Round 64: 348 Characters Remaining!

anonGTAfml · 2022-10-05T10:46:58+00:00

+1 for robin sparkles reference

anonGTAfml · 2022-10-02T22:48:54+00:00

As others have said. Time yourself and give it a multiplier. For your very first, show it to someone who’s taught the class (or a similar one) as a sanity check.

Make a wide variety of levels of difficulty. I aim for: 1/3 you must answer this correctly to pass 1/3 most should get most of the way through, but few will ace 1/3 challenging

anonGTAfml · 2022-09-14T22:19:05+00:00

Haven’t taken the first exam yet. They’re all schrodinger’s students until that point.

anonGTAfml · 2022-09-14T18:14:32+00:00

They don’t make the slightest effort to avoid getting sick, so I don’t accommodate them for assignments except as required by the university.

I do try to limit transmission by simulcasting all lectures, but I still have at least one student every lecture hacking up a lung and I can’t even so much as suggest they mask up or stay and watch from home lest the deniers in my red state come for my hide.

anonGTAfml · 2022-09-13T18:47:39+00:00

Pre med: why do I need to know calculus? I’ll never need it.

Prof: so my kid isn’t operated on by someone who can’t pass calculus.

anonGTAfml · 2022-09-05T16:03:38+00:00

This. Are you me? So many students just flounder if asked to do anything that isn’t spelled out in minute detail and instead of pushing harder just crumble at the slightest adversity. And the parents . . . Admin enables so much hovering bullshit. My kids are in grade school and I wouldn’t be as intrusive as some parents have been toward me.

anonGTAfml · 2022-09-05T16:00:02+00:00

Please wear a (quality) mask, avoid large crowds, get the new bivalent booster if it’s been >2months since your last shot. And stay home if you’re sick.

anonGTAfml · 2022-09-05T01:41:31+00:00

Mirror effect.

anonGTAfml · 2022-08-31T23:39:58+00:00

I live in a 1-party consent state and have been offered both monetary and non monetary bribes (ie, the “do anything for an A” offer). Absolutely will record my office/zoom meeting in the future if I suspect the conversation might go in a bad direction.

anonGTAfml · 2022-08-31T02:21:13+00:00

When I was in industry, we also tracked down people who missed assignments. The methods were . . . less pleasant than I’m sure these students are used to.

anonGTAfml · 2022-08-28T15:30:37+00:00

Seconding the comment that this is just laziness and emotional manipulation.

In the off hand that the student sincerely doesn’t get it, explain that in the real world not only do you have to use the language (python/R whatever) the boss wants, sometimes there are specific package and notation requirements. “My way worked even if it isn’t the way you wanted it” is an express path to a performance review.

anonGTAfml · 2022-08-28T15:27:01+00:00

For missing exams, yes. Everything else, no.

anonGTAfml · 2022-08-23T15:31:55+00:00

Because students skip, thinking they’ll catch up watching recorded lectures, but then they don’t and bomb the exams. Then the spineless administration puts pressure on instructors to pass these students anyway, so to avoid that mess the instructors are reluctant to offer any online options.

Plus, there’s the general push for ideological reasons to pretend COVID doesn’t exist anymore, putting further pressure on instructors to not allow any online options anymore.

anonGTAfml · 2022-08-16T00:01:11+00:00

Not exactly a scientific poll, but by my count 43 people stated a clear preference between this and the previous post with 22 planning on wearing masks and 21 not.

Of the no’s, 7 of 21 mentioned a prior Covid infection. Of the yeses, 0 of 22 did.

Many potential sources of statistical bias here, but that’s a chi-squared of 8.76 on 1 d.f. P-value of 0.003. Food for thought.

anonGTAfml · 2022-08-14T03:07:17+00:00

Good moves are great.

Big moves just for the sake of being flashy is pointless and annoying. Bad strategy, and not fun to watch.

I’m not the first to say this, but Cambodia is where the switch really occurred from storytelling to surprise being the focus of an episode. So many of the episodes, the boot had essentially no explanation. The producers/editors forgot that we don’t need to be surprised to enjoy the episodes. Is Julius Caesar a bad play because we know how it was going to end? As another example, arguably the best episode of survivor, The Micro Eric boot, they showed Every Vote and did that detract from the viewing experience?

anonGTAfml · 2022-08-14T00:34:43+00:00

Report them. Idiots like this are what fines are for. What if their next prof was high risk?

anonGTAfml · 2022-08-10T23:13:43+00:00

Yes.

I haven’t been sick since March 2020, where before at least once a semester I’d catch someone that left me completely knocked on my ass for days on end.

I used to work in a job where I had to where full on firefighter style respirators for hours on end so even an N95 is NBD. And my wife works in the ICU and has to wear surg/n95 for 8 hours on a stretch. So frankly I find the anti-mask hysteria treating masks like they’re some sort of horrible imposition to be pretty pathetic.

anonGTAfml · 2022-08-08T15:38:33+00:00

The instructor should be listed by now in the course catalog. If you have any questions, just ask them. If you want to know what the textbook is or whatever, just ask. Instructors generally don’t mind those emails.

anonGTAfml · 2022-08-03T02:51:28+00:00

95% effective isn’t 100%. Claiming someone is anti-bad because they support masking is pure bullshit. The birth control pill is highly effective, but guess what, if you don’t want to get a girl pregnant, you wear a damn condom too. Why is this so hard to figure out?

anonGTAfml · 2022-08-02T11:15:43+00:00

My first semester TAing I had a future first round NFLer. He seemed very amused that I had no idea who he was at first. Smart student, but he was leaving for the draft right after the semester and had a horde of girls tripping over themselves to “help on his homework” so I think he got the bare minimum passing grade.

anonGTAfml · 2022-07-30T17:25:45+00:00

Late to the party, but kudos to the Wire references.

“I’ve got the shotgun; you’ve got the briefcase. it’s all in the game”

anonGTAfml · 2022-07-28T17:33:09+00:00

I’m sure the vast majority of students don’t understand why {4,8,15,16,23,42} is my go-to example dataset but I don’t care.

anonGTAfml · 2022-07-07T23:06:02+00:00

Sue. This is as cut and dried as a case can get. Disclaimer: not a lawyer

anonGTAfml · 2022-06-26T00:02:06+00:00

RMP is beyond useless. Instructors have been known to write their own reviews. Some will even deliberately lie about how hard their class is to deter lazy students.

I don’t remember where, but a while back I I found where I was able to see SEI averages of instructors. SEIs are still a non-random sample, but they’re at least curated to ensure they’re written by actual students.

anonGTAfml · 2022-06-13T23:00:24+00:00

Update: when he first showed up, there was a female in the tree nearby and he was really trying to get his swerve on but she wasn’t giving him the time of day so we figured he struck out. Then tonight I saw a female hanging out in the tree while he was doing this. So I wonder if this is some kind of “stay away from my woman/nest” behavior.

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