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by feverfew 2872 days ago
A teacher of mine, who studied maths at Oxford, was given a problem sheet on his first day and was told to finish by the time of his first tutorial. He made no progress and was reduced to tears as he thought he was incapable at Oxford. Turns out, he was given a set of unsolved problems on purpose :)
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this was known as nerd hazing in my grad school.