Awesome I'm as smart as a high schooler

[Pengwuino]

Our university had its Math field day yesterday and i volunteered for some extra credit in a math class I am taking. Boy did I feel out of my element as a physics student. The competition i was proctoring, I could barely answer half the questions! I feel like trying to get our department to do a physics field day so i can regain my confidence as someone who is supposedly educated. Then again I don't think I've ever heard of a physics field day, have YOU?

there's no real point to this thread other then to pat myself on the back for being as smart as a high schooler.

Ok to be fair, a 9th-12th grader.

 

[Moonbear]

I've never heard of a math field day either. Please don't tell me they used some really geeky interpretation of the term "field" to pull it off.

 

[Pengwuino]

I don't actually know what a field day is :)

 

[Moonbear]

It's the thing you do when in elementary school when you spend a day playing in the fields...we had things like sack races, three-legged races, egg tosses, some more serious soccer games and long jump, hurdles, etc. type sports, and at the end of the day, the 6th graders got to fire off their model rockets they built in science class. So, field day means getting to play out on a field. I can't imagine any way that math would fit with that theme, unless they set up booths outside or something.

 

[TheStatutoryApe]

You should ask for a chess field day.
Everyone could dress up in white or black, become the chess pieces, and play team chess (out in a field of course).

 

[Moonbear]

You should ask for a chess field day.
Everyone could dress up in white or black, become the chess pieces, and play team chess (out in a field of course).

That would be pretty neat...that's something I'd show up to watch (I don't know how to play chess, so wouldn't participate unless someone else called the moves...it would be fun to chase the other pieces off the board if I landed on their space to eliminate them though. )

 

[TheStatutoryApe]

That would be pretty neat...that's something I'd show up to watch (I don't know how to play chess, so wouldn't participate unless someone else called the moves...it would be fun to chase the other pieces off the board if I landed on their space to eliminate them though. )

I think wooden swords would be a given.

 

[Integral]

In the Navy a field day is when the ship or barracks gets a thorough cleaning.

 

[binzing]

In the Navy a field day is when the ship or barracks gets a thorough cleaning.

I think I'll stick with MB's civilian version.