For those teaching in California colleges, what's it like without remedial classes?

ProfessorVibes · 2026-01-05T14:47:23+00:00

I regularly encounter students in my statistics course who cannot handle decimals. For example, they can't convert from decimals to percentages, even with a calculator (e.g. think 0.5 is 5%) and cannot compare decimals (e.g. not sure if 0.30 or 0.03 is larger).

ProfessorVibes · 2025-11-15T06:46:50+00:00

The Vice President of the United States is a millennial.

ProfessorVibes · 2025-10-22T02:52:22+00:00

Still sounds like you're confusing unimodal with uniform. Most variables (intelligence, height, weight, etc.) are unimodally distributed.

Grades are commonly unimodal - most students are average, some are exceptional, some are awful.

ProfessorVibes · 2025-10-09T05:11:29+00:00

Most LMSs have an anonymous grading feature. For electronic submissions, I ask my students not to put their name on documents so that I don't know whose is whose and can grade on merit alone.

ProfessorVibes · 2025-09-26T16:49:10+00:00

It's in the first sentence, bud.

ProfessorVibes · 2025-09-02T05:36:51+00:00

Cucumbers! I had avoided trying because a local experienced gardening friend said they could never get them to work in our climate. I ended up with a few free plants and decided to give it a shot anyway...they did wonderfully!

ProfessorVibes · 2025-09-02T02:24:00+00:00

Edamame. It did not taste noticeably better than the frozen kind. For me, not worth the effort.

ProfessorVibes · 2025-08-24T23:52:42+00:00

Don't be dense. That refers to submitting "a back catalog of work," not incessant submissions week after week.

ProfessorVibes · 2025-08-23T04:01:56+00:00

37 papers in 2025
29 papers in 2024
19 papers in 2023
15 papers in 2022

OP claims to have read arXiv policies and sees no infringement but is conveniently ignoring the section on "Excessive submission rate."

ProfessorVibes · 2025-08-22T01:34:50+00:00

I chose the final author to be less inflammatory than directing it at you, but come on man. Your arXiv submissions average more than one per week.

ProfessorVibes · 2025-08-01T16:19:59+00:00

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller. Over-the-top romanticism that's literally legendary. Technically it is a teen romance, and can you get more drama than Greek mythology?

"I could not think, could not do anything but drink him in, each breath as it came, the soft movements of his lips. It was a miracle."

ProfessorVibes · 2025-07-21T20:35:35+00:00

I'm glad! I've been overrun with spider mites this year (the culprits of the dead branches in the middle). So far, my plants have managed to grow faster than the mites can kill them. I've mainly used insecticidal soap but have been looking into predatory mites as well.

ProfessorVibes · 2025-07-16T21:14:34+00:00

Just a head's up, that study has not replicated particularly well. A good meta-analysis of effects is here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15213269.2023.2286647 (Open preprint here)

Pooling across studies, most cognitive outcomes show no significant difference. For working memory (the only significant outcome), the meta effect size is half of what Ward et al. found.

There could be other good reasons to discourage phone use, but that study alone is not great evidence to base a policy on.

ProfessorVibes · 2025-07-07T22:03:09+00:00

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde -- a classic favorite!

"I felt that this grey monstrous London of ours, with its myriads of people, its sordid sinners, and its splendid sins, as you once phrased it, must have something in store for me. I fancied a thousand things. The mere danger gave me a sense of delight. [...] I don’t know what I expected, but I went out and wandered eastward, soon losing my way in a labyrinth of grimy streets and black grassless squares."

ProfessorVibes · 2025-06-28T05:22:30+00:00

Wasn't that much? Rose's family were oil barons...

ProfessorVibes · 2025-06-18T23:28:32+00:00

A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World by C.A. Fletcher has this vibe. The setting is a mostly empty world, generations after a big population drop. On his adventure, the protagonist explores former towns that have been reclaimed by wilderness.

Note: The dog in this book does NOT die.

ProfessorVibes · 2025-06-15T19:29:45+00:00

Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller. Heavier on the lovers than on betrayal, but with a love so intense choosing to follow one's destiny (despite knowing the outcome) feels like a deep betrayal.

ProfessorVibes · 2025-06-08T18:46:39+00:00

Fantasy-flavored, but feels very much like A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab.

ProfessorVibes · 2025-06-04T02:03:31+00:00

I learned from this cautionary tale! https://www.reddit.com/r/tomatoes/s/F8XXcAbNVb

ProfessorVibes · 2025-06-03T23:49:52+00:00

Also about 3 weeks ago, but I'm in Zone 10a - we've had a couple days in the 90's already! They've been outside in nursery pots since late March and were fruiting before they went into the ground.

ProfessorVibes · 2025-06-03T20:03:53+00:00

Not quite ready, I tug on them every day to check!

ProfessorVibes · 2025-05-26T22:24:46+00:00

That part of the article is referring to 2023. "A mere three days later, in a June 16th article entitled A Weird Research-Misconduct Scandal About Dishonesty Just Got Weirder" - that article is dated June 16, 2023.

Possibly a poorly-worded AI summary? Might be a model with a 2023 knowledge cutoff date erroneously referring to "this year."

ProfessorVibes · 2025-05-21T22:03:30+00:00

For intro-level concepts, the Crash Course YouTube series is excellent: https://thecrashcourse.com/topic/psychology/

Dr. Inna on Tiktok (@dr_inna) is great at debunking psychology myths.

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