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Now try a new experiment:

* There are 60 students, all taking 5 classes, with multiple assignments due at random time points in each class.

* To finish any assignment, the student needs several tasks to be performed by other students in different disciplines.

* The exact amount of effort required for any of those tasks is unknown.

* The college has ordered the professors to assign just a bit more work than can possibly be completed, or equivalently, has under-estimated the number of students needed to complete all of the assigned tasks.



I take it you spoke to my professors.


Giving people impractical tasks and expecting miracles is something else entirely.




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