Jump to content

Longest Running Thread EVER


Recommended Posts

  • 2 weeks later...

My teaching schedule just got yanked around, due to the entirely reasonable action of cancelling the course I was to teach this fall because it only had two students registered for it as of August 10.  (Since the incoming class is rather smaller than all projections, and my class was an 8AM class, I rather suspected this would happen.)  Unfortunately, to keep me employed, I am now loaded up with lab classes all year, and I acquired a second lecture class in the spring.  Spring will be brutal.

 

I have to start thinking hard about labs for winter and spring.  Winter especially I am not convinced will be out of lockdown, so the labs will have to be created from next to nothing.  We'll see what I can steal.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Physics (the algebra-based series).  I had one section of the mechanics lab this fall before; I've been teaching the 2nd quarter (fluids, oscillations & waves, and E&M) for fifteen years but we were forced to go virtual after the labs were completed late last winter quarter.  And then the 3rd quarter (optics, thermo, modern physics), which I have taught before, but again not in the on-line environment.  The things that were tried last spring were not popular with the students -- this series includes the notorious pre-med population, the biology students, and then several other majors populated by mathophobes, including the vehemently-believed-to-be-fake SPEX major (though I think those only have to take mechanics, which they are trying to get out of).

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Saw a scrub jay at my house on Saturday.  Hitherto, all the jays I've seen in our neighborhood have been Steller's jays.  They have been seen pretty frequently in other parts of the city, but our neighborhood is a pretty heavily wooded area (and the trees are big evergreens), which is Steller's jay habitat.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 2 weeks later...

It is my studied opinion that Word under Office365 sucks concrete Jersey barriers permeated with green, filthy, toxic slime at the bottom of an illegal hazmat dump backwards through twelve meters of catheter tubing while said tubing is in use, and tries to leave them permanently emplaced in the unfortunate trying to use it.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.

Guest
Unfortunately, your content contains terms that we do not allow. Please edit your content to remove the highlighted words below.
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.

Loading...
  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.
×
×
  • Create New...