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The level of petty when the professor bans laptops
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u/berkeleyjake Feb 07 '23
Bring in an entire desktop computer.
It's not a laptop.
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u/Wize-Turtle Feb 07 '23
With a portable generator, of course
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u/berkeleyjake Feb 07 '23
Diesel powered.
Though most rooms have a plug under the desks.
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u/MeanElevator Feb 08 '23
That's for the humidifier
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u/_austinm Feb 08 '23
Don’t forget the dehumidifier to place right beside it
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u/MeanElevator Feb 08 '23
Probably will need a backup generator for that.
Might have to consider a diesel pump to transfer water into the humidifier and out of the dehumidifier (via a rudimentary sump arrangement), just to be safe.
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u/_austinm Feb 08 '23
Might as well throw in a space heater just in case
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u/Zentienty Feb 08 '23
What about emergency back-up systems and continuous power?
A stand-by duplicate system and lithium battery tower should support redundancy and UPS requirements for this Frankenstein note taking machine.
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u/MeanElevator Feb 08 '23
Portable AC unit too. Might get a bit warm with all the generators.
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u/_My_Angry_Account_ Feb 08 '23
Just use an unplugged UPS so its constantly beeping the whole time the computer is on.
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u/UndeadMarine55 Feb 07 '23
This guy has upper management material written all over him.
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u/SvensTiger Feb 07 '23 edited Feb 08 '23
Got a meeting with the Bobs.
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u/DirtySoap3D Feb 08 '23
The Bob's what?
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u/RatSlayerr Feb 08 '23
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u/DirtySoap3D Feb 08 '23
I got the reference. Just making a joke about using an apostrophe for a plural.
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u/RatSlayerr Feb 08 '23
understood, enjoy your night
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u/ddh85 Feb 08 '23
Looks like someone's got a case of the Mondays.
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u/RokulusM Feb 08 '23
No, man. Shit no, man. I believe you'd get your ass kicked saying something like that.
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u/DaddyMcTasty Feb 07 '23
This professor Willy Wonka'd him, he's now the professor
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u/AnnaFlaxxis Feb 07 '23
Delicious
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u/Ok-Interview8476 Feb 07 '23
Is there a sub for delicious compliance?
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u/JaneDoe1997 Feb 07 '23
Yes! r/deliciouscompliance but it is for food requests 😅
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u/w-o-w-b-u-f-f-e-t Feb 07 '23
And is there a sub sub reddit for nutritious compliance?
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u/Tuckingfypowastaken Feb 08 '23
but unlike half of that sub, it actually happened
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u/GuyWhoSaidThat Feb 07 '23
I had a professor that would lock the door so that if you left to go to the bathroom, you couldn't get back in. I cracked the door and plopped down my bag to keep it open. He stopped class to yell at me for disrupting his lecture. I reported him. Turns out I wasn't the first to do so.
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u/phony8882 Feb 07 '23
The obsession so many teachers/professors have with people going to the bathroom is bizarre.
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u/MegaMania321 Feb 07 '23 edited Feb 07 '23
I don’t even understand why they even care.
If they’re skipping out they’re skipping out, it’s ultimately the student’s loss.
Unless I’m mistaken and there’s an evaluation system that takes this into account.
Edit: to clarify, referring exclusively to post-secondary/university education and not obvious cases such as exam time.
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u/1668553684 Feb 07 '23
It's even worse: by locking the door, they're not even punishing the ones skipping. They're literally just punishing the ones who legitimately have to take care of something and come right back.
It's creepy and shitty as fuck.
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u/robynnjamie Feb 08 '23
“Sir, do you not understand how much coffee I need to consume in order to stay conscious every day. I also need to go pee once every 30 mins because I am a human and do not need your consent to do so. It will be twice as distracting for you if I evacuate my bladder IN the lecture hall during your lecture.”
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u/aSharkNamedHummus Feb 08 '23
My brother had a professor who personally targeted him for going to the bathroom during lectures. The guy had one hell of an attitude change once my brother reported him to the disabilities office, since my brother was in the middle of an ulcerative colitis flareup.
