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I think in all the science and math classes, they’re correct, it’s a lot of memorization and repetition of things that are known.

Where they’re wrong is on any class where you need to be original or come up with a solution to an open-ended question. In particular, the traditional “capstone” or “senior design” project.

That said, it’s easy to see how an outsider may think this, as I feel the memorization-type classes were probably 70-80%+ of my coursework.

But the reason you did that was to see different ways of solving smaller problems that you could build into novel solutions in your other 20-30% of classes.

I think you might have chosen the worst example, actually. I got through physics entirely on rote memorization of unit conversions. Take the units they give you in the problem, and the units you need in the answer, and find the path through them with equations.

I actually had a test where I was marked off as wrong because I had an entire page packed with work, but then got to the right answer. The professor told me I took about 3x as many steps as were intended to solve the problem, but none of the work I did was wrong, just circuitous because there was a shorter step through an equation I didn’t use.

I’m not even sure there was a makeover. I think it was just painted.

I feel like that really depends on the manga, but there are some crappier ones it definitely applies to.

Legal advice aside, I hope at least one person decided to submit the addresses of a bunch of cops.