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Anonymous at Wed, 26 Jun 2024 14:22:32 UTC No. 16254785
>be Smectical Doggometry major
>ask /sci/ for textbook recs on Elementary Doggerel
>they all tell me I gotta get Nigger & Pigger's Doggerel
>ask at my university's library
>they got ONE (1) copy of Nigger & Pigger from 1972, heavily torn up and with the strong scent of mold
>ask my professor for his suggested textbook
>he tells me to go for Jodders & Bigpreach, a relatively easy, straightforward book with lots of solved problems and illustrations
>ask him if he knows about Nigger & Pigger
>"Yeah, we used it in our Doggerel courses back in the 1980s, but it was too hard for most people, and led to many dropping out altogether"
>go through Jodders & Bigpreach
>end up getting good marks on my tests
So why does /sci/ keep reccomending hard textbooks when most people find them too difficult and would benefit much more greatly from working their way through easy ones instead?
Anonymous at Wed, 26 Jun 2024 15:07:50 UTC No. 16254850
>>16254785
Your goal is to get good marks from your professor. /sci/'s goal is to gain superior knowledge. We are not the same.
Anonymous at Wed, 26 Jun 2024 15:18:18 UTC No. 16254872
>>16254850
Well, sure, but then again I don't think people who are studying Pure Maths or Physics are the ones inventing robotic prosthetics or synthesizing new materials. There are niggas who've never touched a single book on Real/Complex Analysis in their lives who've contributed more to biotechnology than math departments in all of the UK, America, and Rwanda.
Anonymous at Wed, 26 Jun 2024 15:31:28 UTC No. 16254896
>>16254872
You wanted a biotechnology textbook but instead asked for a math textbook and now you're mad because someone actuality recommended a math textbook? You sound retarded.
Anonymous at Wed, 26 Jun 2024 15:42:36 UTC No. 16254904
>>16254896
Uhm, no, it's more like I've asked for books on core subjects literally every single engineering student takes (calculus, mechanics, electromagnetism, etc.) but got recs for stuff like Real Analysis and Classical Mechanics instead of stuff like Larson's Calculus and Halliday and Resnick's South African schizobait Fundamentals of Physics.
Anonymous at Wed, 26 Jun 2024 16:19:16 UTC No. 16254929
>>16254785
Because /sci/ is full of dropouts who like to larp as effortless geniuses that went through Landau&Lifshitz in their teens. It's a coping mechanism.