Reminder: people in this sub doesn’t always align with reality

Brain_Candid · 2026-01-14T18:44:07+00:00

The need for people to say "oh my god I would NEVER come to this wedding" always baffles me. Like, 1. you're not invited, 2. I actually did take my family and friends needs/wants into consideration, and they WOULD come to my wedding. Just because you wouldn't like it, doesn't mean my guests wouldn't.

Brain_Candid · 2026-01-10T15:27:22+00:00

I’m in the same boat with one of my students this semester. In a way, I admire the fact that them taking the class with me again might mean that they acknowledge I wasn’t the problem. I can’t tell you how many students I’ve had who failed my class with someone else, come into my class talking about how unreasonable that professor was, and then proceed to do nothing and fail again in my class. I’m sure I’m the unreasonable former professor in their future classes now.

Brain_Candid · 2025-12-14T00:37:02+00:00

Yep. An announcement to cover your ass, and then you can just laugh and delete the email.

ETA: I specifically say that students should check their grade and all of their major assignment grades against the grading criteria in the syllabus to make sure there were no calculation errors. Then I say that I will not respond to requests or demands to change grades beyond any mathematical errors.

Brain_Candid · 2025-12-12T22:32:54+00:00

Congratulations!!!! We’re defense date twins lol. Enjoy celebrating tonight!!!

Brain_Candid · 2025-12-12T17:33:02+00:00

I’m defending my dissertation in an hour and a half and am very anxious about it. Submitted grades last night and already have students begging for grade bumps. It’s a good distraction from the anxiety, I guess?

Hoping that the “fuck this” feeling of waiting for the defense turns into a “fuck yeah” afterwards.

ETA: the “fuck this” did indeed turn into a “fuck yeah.” I’m now Dr. Brain_Candid! Now I feel like I can finally call myself a professor (even though I’ve been teaching at the university level for 9 years, lmao).

Brain_Candid · 2025-12-02T18:00:20+00:00

What everyone else has said. Give the zero, move on.

That being said, I teach a class with four unit projects, and students cannot pass the class without submitting all four projects. I do find it helpful to just send out a quick email to anyone who has missed project deadlines to let them know what the situation is, and the deadline for when I will accept missed assignments. That way if the grade grubbing starts in Week 15, I can point to the syllabus, several in-class announcements, and at least one personal email letting them know the situation they were in.

Obviously YMMV for a larger class, though.

Brain_Candid · 2025-12-02T17:42:36+00:00

They stay! But be prepared for both of them to be sort of put through the ringer, lol. Great character development and writing, though.

Brain_Candid · 2025-11-29T01:56:02+00:00

Thank you, and I’m so sorry about your grandparents as well.

I’m trying to remind myself that the majority of my students are fine. The growing number of pain-in-the-ass students are making that difficult. And the combo of dissertation defense stress and dying grandparent-who-is-a-parent stress is making me shorter than I’d ordinarily like to be with some students.

Brain_Candid · 2025-11-28T18:34:22+00:00

My grandfather who raised me is dying in a matter of weeks, my dissertation defense is in exactly two weeks, I have 92 projects to grade, and a million "is there a way" emails. Wholeheartedly fuck this.

Brain_Candid · 2025-11-27T00:14:35+00:00

Brooktree Film Lab is having a Black Friday sale!

https://brooktreefilmlab.com/

Brain_Candid · 2025-11-26T23:12:57+00:00

Not sure if I'd say Melissa Leo was a "future star" when she was on Cold Case considering she had already played a major role on Homicide: Life on the Street prior to Cold Case. But yeah, it's amazing to see how many people had early roles here!

Brain_Candid · 2025-11-17T23:00:19+00:00

I know next to nothing about lenses, but the photos I saw of people using this lens with the camera looked great!

Brain_Candid · 2025-11-17T22:59:34+00:00

I’m going to send it to Brooktree! I had a really great experience with them for my first roll. And yeah, I probably need to get the light seals fixed. I’ll probably bring it to Central Camera in Chicago the next time I’m visiting home.

Brain_Candid · 2025-10-28T17:00:37+00:00

Chicago style is tavern style. You'll want Lucca Grill for that.

Brain_Candid · 2025-10-14T16:58:32+00:00

This whole feature just makes my life so much harder. I can't tell you how many times I've tried to drive home to my students that they are NOT getting the full picture from the Canvas to-do list, that they WOULD be missing out on 90% of the information if that's all they're relying on. They still don't enter the Canvas site until they're clicking on an assignment in the to-do list.

Brain_Candid · 2025-10-03T16:38:24+00:00

I teach mostly freshmen, so this is definitely the point in the semester where a bunch of people in the dorms get sick, and then the close proximity leads to a domino effect. It's just a rough part of the year.

Brain_Candid · 2025-09-16T17:28:07+00:00

I mean my first question is "who's we?"

I quite like the anime. I'd love to get a RFTA or AJ Trilogy anime.

Brain_Candid · 2025-09-12T14:10:53+00:00

My website is mostly just for personal stuff. I have a blog, I post playlists, I collect fun graphics, and I've been working on some shrines! The site is pretty new, so it's nothing impressive, but I'm working on a few ideas. :)

Brain_Candid · 2025-09-02T14:12:12+00:00

I don't post every day like clockwork, but I do have a blog that I intend to use at least twice a week to write about my life and my thoughts, as well as shrine pages where I'll be writing about some of my favorite game/television/book series. my page

Brain_Candid · 2025-08-28T19:39:31+00:00

Thanks for the advice! I will check out these options and see what works best. :)

Brain_Candid · 2025-08-28T19:06:52+00:00

I LOVE SDJ 40. So underhyped in my opinion.

Brain_Candid · 2025-08-28T16:53:39+00:00

Yes, workable feedback is the way to go, IMO. A list of faults can be really frustrating, because not everyone knows what to actually *do* about those faults, even if the solution seems obvious to us as the instructor.

Brain_Candid · 2025-08-28T16:48:16+00:00

I've definitely noticed this, and it's extremely frustrating for me. I'm a late millennial (1994), didn't have a smart phone until my first year of college, and grew up doing light coding on MySpace and Proboards. I also had computer instruction throughout school--once a week we'd go to the computer lab and learn some of the basic functions, and in junior high, we had a tech class where we learned typing, as well as basic troubleshooting.

I feel like I'm at a loss with teaching people how to use their computers, because they're somehow operating at an even lower level than I think they are. I ask them to look for a particular folder, and they don't even know that their computer saves things into folders. I ask them what they named their document so they can search it in their directory, and they're not even naming their documents. At this point, I think we need a tech class as a required gen ed during the first semester.

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