once again i am trapped in a lecture on something that has already been much better explained to me by a certain big scaled nuisance

*and* its the topic we all hyperfocused our revision time on at school because it was the fun easy one to practice. i could literally not be more across combinational logic and boolean algebra if i tried

in hindsight maybe i shouldnt have got caffeine again before a really boring lecture

@mynotaurus ponders the entertainment value of booping the yinglet​

@Endiverge eehehehe its like a snooze button, booping the snoot delays me falling asleep for another few minutes

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the energy of my first week of lectures can be accurately summarised by this genuine screenshot from an actual lecture slide

@mynotaurus i spent basically two hours learning V=IR again. and the professor was like "yeah you should practice this try the exercise" and i'm just like -_-

@username9431 its even worse for me cause i did A-level electronics, a subject barely any schools offered, so me and my friend i went to school with already know the majority of the first year of content in my course lmao

@mynotaurus this actually triggered me for a second.

@dragonminded it is an awful toot to wake up to

@mynotaurus i just.... hrmmgmgmh ​ .... you.... you know why this is stupid right? *paces and grumbles*

@dragonminded believe me. im acutely aware of why this is stupid

@mynotaurus i'm like thiiiiis close *holds up forelimbs and places her claws mere millimeters away from each other* to infodumping on this right now grrrerrgggmh. like i GET IT, as an introductory course you introduce simpler concepts and then get creatures to start thinking in terms of the building blocks, and then you later come back and refine models that were wrong for simplicity's sake. but... but.... GRERERRRGGGMNGH ​

@mynotaurus *rapidly alt-tabbing between her transistor OR and transistor NOR schematics* ​ *indiscriminate grumbling*

@mynotaurus grrrrraaargh you can't just DO this to me, creature. this is the hardest you've hassled me yet, it was like a precision strike. masterful, no notes. i can't even add consequences to your IOU list. aughhgrrrrrrrrrrrrrr ​

@dragonminded weheheheheh i do my best work by accident :>

@mynotaurus i'm WELL aware ​

@mynotaurus count your lucky rats that i'm still eepy in bed, you ABSOLUTE nuisance ​

@dragonminded hey wait why am i in danger for this, go consequences my lecturer instead im not to blame for this

@mynotaurus you're not, little one, i grant you immunity on this *gives the yinglet a reassuring scritch*

@dragonminded 💜 weh heh heh heh taking this as blanket immunity from any nuisancery caused via psychic damage from my course slides

@dragonminded speaking of which i still havent shared the slides from when we spent about 40 minutes trying to explain kirchoffs current law

@mynotaurus take it however you want, you're not due any additional consequences for now.

@mynotaurus oh yinglet, share these at your peril. do you want the "not owed consequences for now" bit to inextricably disappear ​

@dragonminded i get theyre trying to catch people up but they spent the majority of the lecture trying to explain that stuff that goes into a wire comes out the other end, while glossing over some very difficult other topics lol

@mynotaurus @dragonminded like i wish for the catchup kinda lectures they'd just release it as a video for people who already know it to watch at 1.5x speed or something

@mynotaurus hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo yinglet ò.=.ó

@username9431 @dragonminded whats even worse is the international students with low grasp of english were struggling even more with this when the analogies were introduced than when it was just maths, its infuriating, idk who this was for lol

@mynotaurus @username9431 carbrained western humans lmaoooooo

@username9431 @dragonminded like. imagine how you would explain the sum of voltages across all the components in a loop is zero. then cry when this is put on the board

@dragonminded wehehehe you would not survive my lectures. sitting at the back loudly getting more fidgetty and irate

@mynotaurus @username9431 why do you do this to me, creature. i'm so kind to you, and you are here doing psychic damage to me. for what? i feel myself actively unlearning these concepts. please, stop ​

@mynotaurus i did not do well in the lectures at my uni where they did this shit because i would raise my hand and ask questions and they were not prepared to deal with an unruly derg who questioned their authority.

@dragonminded ah see im too scared to ask questions so when they, idk, define independent loops in a vague way that contradicts their own examples, i just spend half an hour teaching myself mesh analysis from the internet to figure out the *actual* answer lmao

@mynotaurus @dragonminded whyyyyyyyy 😭

@mynotaurus i was an aggressive pill back in my college years, i regret a lot of what i did back then but it is what it is. sometimes a derg's gotta derg.

@username9431 @mynotaurus i know i'm a chaos creature because the INSTANT i saw your reply being anguished by the slide i flipped from hating it to loving it. gehehehehehehe ​

@username9431 students in the row in front of me looking up what 'byte' means in a english-to-chinese dictionary, meanwhile our lecturers out here trying to explain simple easy-to-define concepts using the most complicated pointless metaphors available

@dragonminded @username9431 everyone is displeased by this. this slide helps NO ONE lmao

@mynotaurus @username9431 no i love it. it's so good. it makes the critters mad, and suddenly i am sold on it ​

@dragonminded oh rats what have i done, i fear what i will find in your second lecture now lmao

@mynotaurus you will find nolij

@mynotaurus @username9431 @dragonminded physicist voice the electrostatic vector field, like the gravitational vector field, is conservative so this analogy works perfectly!