A math professor made a joke on our math assignment, but everyone thought it was a real, solvable question, because we're so used to being asked to do things we don't know how to do. Several of us were up all night trying to figure out how to solve the problem with the insufficient information provided.
But then, that's what we're always up all night doing. And what everyone worth listening to in science spends most of their time doing.
They're training the next generation of engineers by throwing problems at us that we can't solve- and some that no one can solve. This one was a joke, but I still haven't decided: I think it might have been one of our more worthwhile assignments, to find out that the problem we were working on was not designed to be solved.
In any case, I think they're doing it right: we should be prepared to spend much longer than all night failing to answer questions. That's what we're here for.
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