Shit weather today led to half an hour spent in the basement at work as a tornado came very close to campus. The emergency warnings led to some people saying, "Do we really need to go to the basement?" Um, the public areas have very large windows because this building was constructed before AC and so there is a LOT OF GLASS THAT CAN SPAGHETTIIZE ( Read more... )

So I've been taking these seminars on instructing first year college students. So far we've discussed ways of learning, course descriptions, that sort of thing. Today we were discussing syllabi. Here's what occurred today. I thought I would share ( Read more... )

So school starts tomorrow. Scott teaches his class on Tuesdays and Thursdays and I teach mine on Wednesdays. so far I have eight students, all girls. My math friends were calculating the odds of this thing gleefully ( Read more... )