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Yeah, I don't usually update this close together, but funny story! My roommate Karen is now referred to as a first season character, but we're in the second season now. She's still talked about and evidence of her existence is still around, but her name is not mentioned in the credits and by next season we'll discover that she's moved away to Paris or something. It fits very nicely as an analogy because Shu hasn't seen her for about three months now. She used to have dinner with us like once a month, but that stopped when Joe and I got "too weird" for her. We were beyond her help at that point she said. It's totally weird, but yeah. The only way to see Karen is by buying the first season on dvd, which I'm assuming will be equated to my 2005 photo album. We are waiting in anticipation for its arrival, but I left the pictures at home and I don't have an album to put them in. There are about 200 pictures and Karen is featured in quite a few "episodes." Well... some anyway.
I added a class! I'm taking Wood Design I now on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 8 AM. I have 8 AMs everyday, they are all studios so I'll at least have some motivation, and a consistent time to wake up. I missed the first class though, and I'm going to miss a class next week, soo erm, awkward first impression with a teacher coming right up. All my studios are going to be awkward because I'm missing them next Thursday and Friday. I'm missing my lab next week too. Oops.
All you kids that go to bigger schools, or schools with large lecture classes, this question is for you: have you ever heard of a system where you have a clicker, and just like a game show answer multiple choice questions with it where the results come up on like a projection at the front of the room? Because I'll be participating in such a system this semester. It's totally bizarre to me, but apparently the university is using my teacher, and others for this experiment to see if it'll be an effective teaching aid once they expand the school within the next two years. We're going to jump from 10,000 (where we're at now, with about a 30:1 student to teacher ratio) to 20,000 with the same number or less professors than what we have now. They're building a huge building that's going to be made of a bunch of "smart classrooms" and they think this click thing will help teachers gauge the progress of classes with about 150 kids. You answer the question, and the results come up on the screen as to how many kids answered it correctly to tell whether the teacher can move on, because it's hard to have discussion with 150 to tell if they are understanding. It's anonymous because you register as a number and this semester he's giving us incentive to participate by giving made extra credit the better we do, and because it is anonymous, you cannot be penalized for a wrong answer. So I have to go buy a $20 clicker and register before next class. I think it's neat, but I don't want to be in a class with 150 people. I hope to get out of here before I see one of those.
I added a class! I'm taking Wood Design I now on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 8 AM. I have 8 AMs everyday, they are all studios so I'll at least have some motivation, and a consistent time to wake up. I missed the first class though, and I'm going to miss a class next week, soo erm, awkward first impression with a teacher coming right up. All my studios are going to be awkward because I'm missing them next Thursday and Friday. I'm missing my lab next week too. Oops.
All you kids that go to bigger schools, or schools with large lecture classes, this question is for you: have you ever heard of a system where you have a clicker, and just like a game show answer multiple choice questions with it where the results come up on like a projection at the front of the room? Because I'll be participating in such a system this semester. It's totally bizarre to me, but apparently the university is using my teacher, and others for this experiment to see if it'll be an effective teaching aid once they expand the school within the next two years. We're going to jump from 10,000 (where we're at now, with about a 30:1 student to teacher ratio) to 20,000 with the same number or less professors than what we have now. They're building a huge building that's going to be made of a bunch of "smart classrooms" and they think this click thing will help teachers gauge the progress of classes with about 150 kids. You answer the question, and the results come up on the screen as to how many kids answered it correctly to tell whether the teacher can move on, because it's hard to have discussion with 150 to tell if they are understanding. It's anonymous because you register as a number and this semester he's giving us incentive to participate by giving made extra credit the better we do, and because it is anonymous, you cannot be penalized for a wrong answer. So I have to go buy a $20 clicker and register before next class. I think it's neat, but I don't want to be in a class with 150 people. I hope to get out of here before I see one of those.