I had to decipher my professor's questions sometimes- they were a bit vague-but all in all I think it went pretty smoothly.
If "smoothly" means deriving your own equations because you forgot them
[be true to your units, people! It saved my hiney!!]
and making up baloney about how to make a polymer more ductile
and trying to come up with the perfect material for an ice pick off of the top of your head.
I chose diamond.
(It was the only thing I could think of that had the hardness I was looking for, would be eco-friendly, and doesn't corrode. I usually google these things, so I was having a really hard time coming up with a material.)
Don't tell me that a diamond ice pick is ridiculous-- because price was not one of the things I had to consider! {Haha Jordan, the econ side of me lost!} I thought I was being pretty creative, actually. Hey, my first thought was carbon nanotubes...
Diamond ice pick. Ha.
Well, even with the mediocre final, I got to sell back my textbook for a whopping $82!
{And no, I don't need the thing for reference, I google my material requirements, remember?? Doesn't that make you feel comfortable about today's engineers who are designing your bridges, dams, airplanes, and prosthetic limbs?? Wikipedia, baby.}
I felt good about life after that. Goodbye material science.
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