Hi, blog, how are you?
I feel like writing, but I don't know what I want to write. Actually, I don't really want to write, I just feel like typing a lot. Maybe I should go find a game or something to play. Or maybe I should actually start to edit that stupid NaNoWriMo novel.
Oh, by the way, my coupon for a free print is totally going to expire before the thing is ready to print. Meh.
06 June, 2010
06 May, 2010
05 May, 2010
Someone PLEASE
Someone please explain to me who this douche is that keeps watching me every time I go to the front page of YouTube...
30 April, 2010
Oh em gee!
That is like epic for the win!! My sister still has this jewelry box in the house even though she hasn't lived here for like... probably around ten years now. And she has said that I can raid the jewelry box and take anything I want since she's cleaned out all the good stuff by now. Well, I never really got around to it, but I just randomly got an idea in my head that I want to make some steampunk crap, and the best way to make steampunk crap is to locate all the junk you can find and glue it all together, basically. So I finally decided to raid the jewelry box. Now, I didn't find anything in there that I could really use.
But you know what I did find?
I totally found my dad's class ring from high school! It's pretty sweet, actually! And the sad thing is that it totally fits me :) That's actually pretty epic... I need to show him when he gets home. I don't think he even knows it's still hanging around here!!
But you know what I did find?
I totally found my dad's class ring from high school! It's pretty sweet, actually! And the sad thing is that it totally fits me :) That's actually pretty epic... I need to show him when he gets home. I don't think he even knows it's still hanging around here!!
19 April, 2010
A tip for professors
Okay, let's say you're a college professor. Here's a few tips so that your students don't start to hate you.
DO NOT assign seventeen study questions per chapter on three different chapters... to be done in one week. That's 51 questions. And it's only worth 15 points? TOTAL? I mean, ALL of those study questions lumped together at the end of the semester... 15 points? So not worth it.
Also, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE make your assignments clear. So far, you've told me that you want a "Presentation", which to me means that I just have to get up and talk. Crap. But then I'm supposed to have a three page paper to go with it. Fine, I probably should have expected that. But then you hand out this "Report Format" sheet listing all the questions you want answered, with incredibly ambiguous statements that don't even apply to the article you assigned to me. What do you want? Do you want me to teach the chapter? Do you want a summary of it? Do you want me to fill out the questions you asked in list format? TELL ME WHAT YOU WANT!!!
And don't just read straight out of the book. You're literally standing up front, reading the text out of the book. I can do that. I'm paying thousands of dollars for a bloody education, and you're requiring that I attend every class. So you better put some new information into your lesson, or I seriously don't see the point of coming.
Also, don't ask personal questions of your students. "What reactions did you see in yourself as you were reading the article?" is not going to be answered by those of us who are reserved and non-trusting. Yet I know you're going to take points off for not answering it.
Since we're on the subject, don't ask me to psychoanalyze myself as a class exercise, listing off all of my character flaws, and what I like best about myself. I get that you worked as a counselor. I get that you're convinced that we need to relate to people. Trust me, I know, I'm working on that. But your job as the *counselor* was to fix people. Your current job as the *professor* is to teach. Not to fix. So I will not reveal my soul to the whole class just to finish your stupid in-class assignment, which you're not grading anyway.
That is all for now.
DO NOT assign seventeen study questions per chapter on three different chapters... to be done in one week. That's 51 questions. And it's only worth 15 points? TOTAL? I mean, ALL of those study questions lumped together at the end of the semester... 15 points? So not worth it.
Also, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE make your assignments clear. So far, you've told me that you want a "Presentation", which to me means that I just have to get up and talk. Crap. But then I'm supposed to have a three page paper to go with it. Fine, I probably should have expected that. But then you hand out this "Report Format" sheet listing all the questions you want answered, with incredibly ambiguous statements that don't even apply to the article you assigned to me. What do you want? Do you want me to teach the chapter? Do you want a summary of it? Do you want me to fill out the questions you asked in list format? TELL ME WHAT YOU WANT!!!
And don't just read straight out of the book. You're literally standing up front, reading the text out of the book. I can do that. I'm paying thousands of dollars for a bloody education, and you're requiring that I attend every class. So you better put some new information into your lesson, or I seriously don't see the point of coming.
Also, don't ask personal questions of your students. "What reactions did you see in yourself as you were reading the article?" is not going to be answered by those of us who are reserved and non-trusting. Yet I know you're going to take points off for not answering it.
Since we're on the subject, don't ask me to psychoanalyze myself as a class exercise, listing off all of my character flaws, and what I like best about myself. I get that you worked as a counselor. I get that you're convinced that we need to relate to people. Trust me, I know, I'm working on that. But your job as the *counselor* was to fix people. Your current job as the *professor* is to teach. Not to fix. So I will not reveal my soul to the whole class just to finish your stupid in-class assignment, which you're not grading anyway.
That is all for now.
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