Noticed Something Today:

Straw poll (from my very small set of readers): In your experience, when a Professor describes a result, does he expect his class to be able to figure out (or at least take a stab at figuring out) how to achieve it? (When they have the tools, etc to do it, of course. )

Just thought about this today in my econ review session, because I realised that my engineering profs would never say "this is how it should be done" without offering explanations of why its that way (and the class would never stand for it either). Thing about being an engineer is that you're supposed to be able to make shit happen, given tools and constraints. (some of us ignore constraints, of course.) Its a process of narrowing down possibilities to acceptable options, I guess. As you can tell, I like being an engineer. We make mistakes all the time, but we're always mindful of the decision making process...