solarwind wrote:
>>Benjamin Grant wrote:
>> As someone who is at a fairly competitive university, I assure you your
> statements only hold a little bit of truth solarwind. There's not enough
> time in a rigorous curiculum to study sufficiently to make up for lack of
> natural ability in courses. I mean, even if it's not nice, there is 
> smarter
> an dumber and it does make a difference.  Especially in an engineering
> curriculum, getting by is largely a product of innate intelligence and 
> logic
> skills. Not saying hard work doesn't pay off, just there are a ton of 
> other
> factors. I don't think you'll fail but lots of people work hard, so to be 
> at
> the top other factors come into play. Don't get caught up in it anyway,
> enjoy yourself. <

> Nobody is born with knowledge. Nobody can think up complex
> mathematical equations or recite all the bones in the human body or
> know what a hex inverter does because of "innate abilities". Nobody.
> You get this knowledge from studying and reading. Even the subject of
> English. You have to read many books and articles before you can write
> well. Nobody is born with knowledge.

DUH?!

"Smart" is a measure of how quickly and efficiently you can process and 
absorb this knowledge.

Vitaliy 

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