School woes and vidja games
I took back my Earth History class. I decided that having to deal with lateness of presentations is making me resent them more and more each day, and I don't want that. I also figure that, after three presentations, if they haven't fixed their style by now, it's not going to improve with a fourth one. I've two students who need to do a third presentation, but that'll be done on Friday. Then, two weeks of me catching them up on what's going on in our current era. And I asked my TA if she'd like to do some talking on the Himalayan orogeny, as she just spent a semester there and learning the latest stuff, and she very excitedly said yes.
My physical student with all the excuses FINALLY understands that they're not going to come out of class with a good grade. They can still pull out a D with some effort, but I'll be surprised. The current excuse is "I suck at memorizing things" but, as today they came to class 5 minutes late, went to sit down and immediately put they're head down, as they've done for many many classes, I can't imagine problems with memorization is the only problem.
Other fun school things is that the registrar didn't cap our intro classes. The idea is we have 22 students, but during the initial registration for the fall, we cap it at 11 so that we can get incoming freshmen. Most people aren't weirdos like me, who go into college knowing they want to be a geology major, and get interested with the initial class and VOILA! lots of new majors.
So, without the cap, the classes filled up and now we're trying to figure out what to do. We can't, in good conscience, kick out half the students, but we have fixed the cap so that if anyone drops, no one can get into their place. This becomes new issues as one student accidentally dropped and now I need to get them back in. Another student is basically have the adviser plead their case (granted, it may be the adviser's idea to do this) and I'm just sitting around going !?!?!?!
The thought right now is adding 11 students to both mine and Cynthia's classes and those extra 11 students all share a lab with Meg (who offered to teach a third lab). If we do this, we need to work closely together to keep lecture and labs the same which could be really scary but really cool at the same time. As books need to be ordered by Monday (according to Cynthia) this is something we need to decide ASAP. She's already put her order in, but I haven't, so if we decide to do this, I'm going to switch over to her book. And I told adviser that I would get her student in my class/lab if that's the way we go.
So, that's me right now. The craziness that is registration and the ending of the semester.
On the bright side, the new R&C came out yesterday and I've been playing it. It's a bit surreal and my mind is trying to place everything into the universe and I can't quite get it all to fit. I think Nefarious puts the biggest kink in it, though I'm not sure why. I can't remember exactly how he became robotized other than it was by Qwark (or, you know, because of Qwark and his bungling) and I thought it was before R&C became a thing, but I suppose this will answer that question?
Beyond the weirdness of it's a new story for the origin, it's a fun game. The non-cutscenes are stilted though (those times where you are talking with someone to get information or a new quest). But it's pretty. The old gadgets are great to see again (Mr. Zurkon was acquired quickly and so was the groovitron!) and the new ones seem pretty neat too. The drum one is a ball that pulses and does good damage on a wide radius. And the pixalator which makes every baddie it hits look like it should be in DOOM :D
So, yay! Fun games! And I spent the weekend playing LEGO Avengers and the very VERY first character you get to play as is Hawkeye <3 He's also one of the best playables, because he doesn't have some weird feature that slows everything down if you hit the circle button. It's the little things :)
My physical student with all the excuses FINALLY understands that they're not going to come out of class with a good grade. They can still pull out a D with some effort, but I'll be surprised. The current excuse is "I suck at memorizing things" but, as today they came to class 5 minutes late, went to sit down and immediately put they're head down, as they've done for many many classes, I can't imagine problems with memorization is the only problem.
Other fun school things is that the registrar didn't cap our intro classes. The idea is we have 22 students, but during the initial registration for the fall, we cap it at 11 so that we can get incoming freshmen. Most people aren't weirdos like me, who go into college knowing they want to be a geology major, and get interested with the initial class and VOILA! lots of new majors.
So, without the cap, the classes filled up and now we're trying to figure out what to do. We can't, in good conscience, kick out half the students, but we have fixed the cap so that if anyone drops, no one can get into their place. This becomes new issues as one student accidentally dropped and now I need to get them back in. Another student is basically have the adviser plead their case (granted, it may be the adviser's idea to do this) and I'm just sitting around going !?!?!?!
The thought right now is adding 11 students to both mine and Cynthia's classes and those extra 11 students all share a lab with Meg (who offered to teach a third lab). If we do this, we need to work closely together to keep lecture and labs the same which could be really scary but really cool at the same time. As books need to be ordered by Monday (according to Cynthia) this is something we need to decide ASAP. She's already put her order in, but I haven't, so if we decide to do this, I'm going to switch over to her book. And I told adviser that I would get her student in my class/lab if that's the way we go.
So, that's me right now. The craziness that is registration and the ending of the semester.
On the bright side, the new R&C came out yesterday and I've been playing it. It's a bit surreal and my mind is trying to place everything into the universe and I can't quite get it all to fit. I think Nefarious puts the biggest kink in it, though I'm not sure why. I can't remember exactly how he became robotized other than it was by Qwark (or, you know, because of Qwark and his bungling) and I thought it was before R&C became a thing, but I suppose this will answer that question?
Beyond the weirdness of it's a new story for the origin, it's a fun game. The non-cutscenes are stilted though (those times where you are talking with someone to get information or a new quest). But it's pretty. The old gadgets are great to see again (Mr. Zurkon was acquired quickly and so was the groovitron!) and the new ones seem pretty neat too. The drum one is a ball that pulses and does good damage on a wide radius. And the pixalator which makes every baddie it hits look like it should be in DOOM :D
So, yay! Fun games! And I spent the weekend playing LEGO Avengers and the very VERY first character you get to play as is Hawkeye <3 He's also one of the best playables, because he doesn't have some weird feature that slows everything down if you hit the circle button. It's the little things :)