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u/SnooMaps9864 Feb 08 '23
“Sir I am literally bleeding on the seat”
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u/blonderaider21 Feb 08 '23
Seriously how can any teacher of any level prevent ppl from going to the bathroom? As someone with heavy periods I could go during the break and need to go back 30 minutes later to change. Fuck those ppl
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u/SneezeBucket Feb 08 '23
We had a "mature" student, in his 30s, hop up and head to the bathroom. The lecturer really didn't like it, and she snapped at him for disruption. He just rolled his eyes and said, "People like you scared me away from Uni the first time. I'm going to the bathroom, and I'm coming back afterwards."
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u/IHavePoopedBefore Feb 08 '23
A mature student put the lecturer in his place during my time too.
The teacher tried to say something about how in the real world you can't expect special treatment. I don't even remember how he meant it, I think he meant that you can't just expect to leave and then come back as though you didn't just interrupt the lecture... Which makes no sense.
The mature student just said that anywhere in the world that someone gives a lecture they have no power to stop people from coming and going. And that maybe he's the one that needs real world practice if someone going to the washroom throws off his lecture, then she just left and went to the washroom and came back
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u/bigdogcum Feb 08 '23
That's what happens when you've been in school from kindergarten to the age of 50
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u/cat_prophecy Feb 08 '23
It’s 100% just a power play. “I am in charge and do what I say”. You can’t reason with them because there is no logic behind it.
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u/FlakkaFish Feb 08 '23
You know, it doesn't make sense. Aren't they technically the employee?
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u/TheSecretNewbie Feb 07 '23
There is an evaluation system in place for some universities. At my undergrad your evaluation was based on your students overall reception and graded your performance in tandem with the overall GPA of that class.
If a lot of students failed your class you were up for review and could possibly lose your job. Also if too many students dropped your class, the school would have to pay back federal funding that the students received from loans or federal aid. On the other hand if too many students did well in your class you could also be held for evaluation for being too “easy”
Am Graduate Student and we have talked extensively how difficult it is to address teaching when there is such a wide variety of students in the classroom, especially intro classes.
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u/Octavus Feb 08 '23
In my linear algebra class my professor clearly knew the material, what he didn't know unfortunately was the English language. That was the only class that I dropped that I was later contacted by the dean on why I dropped it.
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u/tfarnon59 Feb 08 '23
This is why it's always good to know a second language. Chances are, if everyone in an average college class knows a second language, one of them will know the prof's language.
It happened to me when our regular diff eq prof was having her baby. The substitute's first language was Russian, and his English wasn't great. My third language happens to be Russian, so when another student had a question and the prof went off course, I kind of blurted out: "No, he (the other student) wants to know this..." in Russian. The prof didn't even miss a beat, and answered the other student's question in English. Heavily accented, but understandable.
Unless a professor was speaking a language I don't know (I only know three), I pretty much could figure out what he or she was saying no matter how thick the accent. The trick to that was reading the chapter in the textbook that corresponded to the lecture subject ahead of time.
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u/Pixels222 Feb 08 '23
The trick to that was reading the chapter in the textbook that corresponded to the lecture subject ahead of time.
You just figured out the trick with life basically
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u/SomeoneStoleMyBacon Feb 08 '23
Use to have an econ professor who nobody got a higher than 70 score in ever. A class of 200 and the average for all the tests was 45%... yet somehow We all got A's, B's, and C's
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u/Drivingsong_sandwich Feb 08 '23
He didn’t wanna lose his job and knew how to keep it. Plain and simple. There’s your years old question answered
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u/mrsdoubleu Feb 08 '23
I was told by my old Biology professor that the grades in any college course should look like a bell curve if the professor is decent. Not sure how true that is since I barely passed the class, but it makes sense. Oddly enough, that was actually the first class I took in college that made me realize I wasn't going to be able to breeze through college like I did high school. I actually have to study! 😳 Lol.
