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...understand the American attitude toward capitalism, look inside your hall closet. There's probably a Monopoly game in there somewhere. Monopoly is the most popular board game in history, with more than 250 million copies sold. You may never have taken a real estate seminar or cracked an economics textbook. But if you grew up in an American home, and at some point it rained, you played Monopoly...
That means that while students tend to snooze during lecture, the pace of textbook reading is frenetic...
...word on the take home exam: Don't let the words "take home" lull you into a false confidence. If you procrastinate on this one, you'll be in for a very long and stressful night. None of the answers can be taken straight out of the textbook, and you'll find yourself often making educated guesses. On the plus side, you'll breathe a sigh of relief when it's returned—the grading is fairly easy. Another tip: during the review sessions in May, just put on your best sad puppy dog face and appeal...
...were far too kind and laid-back to care about a late paper here or there (We wonder why they were so relaxed?), and the papers were on sex-related topics of the students’ choosing. While the exams sometimes threw in surprisingly specific questions from the textbook, there were enough pictures of titties to make the reading more than pleasant. Let's face it—in real life, no one is going to ask you to discuss the constitution of Vichy France or identify a Bach concerto. But whether or not you're "comfortable" with...
...your house from telephones to CDs. This class is interesting and manageable (remember the days of group projects?), unless you’re bad at quantitative reasoning, in which case, no matter how well you kept up with the problem sets and the course notes (there is no textbook), the final will bite you in the ass. QR 20, “Computers and Computing” is the QR that caters to those with a mind to get rich quick. The class is curved to high heaven, but watch out for the slide back down. This is a class...