My GF is going to one of the smaller local colleges and brought some homework home for the Physical Education class. The assignment was to calculate your BMI. The instructions given were confusing (instructions said to do the math in centimeters, but the examples were in meters), blatantly copied from the first website that pops up on Google (right down to the examples given)........and wrong. lol Not the first time I've seen this from the stuff she has brought home (I saw the same thing from the Computer Science class with an assignment for converting numbers into different base systems....it wasn't the "wrong" way do to it but it certainly wasn't the easiest way to explain how to get the answer).

I wouldn't care if I wasn't expected to help figure out how to do these assignments, meaning I have to teach myself this crap to teach my gf (and I don't get a degree or a paycheck to show for it). After I have learned how to get the correct answer I end up getting in an argument with my gf about how her instructors are idiots and how my way is the right way.

With this latest BMI assignment the instructions were this:

Which I later found were copied from this website, the examples given by the instructor were also copied directly from this website. Too lazy to even change the numbers to come up with some different examples.....and if you are going to copy something word for word/number for number at least make sure the thing you are plagiarizing is correct. The conversion number given to go from inches-meters and pounds-kilogram on that website were not even correct. It's 0.0254 (not 0.025) to go from inches to meters and 0.453592 (not 0.45) to go from pounds to kilograms. They just made the person in the example 3 cm (1 inch) shorter and .45KG (1 pound) lighter than they really are, screwing up the real BMI.....and there is no need to convert your height and weight into the metric system first to come up with a BMI, there's a separate formula to do that.

Me: (Going by the math examples and not the instructions) Ok, so 48(KG)/1.6m^2.
GF: No, the instructions say in centimeters and that's how our instructor said to do it!
Me: Yeah, but the examples show it in meters, the instructor and written instructions are clearly wro.....never mind, we'll do it how your instructor "says" and not how the math shows it being done.

48/160^2 = 0.001875, which doesn't look like any BMI that I've seen, unless the decimal point were moved over a couple places........

Me: It should have been done in meters like in the examples, the answer is 18.75.
GF: No, the BMI is 0.001875.
Me: No, that's wrong. That's not even close to the range a BMI number should be in, look at the example answers, they are whole numbers!
GF: 0.001875 is right!
Me: If that is the answer we need to get you to a doctor immediately. It's not right.
GF: You just don't know what you are talking about.
Me: Oh FFS! *Googles BMI calculator and finds a couple websites that does the math for you and types in her numbers.* There, 18.75 on those 3 website's calculators! Do those websites not know what they are talking about either?!
GF: Oh........
Me: It's a good thing you are pretty!
GF: FU!
Me: You're welcome. Any other assignments you need my help on?


and that's just calculating BMI, imagine how converting numbers into different base systems went. College is stressful.