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u/havereddit Feb 08 '23
At my institution this would be an automatic 'academic freedom' grievance. Students are in no way prepared or competent enough to judge things like the prof's knowledge of subject matter, their disciplinary competence, or even their teaching effectiveness, so we have moved to a system where student course evaluations are labelled as 'perceptions', and these summary perceptions are only one component of assessing teaching competence. And I have never heard anyone even mention anything like 'drop out rates' or 'failure rates'. I would HATE to be a prof in such a system.
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u/ElectricalYowler Feb 07 '23
In high school in the USA, at least in some areas, students wandering the halls can come back to bite the teacher. Students also must have passes which have to be written and signed by the teacher, so it's sometimes a big disruption to the lesson if the teacher has to stop to write a pass. The teacher also often knows when drills are taking place and might tell a student that it's not a good time because there's about to be a fire drill or something similar where they have to account for every student quickly.
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u/XanLV Feb 07 '23
Creating a non-existant problem and then spending all their time and resources to combat it.
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u/ShakeandBaked161 Feb 07 '23
Kids at our schools wouldn't stop starting fires in the bathrooms lol
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u/IM_A_WOMAN Feb 08 '23 edited Feb 08 '23
Has your school considered hanging up smokey the bear posters in the toilets? Maybe the kids don't know they aren't supposed to light fires in there.
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u/BangkokPadang Feb 08 '23
Whoah. Only I can prevent bathroom fires. I get it now.
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u/ShakeandBaked161 Feb 08 '23
After the first 3 they installed some like 80 security cameras. This was a school for 1600 kids and was back in like 2012.
The last straw was when someone lit the toilet paper on fire in one of those massive plastic toilet paper holders. So much black smoke lol
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u/MegaMania321 Feb 07 '23
Oh definitely, I’ll clarify in my original comment that I’m moreso referring to post-secondary.
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u/dielawn87 Feb 07 '23
A lot of people in academia are type a, controlling fucks. I'm a professor and surrounded by these dickcheeses.
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u/WilliamMinorsWords Feb 08 '23
I also teach college, and I'm the opposite of Type A. I'm like Type Z. I cannot be bothered to give two fucks about who is going to the bathroom or using a laptop. I can't keep track of that.
Students have told me I'm not like other instructors, that I'm "cool" and "laid back." I'm not trying to be that way to win their favor. I just honestly don't give a damn.
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u/playballer Feb 08 '23
That’s what makes you cool. You’re probably the first person to actually treat them like adults
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u/WilliamMinorsWords Feb 08 '23
I manage people professionally the same way.
Are you doing your job? Cool. Don't bug me unless there's a crisis or you need help.
I'll occasionally make the rounds to see if everything's cool, but I'm going to assume everyone is a professional and an adult and you don't need me to intervene.
We cool? K.
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u/SomeoneStoleMyBacon Feb 08 '23
and as we know nobody gives a fuck about adults (unless they are old enough to serve or want to have an abortion)
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u/WilliamMinorsWords Feb 08 '23
The beauty of being a woman over 40 is that you become invisible again. Nobody cares about you.
I am floating through life and nobody notices me. I once was a legislated body, but now I've disappeared again.
I can be insidious and dangerously effective that way.
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u/JagmeetSingh2 Feb 07 '23
I had a prof who insisted we ask for permission before going to the bathroom…in a 300 person lecture, safe to say that was dropped
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u/CRM_Ensemble Feb 07 '23
I kind of get it for exams. We know some of you legitimately need to use the restroom, so we can’t ethically stop you. We also know that many of you are using your phones to cheat.
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u/Adept_Investigator29 Feb 07 '23
It's about control or something. I was a teacher for several years, and I never interrupted people's toilet breaks. Nunma.
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u/The_Woman_of_Gont Feb 07 '23
God damn, that would be batshit even in a high school, but dude was really locking adults into a room to ensure they can't take care of their bodily needs?
Fucking crazy. And let me take a wild guess, he was tenured.
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u/GuyWhoSaidThat Feb 07 '23
He was not, this school did student evaluations mid semester. Enough complained about him that he was fired. Had a replacement professor one day, and it was weird switching up halfway through.
