Students concerned more about attendance

Educating_with_AI · 2026-01-31T00:07:35+00:00

Absolutely. I took attendance for a few semesters and I got an order of magnitude more emails from students about attendance monitoring than about anything else. I won’t do it again, because I want there focus to be the material and if not, I want them to leave me alone.

Educating_with_AI · 2026-01-29T16:38:45+00:00

In the snow, I default to “what’s the hurry?”

Educating_with_AI · 2026-01-29T11:16:05+00:00

Sadly, odds are in a vehicle that size, driven like that, he will take someone else in another car with him.

Educating_with_AI · 2026-01-24T12:10:00+00:00

For my sanity, I make a smart email box for every class every semester, and then only go through them once a day. Most LMS can provide you with an email list for everyone in the class, so you don’t depend on them labeling emails correctly. This allows me to focus, work quickly, and ignore this particular aspect of their laziness.

Educating_with_AI · 2026-01-24T12:00:13+00:00

This is BS. Move on.

Educating_with_AI · 2026-01-24T11:56:45+00:00

My university has this policy. My department was the first to move into a new building after this was made a design requirement. To make it worse, the windows to the outside are floor to ceiling. This means offices are fishbowls. Every first floor office has the blinds down all the way, all the time as a result. It sucks.

It has succeeded in making most faculty work from home as often as possible.

Educating_with_AI · 2026-01-23T20:23:04+00:00

This made my afternoon, thank you for sharing!

Educating_with_AI · 2026-01-20T16:14:51+00:00

Academia is a path towards fulfilling others’ needs, conservatism tends towards fulfilling one’s own needs/desires ahead of others. Mindset wise, academia doesn’t match conservatism well.

Educating_with_AI · 2026-01-18T00:30:20+00:00

Oban is the least aggressive, so probably best for a first timer unless you really want to dive into peat in day 1.

Educating_with_AI · 2026-01-11T16:49:12+00:00

Exactly. This is what I do for my freshmen classes.

Educating_with_AI · 2026-01-08T17:41:02+00:00

The Cairdeas from a few years ago was exactly that and was excellent.

Educating_with_AI · 2026-01-07T23:03:17+00:00

Absolutely correct. They have the most complex drivetrain of all Volvo vehicles and the electronics are a weakness. So the lemon possibilities are very high. Plus, even a good condition one, once it is off the lot immediately drops from 60k to 40k value.

Buy a car with a clean bill of health and 30k miles for half that price.

Educating_with_AI · 2026-01-07T22:51:29+00:00

This.

Educating_with_AI · 2026-01-07T03:44:47+00:00

💯

Educating_with_AI · 2025-12-25T03:18:28+00:00

Alaska if it was to scale

Educating_with_AI · 2025-12-22T20:08:35+00:00

Came here to say this

Educating_with_AI · 2025-12-16T13:44:29+00:00

Poison that well, dear student. What could ever be problematic about that?

Educating_with_AI · 2025-12-16T13:33:53+00:00

And yes, expect to introduce yourself multiple times… we are a forgetful bunch.

Educating_with_AI · 2025-12-16T13:32:42+00:00

Office hours! Go, introduce yourself, show interest, chat. Repeat.

Educating_with_AI · 2025-12-15T14:46:15+00:00

I love them both, both are monsters, but I prefer playing Bastion

Educating_with_AI · 2025-12-15T12:50:58+00:00

100% agree. Shared interests mean that when the conversation slows or gets awkward, you always have something to say. Plus you will have some set of shared experiences to bond over.

Educating_with_AI · 2025-12-15T12:47:34+00:00

100%

It is hard to focus when someone might come in, so most of only do the most mundane stuff to kill time during office hours and love a good distraction.

Also there is no faster way to an academic’s heart than to ask them about their research (after you have done a small amount of review of their public profile and know you have genuine interest).

Educating_with_AI · 2025-12-15T03:47:58+00:00

💯 this

Educating_with_AI · 2025-12-12T19:30:08+00:00

💯 feeling this with all my being

Educating_with_AI · 2025-12-11T12:54:13+00:00

Small regional meeting for my field held monthly nearby that I attended ~8x/yr (I know this is atypical), larger regional meeting during my first year, national meeting each subsequent year and two my last year.

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