Monday, May 26, 2008

Things I learned while grading one of my final exams

1. "Larger wavelengths have trouble fitting through photomultiplier tubes."

2. "One advantage of X-ray [technique] is that is uses X-rays."

2 Comments:

Anonymous said...

When you say it that way, I think I tried to re-educate many of my professors. I've seen my share of interesting claims on the exams my students turn in to me.

Unbalanced Reaction said...

Haha....sadly, I've seen more than one intro of a semi-decent paper with a sentence along the same lines as #2... :)