Starlord Posted November 11, 2020 Report Share Posted November 11, 2020 The wife's school is switching to remote learning effective immediately. 400+ HS students quarantined the last two weeks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted November 11, 2020 Author Report Share Posted November 11, 2020 They're calling it a 'Test Out' rather than a 'Sick Out': Some Utah teachers to take sick leave Thursday to demand better COVID-19 protocols and get tested Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted November 11, 2020 Report Share Posted November 11, 2020 10 hours ago, Starlord said: The wife's school is switching to remote learning effective immediately. 400+ HS students quarantined the last two weeks. Your wife is still in high school? ;) Starlord 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted November 12, 2020 Report Share Posted November 12, 2020 Hinting to a pre-med it'd help his grades if he learned multivariable calculus: both true, and unspeakably cruel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted November 13, 2020 Author Report Share Posted November 13, 2020 I'm reminded of the old bit about the pre-med who blurted out in the middle of a calculus lecture, "Why do we have to learn this crap?" The professor calmly replied by saying, "Because calculus saves lives." "Oh yeah," the student retorted. "How?" "By keeping certain people out of medical school." Cancer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted November 13, 2020 Report Share Posted November 13, 2020 My institution has an advising program for people trying to get into medical or dental school. The person who runs the show knows what it takes to get in, and is one of the three bluntest people on campus (I'm another of the three), and if a student is unlikely to make it there's no sugar-coating what it would take to get back on track. There's faculty reps from the four science departments (I've been the one from my department since this program's inception in 2014). We have an astonishing success rate for those who make it all the way through (just above 90%), but there are some kids who can't take the hint and push on despite bad chances. Among the things we do is give two practice interviews to each candidate in the final stages of the process; interviewers are required to have had no prior contact with interviewee (so you can't interview former students of yours, which has meant I don't do many interviews since I've been a fixture in the pre-med physics series for more than a decade). I usually do one or two each year. Some kids are really good. Some kids ... aren't. And while interviewing is a coachable skill and a few kids have had some coaching, I don't give a lot of weight to how slick an interviewee is during the session. I have a few of my own stock questions I ask, some of which I place high weight on. (There are more non-stock questions that come from things I see in the applicant's document package, of course.) My latest stock question so far has caught every candidate by surprise, as something they had never thought about before: "What do you hope people will say about you when you're gone?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted November 13, 2020 Report Share Posted November 13, 2020 On 11/11/2020 at 3:18 PM, Old Man said: Your wife is still in high school? Call the FBI Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted November 13, 2020 Report Share Posted November 13, 2020 Getting interviewed by Dr Satan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted November 13, 2020 Report Share Posted November 13, 2020 Ye-esssssss, CancerDr. Satan purred back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted November 14, 2020 Report Share Posted November 14, 2020 L. Marcus 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted November 14, 2020 Author Report Share Posted November 14, 2020 Just wait until they experience real lab research. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted November 14, 2020 Report Share Posted November 14, 2020 I am pretty sure I've posted this before, but here's the most famous undergrad physics lab write-up of all time. I think that is from the 1990s, but in a sense it is timeless. It also features the best graph-caption combination ever published. Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted November 15, 2020 Author Report Share Posted November 15, 2020 9 hours ago, Cancer said: I am pretty sure I've posted this before, but here's the most famous undergrad physics lab write-up of all time. I think that is from the 1990s, but in a sense it is timeless. It also features the best graph-caption combination ever published. The rest of my M.S. cohort gave their project presentations last week and are submitting their final papers in the next two weeks. I think I'll send this link to them for inspiration. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted November 15, 2020 Report Share Posted November 15, 2020 5 minutes ago, Pariah said: The rest of my M.S. cohort gave their project presentations last week and are submitting their final papers in the next two weeks. I think I'll send this link to them for inspiration. Is is too late for them to change their major to something worthwhile like liberal arts? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted November 17, 2020 Author Report Share Posted November 17, 2020 Today in my physics classes I used a problem that came to me in a dream to demonstrate how to use the work-energy theorem to solve problems too tedious for kinematics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted November 17, 2020 Report Share Posted November 17, 2020 That sounds like most problems involving electrostatic forces and using electric potential, actually. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted November 17, 2020 Report Share Posted November 17, 2020 Academics is overrated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted November 17, 2020 Report Share Posted November 17, 2020 Because nightmares count as dreams? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted November 17, 2020 Report Share Posted November 17, 2020 No, because it is too useful — not useless enough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted November 17, 2020 Report Share Posted November 17, 2020 On 11/14/2020 at 10:54 AM, Cancer said: I am pretty sure I've posted this before, but here's the most famous undergrad physics lab write-up of all time. I think that is from the 1990s, but in a sense it is timeless. It also features the best graph-caption combination ever published. I miss the 1990s. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted November 17, 2020 Report Share Posted November 17, 2020 tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted November 17, 2020 Report Share Posted November 17, 2020 38 minutes ago, Cancer said: I remember this very strip being used in a lecture I attended. I don't remember exactly which class it was, but it was an English class, not a history or political science class. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted November 17, 2020 Report Share Posted November 17, 2020 1 hour ago, Cancer said: Not readable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted November 17, 2020 Report Share Posted November 17, 2020 Didn't do that intentionally. Only version of it that I could find on the Web. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted November 18, 2020 Report Share Posted November 18, 2020 After checking for the first time today, I have a total of 83 registered for my two sections of the 2nd quarter of algebra-based physics next term (the syllabus includes hydrostatics, oscillations, waves, and sound, and electromagnetism). That's about a half-dozen more than any previous total that I can remember. I genuinely did not expect the total to go up in the plague year, though I suppose I should have, knowing what I do about incoming class sizes over time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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