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>> wanting to shout "NO, NO it's not obvious!" Usually "obviously", "trivial" and such are used to point out that: "this should be obvious/trivial by now", if
by a1a 13y ago
>> wanting to shout "NO, NO it's not obvious!"
Usually "obviously", "trivial" and such are used to point out that: "this should be obvious/trivial by now", if not: you are getting behind/need to study more/be better prepared before class/....
- Smudge 13y agoThat is how I read these signals, and sometimes it was true. I'd study a bit more, meet with the class's TA or a university-provided tutor to go over the material, and I'd be fine. But even then, in many cases, the professor was simply expecting us to have made an intuitive leap. And those of us who hadn't made it were left behind, with no explanation as to why or what it was we needed to understand.
- munin 13y agoyou know you've stepped into the woods when you stop hearing "this is obvious" in math classes...