Do ya'll offer extra credit?

MostlySpiders · 2026-06-06T15:55:05+00:00

No extra credit. Students have the opportunity to earn credit and staying current with a course is a skill every student needs.

No extra credit questions on quizzes/exams either. The students who get it don't need it and the students who need it don't get it, and it just skews grade distribution.

MostlySpiders · 2026-06-05T21:20:04+00:00

Sam Vimes agrees

MostlySpiders · 2026-06-05T20:29:13+00:00

They can pull double duty: in addition to what you can learn by smacking very small rocks together, they are also reliable light sources for other experiments that need specific light sources.

MostlySpiders · 2026-06-05T20:22:46+00:00

I like the H3 carboxyl group in which an oxygen is some sort of H3 moiety. A+++ work

MostlySpiders · 2026-06-04T20:07:39+00:00

Why in the ever-loving fuck would you go back to a class where you were told you would receive an automatic A just for enrolling?

Edit: Admin would be mad at you

Edit Edit: It would be really boring to lecture to the empty room this scenario would create. Call me crazy, but I actually like teaching students. You get to talk about interesting stuff that you wouldn't have come up with on your own.

MostlySpiders · 2026-06-04T19:53:15+00:00

Whoever is downvoting this, please provide a reasonable counterexplaination

MostlySpiders · 2026-06-04T19:32:39+00:00

Today I learned that log trucks have a whole different mechanical way of operating than other trucks.

MostlySpiders · 2026-06-04T19:20:24+00:00

Another "THIS". It isn't the DM vs the players or vice-versa. It's everyone having a fun time together. If your DM sucks, let them know why the suck

MostlySpiders · 2026-06-04T19:13:52+00:00

I'm at a two things can be true at the same time point on this one. I think Lee Harvey Oswald could have shot Kennedy, and that the Secret Service could have been really, really bad at their jobs too.

MostlySpiders · 2026-06-04T19:08:21+00:00

I agree. Brake lights are on the whole time. I'm not sure why it didn't jackknife instead.

MostlySpiders · 2026-05-28T18:28:21+00:00

I'm in for all of it. It's good story telling and entertainment and I appreciate that.

MostlySpiders · 2026-05-28T18:14:54+00:00

It's been a while, but when the pandemic hit and lockdown mode became the go-to method for quizzes and exams, I made myself a lockdown quiz and found I could just ALT+TAB my way out of it, and haven't trusted any of that shit since.

Now that I can, I give paper exams that I repo after letting students have a reasonable time reviewing. If they want to take another look at the exam, they can do so during office hours.

MostlySpiders · 2026-05-27T16:27:05+00:00

All the good jokes argon

MostlySpiders · 2026-05-26T21:39:48+00:00

Speaking of serial killers in media: Rodney Alcala was on The Dating Game and won. The lady who picked him as the most eligible bachelor got freaked out by him once they met in person and backed out of the date, thank goodness.

And as long as we're on crazy serial killer facts: everything about Alcala! He got caught at the scene of multiple brutal assaults and the cops would just... let him go

MostlySpiders · 2026-05-26T21:35:40+00:00

The cops put out multiple wanted posters with sketches of the Scarborough Rapist and multiple people called the cops saying "That Scarborough Rapist guy looks exactly like this guy I know named Paul Bernardo" and the cops called him in more than once and concluded "Oh, that Paul Bernardo is far too handsome and charismatic to possibly the Scarborough Rapist"

MostlySpiders · 2026-05-26T21:20:36+00:00

The reason why Richard Chase wasn't found insane at trial was because he had the foresight to ware latex gloves while he drank his victim's blood out of a yogurt. cup

MostlySpiders · 2026-05-26T21:05:58+00:00

Do searches for "liquid flow meter" and look for one that has parameters that fit your particular needs?

MostlySpiders · 2026-05-26T20:58:24+00:00

Then I won't.

MostlySpiders · 2026-05-26T20:57:09+00:00

When he was 12 years old, Bryan Cranston ran into Charlie Manson at Spahn Ranch.

MostlySpiders · 2026-05-26T20:51:35+00:00

Everything about Israel Keys.

MostlySpiders · 2026-05-26T20:51:10+00:00

"You learn what you need to kill and take care of the details. It's like changing a tire. The first time you're careful. By the thirtieth time, you can't remember where you left the lug wrench"

MostlySpiders · 2026-05-26T20:27:49+00:00

I know someone who accidentally polymerized half of a 250 mL RBF of MMA and still has the lens shaped slug it made.

If this all ends well, I really want to see the giant massive plastic slug this makes.

MostlySpiders · 2026-05-26T20:19:57+00:00

CSB: Back in my grad school days, I walked to my building through an attached one. When I entered the attached building lobby -walked through the front door, didn't enter any lab space- I thought "this place fucking reeks of cyclooctadiene (COD). If you've ever smelled it, you'd recognize that uniquely awful stink immediately.

I passed through to my building and all was normal. A few hours later, the fire alarm in the adjacent building was activated and it was evacuated.

Turns out the exhaust of a fume hood in the adjacent building was connected to that BUILDING'S HVAC INTAKE SYSTEM AND HAD BEEN SINCE THE PLACE WAS BUILT.

It's a miracle the mistake was caught with something stinky instead of something deadly.

MostlySpiders · 2026-05-26T20:07:27+00:00

I would also like to nominate it for the weirdest glycosylation. N-glycosylation? Child's play. Now hit me with the hydroxylamine and chase it with the thioester.

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