What's Wrong With Homework Questions?

Flattery will get you everywhere. And we'll do just about anything for a GA!

Now we don't want every student skipping the books and library just to get a quickie answer from us. There is valuable learning in research, and that's what school is all about: learning how to learn.

If a student is stuck, can't find what he needs, I don't mind helping. But most of the questions are so dry, want formulas or even worse, solutions to math problems. A student has to get familiar with the math, so he isn't slow when he goes to work.

GA! Couldn't have said it better myself!

This is priceless! A real gem! I especially like the part about how you think we are here to, "deliberately prevent our education".

I don't know how not doing your homework for you will, " deliberately prevent our education". Perhaps you can explain that one to me.

The administrators aren't the only ones with, "some sort of hang up about it".

You seem to think that we are under some sort of obligation do your bidding. Ain't so buckaroo.

Generally, if the person asking the question wants help and not just the answer handed to them, they get all the help they ask for. There are some incredibly intelligent people here who do this FOR FREE and go out of their way to help those who ask for it. Not demand, but ask.

Go here:

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This is how you get help! By being honest. Not by being a spoiled brat and demanding instant gratification.

Like this, "Dear friends, please send me presentation on piping stress analysis."

Which one would you help?

Here's another one."Please guide me to design the Earth Mat for a commercial complex. I request you to kinldy give me the Standards reference, Size of rod, material of rod & design procedure."

When I went to school I never asked anyone for "the answer" to any question. I used what I had learned as a guide to finding the answer. I did,however, ask for a shove in the right direction from time to time.

Now I'll quote one of my favorite lines from two great philosophers named Bud Abbott and Lou Costello:"(Question) DID YOU GO TO SCHOOL, STUPID?(Reply) YEA, AND I COME OUT THE SAME WAY!!!"

If you expect people to always give you the answers then I suggest that you take the time to learn and be ready to use this quote.

Good luck.

Every forum is different, and each has its own set of guidelines. Physicsforum has a lot of good homework help, as does Eng-Tips, but the levels, and the amount of help, are very different.

I'm a moderator on another serious forum where, if I made one of my typical smart-a**ed comments with a couple of , I'd ban myself - I swear I would. Yet that board would tolerate a discussion of whether the early Catholic saints were really Druid fishmongers - a topic that'll get your post closed on here.

This is a forum for serious, not sober, engineers and technicians. We've all paid our dues, whether in long years of school or chained to a drafting table and fed only jellied vellum.

I'm always ready to help a newbie. I'll give you any help you want, but not your homework. There's a reason it's your homework. It's supposed to be hard and you're supposed to struggle with it. Ask me what book to look in and I'll tell you. Ask me what the answer means and I'll probably tell you that... if I remember. But, I don't do homework.