Cancer Posted August 3, 2022 Report Share Posted August 3, 2022 Just imagining what sort of things my mother would have said to Logan's posted item, based on things she actually did say about other courses I took. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted August 3, 2022 Report Share Posted August 3, 2022 27 minutes ago, Cancer said: Just imagining what sort of things my mother would have said to Logan's posted item, based on things she actually did say about other courses I took. Carry on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted August 3, 2022 Report Share Posted August 3, 2022 The institution from which I got my bachelor's had an obscure thing in their regulations, and that thing was that you had to have 90 credits outside your major in order to graduate. That's out of a 180 total. And if you were a double major (and I was), the 90 had to be outside of the union of your majors. That was literally the last general degree requirement I fulfilled there, as I took a 5-credit 100-level sociology course in my final quarter to get to a total of 93 credits outside the majors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted August 3, 2022 Report Share Posted August 3, 2022 Sounds like a major hassle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlord Posted August 3, 2022 Report Share Posted August 3, 2022 Logan D. Hurricanes and Pariah 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted August 3, 2022 Report Share Posted August 3, 2022 On 8/3/2022 at 11:05 AM, Logan.1179 said: Sounds like a major hassle. It wasn't. If anything, it was high comedy. Big classroom, 900 seats or so. Full. Five exams, no final, drop the low exam score. Exams are 50 T/F questions. Of the five of us taking the class together, more than half were taking it pass/fail. We all passed (I think we got A's, actually) the first four exams, so we didn't have to take the last one. Skipped class, but showed up for the last exam. One guy brought a 6-pack into the room. We got our exam, and one guy cracked all the beers open (we each got one), and then we waved a TA over, who looked at us like we were idiots. "Run this one down to the prof," we told her, and we watched her go down to the front and hand the beer to the professor, who glanced up into the room sheepishly. He finished marking an exam key, wrapped a spare exam around the beer, and left. At which point the five of us drank our beers and tried to get zeros on the exam. Do you know how hard it is, after sixteen years of conditioning in classwork, to spot the right answer but deliberately mark a wrong one? It was a strange episode. EDIT: And that's the story of the last exam I took as an undergrad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted August 8, 2022 Report Share Posted August 8, 2022 Tom Cowan 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted August 8, 2022 Report Share Posted August 8, 2022 Fewer grandparents die if you give donuts to your students a few days during the quarter. I have done the experiment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted August 8, 2022 Report Share Posted August 8, 2022 Yes, but what kind of donuts? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted August 8, 2022 Report Share Posted August 8, 2022 Old Man 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted August 8, 2022 Report Share Posted August 8, 2022 Back about 10-12 years ago when I was teaching Math Meth at 8AM, I could get a box of day-olds from a local shop for $3. About a dozen donuts of miscellaneous kinds (whatever hadn't sold the day before), no control of what was in the box, but their day-olds were better than the campus coffee counter's "fresh". Old Man 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted August 8, 2022 Report Share Posted August 8, 2022 1 hour ago, Logan.1179 said: OH MY GOD THESE ARE REAL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted August 8, 2022 Report Share Posted August 8, 2022 I never look up on the Web sexual perversions I had not previously heard of for exactly that sort of reason. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted August 9, 2022 Report Share Posted August 9, 2022 11 hours ago, Old Man said: Yes, but what kind of donuts? Cinnamon-sugar, no filling. No swank, eh? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted August 9, 2022 Report Share Posted August 9, 2022 Old Man and Pariah 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlord Posted August 9, 2022 Report Share Posted August 9, 2022 Honesty is the best policy.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted August 9, 2022 Author Report Share Posted August 9, 2022 Over a decade of experience with parent-teacher conferences tells me that this is not necessarily true. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted August 9, 2022 Report Share Posted August 9, 2022 Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted August 9, 2022 Report Share Posted August 9, 2022 Needs more headlights. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted August 9, 2022 Report Share Posted August 9, 2022 Yeah my partners in school were rarely helpful and often actually held me back. And don’t even get me started on group projects. rravenwood 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted August 10, 2022 Report Share Posted August 10, 2022 My one quasi-success in the pure virtual year was realizing that with multiple group projects over two quarters and largely the same students, I could concentrate the slackers into their own teams. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted August 10, 2022 Report Share Posted August 10, 2022 "What do you mean you published 1 1/2 times this year?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted August 10, 2022 Report Share Posted August 10, 2022 Those often end up as abstracts of contributed papers to scientific meetings, albeit without that explanation for why the work was given up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted August 11, 2022 Report Share Posted August 11, 2022 tkdguy, Pariah and Tom Cowan 1 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted August 12, 2022 Report Share Posted August 12, 2022 And grant reviewers. Don't forget the grant reviewers. Old Man 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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