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u/averagecommoner Feb 08 '23
Good riddance. Should've sued his dumbass.
People on meds and disabilities gotta do what they gotta do sometimes. Try and stop that and see your ass get dragged by a judge.
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u/signedupfornightmode Feb 07 '23
We rebelled hard in college when an adjunct for an elective level class made us raise our hands to use the bathroom. We also had class discussions but you couldn’t speak freely, you had to be called on. So then no one bothered raising their hand, and then we got yelled at for not participating. We ripped her to shreds in the evaluations for treating a bunch of juniors and seniors like high schoolers…and for general teaching incompetence.
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u/Skeletorfw Feb 07 '23
Had a student ask me recently whether bathroom breaks would count towards absences and I was utterly floored.
Fucking no mate, if you need to sort something out then you don't need to say a word or worry about timings on my side. Hell my stomach doesn't work so who the fuck am I to judge? The rule I told them all afterwards was simply that if you're missing a load of the class time then it will be harder to pass the course, but your bodily integrity and needs trump this every day of the year. They're adults and they're humans, they deserve fucking respect.
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u/Lttlcheeze Feb 07 '23
Take notes from the guy in the video. Take a shit in the corner of the room while grunting loudly.
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u/extrarogers Feb 07 '23
if i were locked out, i would be tempted to just start knocking and knocking at the door until he opened it, then slip inside and say “thanks!” before he could tell me otherwise.
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u/jooes Feb 08 '23
I had teachers in high school who would lock the door as soon as the bell rang. They hated late students.
If they're anything like those teachers, they wouldn't care. They were stubborn as fuck, they'd let you bang on that door all period long just to prove a point.
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u/ArticleOld7972 Feb 07 '23
In his defense, I can’t read my own handwriting.
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u/NocturneHunterZ Feb 07 '23
I wrote beautifully when i was little, now it's so shit that even a doctor has a hard time reading it ...
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u/Snoo33903 Feb 07 '23
Once I wrote a memo and it was so badly written the office took a pool to see who could guess what was written.
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u/Font_Snob Feb 07 '23
*DING*
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u/sporeegg Feb 07 '23
*krrrrrt*
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u/No_name_Johnson Feb 07 '23
clacka clacka clacka clacka clacka
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u/Marrsvolta Feb 07 '23
Why would he ban laptops?
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u/hotmasalachai Feb 07 '23
It's “distracting”
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u/cheerioo Feb 07 '23
I've been in classes before where a third to half the class was playing/watching video games or just browsing social media the entire time. It was actually really distracting for me to see sitting behind them tbh. So anyway I just moved to the front.
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u/basicwhitelich Feb 07 '23
Sat behind a kid in trig that spent the whole class playing games. He got real good at slenderman right before he dropped out.
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u/OminousOnymous Feb 07 '23
I took trig in community college and sat by a kid who would play games on his TI-86 the whole class. And when I say "kid," I mean kid; he was like 14.
He was always the first one done with the exams.
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u/ribbons_undone Feb 07 '23
Honestly every person I have known able to play games on a calculator has been super smart and even tho they fucked off in class they got straight As
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u/saichampa Feb 07 '23
I wrote a game that could use the link cable between two calculators to do multiplayer which got popular at my school. All through to grade 10 I could get straight As without studying. Then I got into more complex maths and hit a wall because I didn't know how to study and it didn't just come to me like all the previous math had.
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u/ultimate_9 Feb 07 '23
God this hits so close to home. Got through education up to age 16 easy then after that it stopped clicking without thinking. Problem was I hadn't learned how to learn so everything rapidly went wrong after that.
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u/saichampa Feb 07 '23
I've spent my adult life since beating myself up for not understanding something straight away and I'm having to learn it's okay not to know things
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u/mycofirsttime Feb 08 '23
I was considered “gifted” when it came to English/language. I felt it was easy and didn’t really understand that it was a “gift”, i got super frustrated in any other subject and gave up. I was technically a drop out (went the whole time just didn’t do all requirements for graduation). After getting testing at 30, i realized and learned HOW TO LEARN, and was able to go back and get a college degree and better jobs. I’ve taken up learning other things that were hard for me back then, realizing it takes a lot more effort. I’m not bragging for having any gifts, I’m mortified for taking it for granted and not realizing others didn’t have that.
