{"id":65,"date":"2018-08-14T16:31:19","date_gmt":"2018-08-14T16:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/65-tiger-cub\/?p=65"},"modified":"2018-08-15T13:37:23","modified_gmt":"2018-08-15T13:37:23","slug":"tuesday-april-5th-alex-argo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/65-tiger-cub\/2018\/08\/14\/tuesday-april-5th-alex-argo\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday April 5th &#8212; Alex Argo"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>ZAMM chapters 16 and 17<\/h4>\n<p>General comments about Bill Becker:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 He\u2019s an artist with an interest in technology<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Important messages:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Select materials for a project with their properties in mind<\/p>\n<p>Top spokes: tension in the spokes. As the wheel is turning, the tension is changing. Not all of the spokes work towards supporting the rider<\/p>\n<p>Break with front wheel. Front wheel is more important for breaking than back wheel.<\/p>\n<p>No acceleration in the front wheel, only in the back<\/p>\n<p>Suspension system: whole purpose is to give a more comfortable ride. Absorbs shock from a bump<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He didn\u2019t talk about how it keeps the wheels on the ground<\/li>\n<li>Front fork is very important (go izzy and alex)<\/li>\n<li>Keeps motorcycle on the ground when it hits bumps<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Chapter 16:<\/p>\n<p>No motorcycle references<\/p>\n<p>Content:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Narrator talks about what would happen if schools took away grades<\/li>\n<li>What would happen if students didn\u2019t have grading system<\/li>\n<li>Kid drops out of school and then comes back and works in machine shop and starts making tools<\/li>\n<li>He decides grades aren\u2019t important<\/li>\n<li>Parker thinks it was deceiving that he was masking the grades rather than taking them away<\/li>\n<li>Grades are so engrained in society<\/li>\n<li>Can\u2019t just cover up grades, have to find a way to get rid of them all together<\/li>\n<li>Hiding grades would take away the room for improvement<\/li>\n<li>Preston: has his grades hidden from him. Asked all his professors to give him feedback, but he doesn\u2019t ever ask for grade<\/li>\n<li>Doesn\u2019t want to know his GPA<\/li>\n<li>Hudson didn\u2019t have grades all through high school<\/li>\n<li>Every semester he would get a page write up from teachers. Transcript was all write ups from teachers<\/li>\n<li>You would need more admission officers to go through all of that<\/li>\n<li>Idea of quality:\n<ul>\n<li>Integral to the world<\/li>\n<li>So elusive that it can\u2019t be pinned down<\/li>\n<li>Do we try to replace the idea of quality with a grade?<\/li>\n<li>Hudson thinks mankind tries to quantify everything<\/li>\n<li>Professor Littman: ranks papers quality top to bottom<\/li>\n<li>Very subjective<\/li>\n<li>Is the job your doing good enough?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Professor Littman is not a fan of grades<\/li>\n<li>PDF system doesn\u2019t work because students take courses that they don\u2019t care about the course in order to lighten the load<\/li>\n<li>Troublesome with classes where there is teamwork<\/li>\n<li>Feedback element is very important<\/li>\n<li>Schools teach to imitate:\n<ul>\n<li>Professors are very dogmatic<\/li>\n<li>Teaching to a test, so teachers a lot of the time don\u2019t have a choice<\/li>\n<li>Picasso studied many different artists and tried to imitate all the different styles and then brought his creativity into it. This served as a foundation for him<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Success of this course is about being able to do things on your own<\/li>\n<li>Idea of individuals developing skills that they can then apply later on in life<\/li>\n<li>Individuals can set objectives for themselves<\/li>\n<li>Overwhelmed with workload: objective becomes trying to move on to something else<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Chapter 17:<\/p>\n<p>No motorcycle references<\/p>\n<p>YMCA method of using kids egos to elicit effort<\/p>\n<p>Ego goals provide good motivation. Any effort that has self something as its end goal is a disaster<\/p>\n<p>Its bad for ego to be its own reward<\/p>\n<p>Ali thinks people have to recognize their success. People shouldn\u2019t always be looking ahead, they should be aware and satisfied with here and now<\/p>\n<p>Micah doesn\u2019t think it is possible to not look ahead to the future<\/p>\n<p>Diego: you should focus on what you want, rather than the act of achieving a goal over and over again<\/p>\n<p>Hudson : is ambition good?<\/p>\n<p>Narrator says to focus on the journey of getting there and achieving your goal, rather than only focusing on the goal<\/p>\n<p>Uses metaphor of trying to reach the top of a mountain<\/p>\n<p>Diego: shouldn\u2019t be focused on continuously achieving<\/p>\n<p>The point of the chapter is to get the definition of quality<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ZAMM chapters 16 and 17 General comments about Bill Becker: \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 He\u2019s an artist with an interest in technology \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Important messages: Select materials for a project with their properties in mind Top spokes: tension in the spokes. As the wheel is turning, the tension is changing. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/65-tiger-cub\/2018\/08\/14\/tuesday-april-5th-alex-argo\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tuesday April 5th &#8212; Alex Argo&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/65-tiger-cub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/65-tiger-cub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/65-tiger-cub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/65-tiger-cub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/65-tiger-cub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/65-tiger-cub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/65-tiger-cub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions\/66"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/65-tiger-cub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/65-tiger-cub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/65-tiger-cub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}