In engineering school my professor, Dr. Soukup, was a stoic, military-general kind of guy. Every week he would give us homework. One week the assignment was especially maddening.
Turns out it was impossible to solve with ‘textbook’ formulas. You had to use a special computer program to solve it.
But he never said anything about that. It took consultations with several other students and another professor to solve.
So when I finally showed up for class, homework in hand, I was mad….