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u/upthewatwo Feb 07 '23
That "didn't know how to study" hits hard. I think I was basically as smart as a 15yo when I was 5yo, but never progressed beyond that because I literally don't know what people mean by "study" or "revise." Do you mean read? Do you just read? Or is studying only reading the stuff you highlighted for some reason 6 months ago?
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u/saichampa Feb 07 '23
Thankfully I had learnt how to learn somewhat in University but I still only managed an average GPA (partly influenced by poorly managed ADHD and other mental health issues). I'm at a place now where I'm trying to learn things slowly rather than trying to understand everything as quickly as possible.
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u/BDCMatt Feb 07 '23
Meanwhile one of the kids in my chem 2 course would sit on his phone the entire class playing games. First one up on test days, scored like a 98 in the course.
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u/Jay-diesel Feb 07 '23
Sit in the T zone. From rows and isles. The t zone has higher scores amongst students than non t zone student.
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u/Undrende_fremdeles Feb 07 '23
I which case I would hope the exams were made in ways that actually needed students to prove knowledge and competency about the subjects at hand.
Like free form answers.
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u/Marrsvolta Feb 07 '23
Some people have no business being in a teaching position
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u/xOverDozZzed Feb 07 '23
Seriously, if they’re doing something other than learning. The grade will affect them.
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u/InvolvingPie87 Feb 07 '23 edited Feb 07 '23
It’s for the people sitting behind the computer normally. One person watching football on their laptop can distract 6+ students if it’s a more boring lecture
I know because I’ve been the distracted student
Edit since some of y’all are getting really aggressive for no reason: even my favorite professors had boring lectures. It depends on the material and how much time they have. If they aren’t getting a massive crunch then they can be engaging and take their time, but sometimes it just can’t play out that way. Lost days to 4 feet of snow over the weekend, lost them due to threats of violence on the campus, lost them from covid. You have to work with what you got, and some classes have so much content that the professor can’t spend their time making sure everyone is having a good time or that nobody is distracted by a laptop in front of them. A dry lecture on the chemistry of gases at 8:30 AM is a rough time for anyone to learn at attention to. Don’t be so high and mighty about “a good student won’t get distracted”
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u/schubox63 Feb 07 '23
We had a professor that had a "no internet zone" in the first few rows. You agreed to only take notes and not get on other things that could distract people. Behind that he said he didn't care, you were only hurting yourself, but know that if you sat back there you were at risk of being distracted by other people.
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u/Gangsir Feb 07 '23
I've had a prof do something similar, but it was two halves of the class. Entire left side was notes only (enforced by TA sitting the back), with the right side being able to do whatever.
Most people ended up sitting on the left side lol
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u/lamewoodworker Feb 07 '23
That’s why I sat in the back during the World Cup. Granted everyone else was watching as well and the professor asked for updates. It was a fun few days during the group stages
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u/MrPoopieMcCuckface Feb 07 '23
I was annoyed when the same thing happened to me. its friday and the last class so I get it, no one wants to be there but this class was specialized and I only get a few days with it and one of those days was wasted with world cup updates.
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u/N_Rage Feb 07 '23
I have attended lectures by this very professor in this exact lecture room, this is exactly his reasoning as well
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u/Hobbamoc Feb 07 '23
That's academia though: A lot of people get awarded tenure for research and for some reason that also entails a mandatory bit of teaching.
And it shows
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u/CoverYourMaskHoles Feb 07 '23
Distracting me from scrawling illegible garbage notes on a piece of tree.
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u/SrslyCmmon Feb 07 '23 edited Feb 08 '23
One of my most successful learning tools was taking a day and rewriting my notes for the class before an exam. (Mostly for general ed info regurgitation type classes)
Yes it was tedious but if you were diligent in class about getting everything down it paid off.
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u/DSquizzle18 Feb 07 '23
I did this too. Something about hand writing stuff made it stick in the old noggin.
