[academicsecret] New comment on Where has all the time gone?.

Unbalanced Reaction has left a new comment on your post "Where has all the time gone?":

I'm a grad student at an R1 which also values teaching, but what many, many of the tenured (and untenured) profs do here is just dump more work on us TAs. Not a good solution! :(

...on the positive side, we grad students do get a ton of teaching experience as a result.



Posted by Unbalanced Reaction to academicsecret at 11/25/2007 8:30 PM

[academicsecret] New comment on let sleeping dogs lie?.

Unbalanced Reaction has left a new comment on your post "let sleeping dogs lie?":

While I'd like to say that my lectures are so riveting that this never happens....yeah, right!

Unless the student is snoring at a distracting volume (this actually has happened a few times, and I just have their neighbor tap them awake. Class giggles. We move on.), I wait until the end of class and speak to the offender privately. I often get very entertaining excuses, ranging from "sorry, I'm hungover" all the way up to "sorry, I was in lockup until 6 am."



Posted by Unbalanced Reaction to academicsecret at 11/25/2007 8:25 PM

[academicsecret] New comment on Argh! (A Play in Infinite Acts).

Ms.PhD has left a new comment on your post "Argh! (A Play in Infinite Acts)":

A tale that belongs in Aesop's. Destined to be repeated for the ages.

I have already vowed to do as my advisor did to me, and tell my future students up front that it's part of their job to guess when they're supposed to ignore me.



Posted by Ms.PhD to academicsecret at 11/09/2007 6:06 AM