It’s okay, I’m making these students more resilient. They will thank me for this extra training!
11 Sep 2019
I can’t be the only one who runs before the sun comes up in order to be done before school! Right?!
09 Sep 2019
If we taught you correctly in school, you won’t ever imagine any “real” objects. Those are for the engineers to worry about!
06 Sep 2019
“But wait, isn’t the scientific literature peer-reviewed and free of mistakes?”
“Yes, I think that was the dream at some point…”
04 Sep 2019
I suspect the number of students who ever cover the material in an entire textbook of any kind is vanishingly small. And yet, we often get to the end of the semester thinking that we’ve learned all we need to know about a subject.
02 Sep 2019
The real challenge would be explaining this information loss if information was conserved!
30 Aug 2019
My favourite part is when a physics professor will skip all of the details surrounding a mathematical idea and simply say, “This is what you need to do the calculations here.”
28 Aug 2019
Most of the time, I’m just trying to redirect the conversation toward that specific niche where I feel comfortable.
26 Aug 2019
“Don’t you remember everything you learned last semester? I’m just going to pretend that you do.”
23 Aug 2019