Calculus

[Christian Oncken]

I dropped electronics for the same reason.  One day the topic was
capacitors, so I raised my hand in class and asked why some caps were
polarized, what the differences between polarized and non-polarized caps
were, and why you would use one as opposed to the other.

NO ANSWER.  the best I got out of him was, "polarized means it has a plus
and a minus".  Thats it.  I had to stay after class and annoy him for 10
minutes before I got that out of him...

Once he started talking about voltage controlled voltage sources, current
controlled voltage sources, current controlled current sources, and voltage
controlled current sources, he completely lost me.  I get confused easily
when I cant apply the lessons to real life, when I cant pick up a thing and
play with it...

Yet some of our electrical engineering graduates have never touched a
soldering iron.

Christian Oncken.