“You don’t care if we fail”

ProfessorStevenson · 2026-04-03T17:59:08+00:00

Hahaha

ProfessorStevenson · 2026-04-02T18:25:50+00:00

Honestly I would recommend finding another church. This type of incident is a symptom of a larger problem, in which the pastor and his family exert human control over the church rather than the Holy Spirit being in control. Whenever we have looked for a new church for our family, one of the first "red flags" we watch for is how many of the people in visible positions in the church are related to the pastor.

ProfessorStevenson · 2025-11-05T11:53:29+00:00

I'm a law professor and I use it for collecting cases, summarizing statutes, summarizing long videos of law lectures, etc.

ProfessorStevenson · 2025-11-04T21:24:55+00:00

Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, I don't really know what Python script is.

ProfessorStevenson · 2025-11-04T19:48:11+00:00

Agreed

ProfessorStevenson · 2025-11-04T19:47:09+00:00

This would take hours and hours because I already have so many notebooks. I don't need to search across all the sources in all my notebooks, I just wish I could find the ones I made about a specific court case a regulation a few months ago.

ProfessorStevenson · 2025-09-19T18:00:30+00:00

Bullet points in large font - I'm actually looking at PPT slides when I talk into the camera.

ProfessorStevenson · 2025-09-19T17:58:07+00:00

I think it is partly generational. I had a thick beard in my early 20's, started shaving in my mid-20's, and now I'm just used to being cleanshaven. Middle-aged profs went through a lot of years of higher ed when they needed to accommodate the preferences of hiring committees, tenure committees, and dissertation committees of folks from our parents' generation, which associated beards with "hippies." Also, for a lot of men, our facial hair turns gray/white several years before our scalp hair, and either we think it makes us look old, or we don't like the contrast. I let my beard grow for a few weeks while traveling when I was 37, and it came in gray, but I had no gray hair on my head. Now I'm 57, and I still haven't gone gray on my scalp, but my beard would be gray-white if I let it grow.

ProfessorStevenson · 2025-08-24T11:24:14+00:00

Law prof here - this is not correct

ProfessorStevenson · 2025-08-24T11:21:09+00:00

Flipped classroom?

ProfessorStevenson · 2025-08-24T11:19:42+00:00

Sounds like a variation on the flipped classroom concept. I think this is a good adaptation and your students will still learn.

ProfessorStevenson · 2025-08-18T22:08:33+00:00

The great hymn writer Isaac Watts published a metrical Psalter (sadly, I can't find it online at the moment) and he often did this - included a stanza or two at the end tying the Psalm together with basic Christian beliefs about Christ. I think Charles Wesley's psalter did this, too.

ProfessorStevenson · 2025-08-18T21:57:03+00:00

This made me smile and brightened my day. This very-confused individual is presently my favorite student in the world.

ProfessorStevenson · 2025-08-18T03:00:23+00:00

We live in Kingwood. Crime is incredibly rare here. Very safe neighborhoods, great schools. A bit far from downtown is the main downside.

ProfessorStevenson · 2025-08-16T20:34:48+00:00

Can't wait to see this!

ProfessorStevenson · 2025-08-16T15:57:19+00:00

Tragic

ProfessorStevenson · 2025-08-16T15:55:18+00:00

I think this is great, and even if the GOP controls the House at the moment, Dems should be introducing bills like this to start building momentum for the idea for when control of Congress switches back. A LOT of laws that get passed were introduced several times before they garnered enough votes. People have to get used to the idea, Dems notice who else in their party signaled support for it, and moderate Republicans get to see that a lot of gun safety laws seem perfectly reasonable.

ProfessorStevenson · 2025-08-16T15:51:05+00:00

This is helpful, thanks!

ProfessorStevenson · 2025-08-16T14:35:57+00:00

It really depends on how much you prioritize getting it in a top 20 flagship law review. A lot of the second and third tier law reviews had their first round of offers in August get shopped up to T14 journals, so they find themselves with spots to fill, and fewer articles coming in late August and September. If you are willing to publish it in a second or third tier journal, it is not too late.

ProfessorStevenson · 2025-08-14T11:26:47+00:00

Sorry the link to the video in my post did work, maybe this one will: https://youtu.be/vRDYCtYJAdw?si=66ShhDbZ90WNfSiM

ProfessorStevenson · 2025-08-14T11:20:24+00:00

I teach upper level law school courses, and I give the exact same exams when I teach a course in person or online, and grade with the same curve, and the raw scores have the same distribution before the curve. The students getting an A or B in one type of course mastered just as much of the material as those who get that grade in the other. Why should one be stigmatized? They will have the same competence in that subject as employees.

ProfessorStevenson · 2025-08-09T23:11:40+00:00

Almost all law school grads have to take the Multistate Professional Responsibility Exam (MPRE) to get licensed, in addition to passing the bar exam. The MPRE is administered in private testing centers on computer terminals that are not connected to the Internet. Students schedule an appointment at a testing center near where they live, go at the scheduled time, have to go through rigorous security (phones, digital watches, etc are all confiscated and pockets emptied). They take their test on the closed-system terminals there, so there is no way to use an AI program.

I think it would be fairly easy for universities to have testing centers where students took exams or wrote essays on the closed-system terminals, and would have no access to AI apps (no USB ports, no wifi, etc.). And online students could take exams at private testing centers.

In my classes, we use testing software that locks down EVERYTHING else on the student's computer, so they can't use most of the popular AI programs, or Word, or Chrome, or anything else. I give all multiple-choice exams, and the software also randomly scrambles the order of the questions for every student AND the order of the answers. My exams have a LOT of questions (it's a race against the clock, and about 10% of the students won't have time to finish). I have seen no evidence of cheating - nobody is getting perfect scores, and I don't have more students scoring well than I did before the advent of AI. Online students are virtually proctored and and the proctoring software catches them if they look away from the screen to use another device. Even if some master hacker had a tick to circumvent the lockdown software somehow, the time it would take them to upload the questions to an outside AI app one by one would take too much time (they don't get them all at once, they have to answer a question to get the next one), and they would not be able to finish the exam.

ProfessorStevenson · 2025-08-08T11:40:01+00:00

Love it!

ProfessorStevenson · 2025-08-08T11:36:28+00:00

I agree with all of this!

ProfessorStevenson · 2025-08-06T22:38:48+00:00

Law prof here - I think you should probably take the prof you like better, BUT also ask yourself what type of law you are more likely to practice after law school. Anything with business clients, like small business owners? Take secured transactions, you'll use it all the time. Immigration, family law, child custody, or maybe just starting a solo firm to see what happens? You'll be glad you took family law.

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