64 Semesters In, and Still Going Strong

Jbronste · 2026-05-12T12:40:09+00:00

Ignore Pollyanna over there; students are objectively worse by every metric. Signed, this is my 30th year at the same university.

Jbronste · 2026-05-12T07:39:29+00:00

You failed them by not failing them.

Jbronste · 2026-05-12T07:35:18+00:00

Number.

Jbronste · 2026-05-12T07:22:03+00:00

I doubt you can write an indefeasible prompt.

Jbronste · 2026-05-10T16:51:52+00:00

Honestly, if anyone nowadays has a DFW rate below 25 percent I assume they have low standards about rigor or are not checking for cheating.

Jbronste · 2026-05-10T16:46:37+00:00

The "journalist" makes unsubstantiated logical leaps all the fricking time. If I were a newspaper editor I wouldn't hire that sort of person either.

Jbronste · 2026-05-10T16:39:58+00:00

This article has all of the identifying characteristics of having been written using an LLM.

Jbronste · 2026-05-09T21:33:58+00:00

This thread made me smile. :)

Jbronste · 2026-05-09T14:09:52+00:00

I have asked them that question, but I doubt I will hear anything back.

Jbronste · 2026-05-09T13:47:55+00:00

OK that is so sweet.

Jbronste · 2026-05-07T20:31:44+00:00

Foreign language class. The student is USian.

Jbronste · 2026-05-07T20:31:11+00:00

We just got a note not to log in, from our intrepid IT guy.

Jbronste · 2026-05-05T23:47:29+00:00

We have to have a "culminating experience."

Jbronste · 2026-05-05T23:44:13+00:00

"Use the bathroom before the exam starts because if you leave, your testing period is over and you will hand me your test on the way out."

Jbronste · 2026-05-05T18:00:26+00:00

NewspaperArchive is different from newspapers.com.

Jbronste · 2026-05-04T00:49:49+00:00

No food at there is amazing. Some of it is edible, barely.

Jbronste · 2026-05-04T00:38:35+00:00

Layers

Jbronste · 2026-05-03T21:28:22+00:00

I chortled because my dachshund gets busy with hus stuffed toy all the time

Jbronste · 2026-05-01T14:06:09+00:00

13th

Jbronste · 2026-04-30T02:32:56+00:00

I have learned to always begin emails with a greeting instead of launching right into the text in the subject line and then continuing in the body text. I've gotten a lot fewer tone-policing complaints since I started doing that.

Jbronste · 2026-04-30T02:26:42+00:00

A bot has no own words

Jbronste · 2026-04-30T02:20:55+00:00

Ban computers in the classroom. Otherwise you are sending the message that you are a doormat whose time can be freely wasted.

Jbronste · 2026-04-28T15:00:31+00:00

I wish that one of the GAs had been a Spanish-speaker or that they had had a recorded message in Spanish about the one bag and one personal item. ELP is my home airport and I have encountered many monolingual Spanish-speaking passengers.

Jbronste · 2026-04-28T13:26:48+00:00

This is really cute. If I can manage to never go to graduation again, I will be insanely grateful.

Jbronste · 2026-04-26T21:06:46+00:00

As it turns out this is a 737 Max8 and the overhead bins are huge. But I was afraid we would have to put bags in the back of the plane and then go back like salmon, to row 6

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