"80 grand later I found out that all that I had learned..."

"...Is that you should show up to take the final and the midterm."
-Matt Thiessen of Relient K

If there is one thing that school has taught me, it's that the odd answers are in the back of the book. I'm a physics major. I take a lot of math classes, and they are not always the most interesting. Take, for instance, linear algebra. It's a math that is so abstract that it requires you to do calculations in "n" dimensions. Can you visualize coordinate axes in more than 3 dimensions? I sure as heck can't. That aside, I'm still required to take it in order to "qualify" to take higher-level physics classes. Thank goodness the odd answers are in the back.

In all seriousness, I really am glad there are some answers in the back. It's nice to have a confirmation that I understand the concept, or an indication that I missed the mark. If I can see that my answer was wrong, I then review the problem, reread sections, and then locate the pieces I was missing. I've never been one to simply copy down the answers from the back of the book. In the end, what does that accomplish? The answers to your test questions are not at the back of the test.

It's really too bad that the answers to life are not always in the back of some book. Oh well, I guess I'll just have to come up with my own answers. Like I do in my writing class.