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Ha! I did so bad in my undergrad Topology course, the prof took me (and a handful of others) aside and said: "I want to fail all of you. But I don't want to disrupt your degree plans. What grade do you need in order to maintain your path?"

Everyone else answered with "A" or "B". Me, being the idiot I am, answered more honestly with "D". I had good enough grades everywhere else that I probably could have gotten an F and it wouldn't have mattered much. And I literally never gave a sh¡t about grades, anyway. But I wasn't willing to say I could take an F in stride.

That class was very influential ... proving things by yourself up at the chalkboard, etc. But, reflectively, I think he was simply a bad teacher. They exist. There were only ~10 of us in the class and he wanted to fail ~4 of us. It was nice of him to make the offer he did. But maybe it wasn't merely nice. Maybe he knew he was a bad teacher?

On 7/26/21 11:09 AM, Frank Wimberly wrote:
> I took a course at Berkeley that covered most of this set theory as it was understood as of 1965, including independence of the continuum hypothesis and ZFC.  I decided to just take CH on faith.  I believe that course influenced me more than any other even though I got a C--the only one I got in any upper division math course, I think.

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