TravisHusky

I have never had an oral exam, but I have always thought it would be great for smaller classes. Basically I would love to have an exam where I sit down with a professor for 30 minutes to an hour and talk about the content and answer questions they ask. I feel like it would be a bit more in-depth while also eliminating the possibility of misunderstanding a mistakenly ambiguous question. I am not sure how realistic that is for a class above about 15 students, and also how things like disabilities would be handled, but I'd love to try it.

I had a couple professors do exactly what you did and it was much more enjoyable. I feel like I leaned a lot more in classes like that, and now that I have a real engineering job I have realized this style is a lot more accurate to what the real world is like.

Just to throw it out there, I graduated during the pandemic, and it was so frustrating not only the amount of cheating that occurred, which meant that if you didn't cheat you fell behind; but also how professors responded. I had a few professors who made exams ridiculously hard with strict time limits, just because they expected people to cheat. So the exams were designed in a way they cheating was the only way to get through it, which just encouraged more people to cheat. Not to say every person cheated, or every professor designed tests to be harder, but both groups were larger than you'd expect.

The good news is I think that with classes being in person again things will go relatively back to normal. Honestly I don't think I can fault students who cheated during the pandemic, it was just so abnormal that most people did whatever they had to to cope.

Yeah, it will be great when the average person loses their private key(s) and then has no recourse to get their money back.

Let's say they have a 3rd party managing their keys so they don't lose them, well congratulations you just reinvented banking but in a way that inherently destroys the environment.

I was just there; that whole region of Turkey (and Turkey in general) has really amazing and well preserved ancient artifacts and structures. I would definitely recommend the trip! My friend and I rented a car and just drove along the coast stopping at different museums, palaces, and ruins.