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u/Epic_Cole Feb 07 '23
ive had a younger professor who banned all phones and laptops during his lectures, which was stated in the syllabus as the generic "classroom distraction", because he said he knows thats a reason that the higher ups will accept. on the first day, he explained that the real reason is because he witnessed a student in the front row watching porn in a massive lecture hall for 20 minutes straight.
great professor, lectures were so good and enjoyable, you really didnt need a laptop for anything anyway, the lecture would have been more interesting than any laptop distraction lmao
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u/RamHead04 Feb 07 '23
I mean… who the hell is watching porn in the front row of a lecture hall? Why wouldn’t they sit in the back with all the other people that are present physically but not mentally?
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u/Epic_Cole Feb 07 '23
Let's be real, that would require basic brain function, and if they're watching porn in a class they paid to be in, they probably lack that
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u/Flamewarsux Feb 07 '23
Professor I had a few years back banned it because it was distracting. Ended up being the worst professor I’ve ever had and realized that him not having 100% focus on him genuinely pissed him off. If you entered a class late he would take you out the room and talk to you about it or go on a long rant how coming in late distracts the entire class and disrupts the lesson while being oblivious at the fact that his rant is the disruption and not the person walking in late who disrupts the class for two secs.
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u/crazyprsn Feb 07 '23
Not everyone who knows about their subject is meant to teach it. I think that's a problem with a lot of professors.
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u/wenchslapper Feb 07 '23
Another huge issue is that being a professor is a multifaceted job where people are drawn in by said facets. My college Chem 1000 professor said it very well- “some people become professors to teach and do research on the side, while others do it to research and only teach because it’s a requirement of the job.”
The best research usually comes from the latter, which is what gets the school it’s funding.
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u/Florolling Feb 07 '23
I can respect this level of petty.
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u/chipvd Feb 07 '23 •
It takes a strong person to admit their handwriting was never meant for this world.
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u/thebardbecoming Feb 07 '23
It takes a strong person to admit their handwriting was never meant for this world.
Mine is next level toddler. Random capitalized letters, just anarchy
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u/Naive-Government8333 Feb 07 '23
Same thing happened in the movie Back to School. Classic scene where Dangerfield’s character, Thornton Melon, sends his secretary to take notes during a lecture.
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u/Thentheresthisjerk Feb 07 '23
Whoever wrote his essay didn’t know the first thing about Kurt Vonnegut.
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u/hahanawmsayin Feb 07 '23
… and another thing, Vonnegut! I'm gonna stop payment on the check!
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u/No-Turnips Feb 07 '23
I’m a professor and I laughed out loud at this. Why would any professor ban laptops? That’s how most students take notes now.
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u/lindseylush89 Feb 07 '23
Seriously I can’t imagine having to handwrite everything the teacher is saying quickly enough. Laptops are key for learning.
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u/AnInnocentGoose Feb 07 '23
That was a problem I had when I was at school and I'm not even that old. Teacher had to repeat multiple times and make sure everyone had caught up. Extra points for winter mornings where your fingers would literally just slow down.
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u/Scherzkeks Feb 07 '23
You just create your own short hand with mainly keywords noons and verbs and abbreviations if you can’t write fast enough so that later when you review your notes you can be confused by all of the things you had to leave out
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u/cutofmyjib Feb 08 '23
"...FET junction sat. inverse..involt?...I am so fucked for my midterm"
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u/OSSlayer2153 Feb 07 '23
It’s inversely proportional to handwriting.
A lot of people with bad handwriting actually write pretty fast since the messy style is easier to write faster.
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I could never get used to using laptops to take notes after having used notebooks all through school. I was one of the only holdouts in my masters programme.
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u/debugging_scribe Feb 07 '23
I started uni using my laptop. Realised typing was so automated I never absorbed any information. So I switched to notebooks and my grades sky-rocketed.
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u/DoctorWaluigiTime Feb 07 '23
Bought a laptop specifically for note-taking in college. Piece of junk, but could take notes. And I type far faster than I write, plus can arrange notes/etc. during it as well.
