons and electrons have different masses, then why do they have the same charge?", I wouldn't say "Mass isn't related to charge. What part of this are you not getting?".

>if hot air goes upwards, why is cold kilometers above the ground?

he's right? you can't do exponents in your head unless you've memorized a table of them.

>he cant do 2*2*2*2*2 in his head

>how strong is the gravity of an atom
in reference to electron orbits, professor didn't answer this, not sure whether it was a joke or not