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Same, but before AI. The thought being that the Engineering exams were so difficult that even with the text book, you had little chance of getting it right unl

Same, but before AI. The thought being that the Engineering exams were so difficult that even with the text book, you had little chance of getting it right unless you knew the material. Often, final exams were just one question, but you were graded on the multiple pages of work you had to show.

pdonis 5mo ago
> Same, but before AI. My time at MIT was well before AI. And before smartphones. Even PCs were new then--I didn't have one until my senior year, and that PC had less computing power than is in things like microwaves nowadays.