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u/lets_get_off_reddit Feb 07 '23
I actually think all of my classes in college banned laptops.
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u/Lone_Nox Feb 08 '23
I have permanent damage to my dominant hand from a work injury. It makes writing for long periods of time impossible this professor is an idiot and this would probably be my solution.
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u/professormagma Feb 08 '23
under rated comment. there are a bunch of physical and mental disabilities that benefit from technology in note taking.
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u/StrawberryClover8 Feb 08 '23
I have a similar issue, but I was born with it, and my English teacher CONSTANTLY gives me shit even tho I have a recognized typing accommodation.
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u/Lone_Nox Feb 08 '23
I hate when people are like that. The only outward sign of my damage is a scar on my palm and wrist so since I'm an otherwise healthy looking 23 year old male people assume I shouldn't need any sort of accommodations
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u/Radgost Feb 08 '23
Dude I feel you, I have carpal tunnel syndrome from playing handball AND fucking ADHD on top of that, without a laptop to take notes I would've dropped out after a week.
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u/shay-doe Feb 07 '23
I am impressed he found a working type writer to bring to class.
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u/MainSailFreedom Feb 07 '23
Typewriters were made to last. I have one from 1917 (Smith Corona #3) and it still works great.
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u/NoDadYouShutUp Feb 07 '23
boomer dream sequence
We used to make things
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u/RipplePark Feb 07 '23
They still do. The www that is being used to relay your message was invented by someone who is now 67 years old.
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u/lukethelibrarian Feb 07 '23
Now I'm wondering if it's this guy who was looking to borrow a typewriter for this purpose recently on r/sanantonio
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u/MarketingCapable9837 Feb 07 '23
You can thank Tom Hanks for hoarding the world’s supply of typewriters
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u/Ksan_of_Tongass Feb 08 '23
In college level classes why care? It's basically free money for the school. It's more of a control issue than any real care for student learning.
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u/brian0820 Feb 07 '23
A genius PETTY defense beats an idiotic PETTY offense every day 24/7!!!
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u/Error404Cod Feb 07 '23
Brings iPad with attachable keyboard
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u/jonsticles Feb 07 '23
My very loud wireless mechanical keyboard and a tablet.
...nah, this guy did it better.
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u/kitchen_synk Feb 07 '23
I know people, and was people, that would have clubbed together to lug in a full desktop PC, monitor, and peripherals in defiance of this rule.
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u/raygungreg Feb 07 '23
If you’re a teacher in 2023 and ban laptops, you need to retire.
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u/cutofmyjib Feb 08 '23
I had a math prof who refused to use the projector in a class of 300, he wrote really small too.
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u/TheBravan Feb 08 '23
Professor banning laptops is(in part at least, some are just.....) a generational-gap problem, fewer and fewer are genuinely capable of writing fast and well enough to take notes with a pen/pencil....
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u/fracturedpersona Feb 08 '23
University professors are so fucking petty. I actually took my physics professor to small claims court and won, which opened the flood gates. So many students followed suit and sued him for the same cause that he retired and moved back to China.
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u/Illustrious_Jury1687 Feb 08 '23
Just throwing this unpopular opinion out there..but if I'm paying for your class... I'm basically paying for your experience and ability to communicate problems and solutions while allowing students to remember.
If you have to take away laptops I find it more of a control issue than an education issue..
Colleges (I find) hate the internet cause it freed education away from the controlling institutions.
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u/Mrspygmypiggy Feb 08 '23
My teacher banned laptops in our class because she was old school and wanted everyone to write it down on paper. The look on her face was fucking priceless when I wandered up to the board and just took a picture of the notes.
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u/freeturk51 Feb 08 '23
I hate when teachers are technology phobic. I will take a note on my laptop you bastard, if I dont listen to the class and play Hexball instead, that is my problem not yours
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u/GamerOfGods33 Feb 07 '23
Ive got a typewriter from the 60s and I'll be keeping it on hand for this occasion.
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u/paradoxx_42 Feb 07 '23
Draw on a little chalkboard and make it screech