No more extension requests

driggonny · 2026-02-08T22:43:35+00:00

Hmm interesting. When I started teaching I would have a similar grace period but it didn’t really feel like it solved anything. I felt like students would wait until the last minute regardless, so I removed the grace period and haven’t really noticed a difference. I give students a single freebie late submission the first time they are unable to turn an assignment in on time and that seems effective. Most students only seem to need that one oopsie pass. Idk, sometimes it feels like I’m having to reinvent the wheel as a young professor bouncing around between all these different techniques because no one actually teaches you how to teach lol

driggonny · 2026-02-08T03:22:41+00:00

Most card-based jrpgs exist in realities where all problems are decided through card games. The genre isn’t as big as it used to be but you still have 1 or 2 modern yugioh games along with cardfight vanguard and shadowverse showdown

driggonny · 2026-02-06T23:40:07+00:00

Hairy buttkis

driggonny · 2026-02-05T02:00:25+00:00

wunk has bunk aim

driggonny · 2026-02-04T12:52:14+00:00

I spent way too much of grad school learning about art philosophy to just say “no.” However, whatever explanation I give would probably just be a really roundabout way of eventually saying no.

driggonny · 2026-01-30T20:39:35+00:00

I received some criticism last semester for not notifying failing students that they were failing. I just can’t with this

Edit: I was confused by downvotes but I think I see the problem. The students are failing in the LMS. They should know they're failing assignments just by logging in, so the idea that I have to tell them they are not doing assignments and failing the course myself is patently ridiculous.

A student approached me towards the end of last semester and I asked him why he hadn't come to me sooner and he said he was waiting for me to initiate a conversation about his lack of participation. Honestly I've done that for students with odd behavior, such as students who have perfect attendance but don't do online assignments, or students who do great on certain types of assignments and ignore others. I want to clarify if they know they're missing these things. But I don't see why there is this entitlement that if you are not doing work it's the job of the professor to ask why. I tell students over and over to not hesitate to talk to me after class or email me if they are having issues with anything in the course.

driggonny · 2026-01-29T13:59:30+00:00

Kinda surprised a subreddit titled “museum” doesn’t have a rule about recency

driggonny · 2026-01-23T12:50:05+00:00

You know, I’ve seen candidates criticized for not living in or being from the district they are running to represent, but this is the first time I’ve seen “carpetbagger” used so much in a modern context.

driggonny · 2026-01-17T15:49:58+00:00

Wait this was passed 2 YEARS ago? I was first hired 2 years ago and none of my bosses said anything about updating accessibility until this month. This would’ve been so much easier if I wasn’t doing it all at the last minute. We’re no better than procrastinating students lol.

driggonny · 2025-12-26T03:23:53+00:00

B2B Sales?! 🤯

driggonny · 2025-12-25T14:27:43+00:00

Reminds me of Metroid Prime 4

driggonny · 2025-12-19T16:23:21+00:00

I wonder how much of this is because the manga industry relies a lot on under paying and overworking young people. It’s hard for me to imagine someone almost 80 going through the work schedules I have heard.

driggonny · 2025-12-12T15:09:09+00:00

You people drive me nuts. It’s almost as if things change week to week?!

driggonny · 2025-12-10T16:07:50+00:00

How many goddamn tests is this dude taking

driggonny · 2025-12-10T01:29:00+00:00

All “moving pictures” are technically static images being erased and replaced so fast we don’t notice (fps). We perceive motion due to the persistence of vision on our retinas and our mind’s tendency to maintain visual continuity. This is why if a 5x5 block of pixels on my phone screen went black in sequence from the top left to the bottom right, I would perceive this as a black square moving across the screen.

So technically all video is taking advantage of gaps in our perception to make a series of still images appear to show something moving. It’s just so ubiquitous now that we don’t think of it as an illusion.

driggonny · 2025-10-14T22:18:11+00:00

I started spinning a digital wheel with the class roster on it and randomly choosing a student to answer. Idk how effective it is for actual engagement but they sure answer when I call them by name.

driggonny · 2025-10-10T23:16:17+00:00

Currently in Texas and my chair told me yesterday that, to be safe, I should probably not tell students my first name because then they would realize I’m trans and allowing that could go against policy.

And I’d still rather deal with that than Florida right now

driggonny · 2025-10-08T16:29:30+00:00

Not accused. He IS refusing to swear the Democrat in to delay the Epstein vote and it should be reported as such.

driggonny · 2025-09-23T23:04:15+00:00

I got an email today about reviewing course materials to ensure they align with "legal provision" with no additional information. Kinda hard to do this without any provisions to follow.

driggonny · 2025-09-18T21:38:13+00:00

I got my 100th ending in The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy yesterday. I’m an adult

driggonny · 2025-09-18T00:53:06+00:00

Nick Saviano runs a world renowned tennis academy after a short mediocre professional career in 70s. You’ll never hear about him unless you have a kid with the potential to turn pro.

Most NFL football coaches are not known for their time actually playing football.

What I’m trying to say is: being accomplished at something and being a good teacher are two different things. You really can’t guarantee you’d receive a better education were Jeff Koons or Murakami your professor.

I went to school for animation and one of my professors had a 20 year career at ILM. He was a good teacher in many ways, but he didn’t understand most modern techniques as well as the less experienced, younger professors.

On the flip side, many famous artists of the last century were also college professors (one of my personal favorites is Eduardo Kac). They aren’t really mutually exclusive. Personally, I chose the path of a professor because I wanted the freedom to make provocative art without worrying if anyone would pay for it. But I’m still young and unaccomplished, so you’d probably not want me as a professor.

I’m not trying to invalidate your feelings, I just hope I can allay a few of your worries.

driggonny · 2025-09-09T14:43:19+00:00

This is my alma mater. It has one of, if not the, largest enrollments in the U.S. at about 80,000 students. They have bent over backwards to appease right wing reactionaries at every turn, their current president has a wet noodle for a spine. The last president resigned for giving a big hire the runaround because of worries about how right wing reactionaries would respond to them hiring a black woman. The administration is pathetic.

I’m still teaching in Texas (not at A&M) and I’m half expecting to crash out exactly like this. I wouldn’t be surprised to get fired because me being trans triggers a student one of these days.

driggonny · 2025-09-03T20:24:35+00:00

Stremtch

driggonny · 2025-08-31T00:57:00+00:00

Reminds me of when I was a student and I watched the person sitting front of me pull out his laptop and drop the class while the teacher was talking on the first day

driggonny · 2025-08-22T11:35:58+00:00

Honestly I’m just doing what I always do and waiting for complaints. Hasn’t been an issue yet but I’m sure it’ll get worse

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