All day, I had been wondering why my pants didn't seem to fit me properly today even though I had never had a problem with this pair before.
Then I decided to check a few minutes ago and I confirmed that, indeed, I had put them on backwards. I'm such a champ.
3 days ago
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Congratulations. Your Caltech education has served you well.
- Kris K
If it wasn't in the curriculum, he doesn't have to know it, clearly.
We've been trying to add it into core for years. The current proposal would feature a term on Basic Clothing: Theory and Application as part of RL (Real Life) 002b.
The best part is that it's perfectly acceptable to show up to class nude for all of RL 001 and for RL 002a. In order to pass 002b, however, you need to average at least some number of articles of clothing a day. The exact number has been highly contested, in particular regarding the now-defunct footwear clause, by quite a few students (originally organized by south hovse lobbyists).
Also up for debate is whether or not it should be a pre-req for PE 069.
So once you learn how to put on clothing properly, it becomes optional for PE 069?
By the way, PE 069 would be a natural analog of E 10 when it comes to Caltech undergrads.
This is probably why most businessmen wear suits which with pants that have openings in the front, as opposed to sweatpants or shorts with elastic waists, etc. It isn't that they know more about how to put pants on correctly than your average Caltech [grad] student, and certainly a lot of them have not had the RL courses or their equivalent, it's just that they have decided to use clothing with more clues built in.
Thanks for the good belly laugh, guys -- now I can continue on with ridding the world (my small corner of it anyway) of math ignorance and math phobia, with a smile on my face...
(RL 001, indeed! Your description reminds me of when my toddlers were learning to dress themselves :) )
One more thing: The proper listing of this class is actually PE/PA/Ph 069.
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