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<p>Wow! Not a day goes by in my classes where a classmate (graduate students) confesses their lack of basic math skills. O.K. I understand that maybe you watched too much TV when you were young or you were not a very good student BUT now you are in graduate school (wait, how in the hell did these people get in?!?!?!). I would hope ASU made sure you had at least basic skills to be admitted. </p>

<p>The other day, one classmate actually complained to the professor, in front of everyone, that the course syllabus or description never said anything about needing math skills. Hello!!! Basic math, reading, writing and speaking are assumed! If you don’t have them, you need to leave. Better yet, commit a crime so you can go to prison and the general population can be safer without such idiots! Some of these guys are PhD students and they are suppose to teach future students. What is wrong with this picture? </p>

<p>I’m surprise students haven’t complained that the syllabus didn’t say anything about needing to “think, write, or speak”. </p>

<p>No wonder over 50 percent of graduate degree are going to foreign born students versus U.S. educated.</p>

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<p>I totally agree. After reading your post, it becomes very clear that ASU needs far more stringent admissions standards…

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<p>^ serious flaw in logic there…</p>

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Did you get my point (not necessarily what the OP intended…)?</p>

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<p>I have no doubt that they have the math skills; they all had to take and score decently on the GRE AFAIK. Some people just don’t like math, that’s their style. I, for one, would be seriously ****ed if I discovered that I would have to write argumentative essays in a science class (this was not listed on the syllabus of my OChem II class and such an essay was a part of the final project). A place for every subject and every subject in its place, I say.</p>

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<p>I was criticizing the logic of the OP, not you.</p>

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<p>My dad told me about a coworker who told him that after 20 years, he “still didn’t know what x was”. (it was a fairly demanding job as well when it came to intelligence)</p>

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<p>^Maybe it was a joke?</p>