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Midterm Professor Update
World War II: The Japanese Perspective taught by Fessler
Fessler is a wonderful human being. There's a lot of reading in this class but it's not unmanageable; the material is well-organized and well-presented. I got a good grade on the midterm and am pleased with my presentation, already thinking on materials for the final paper. She makes it interesting and rarely bores. Enjoying it.
Introduction to Logic taught by Ladenstatter (or... something)
Can't understand a word he says, and he's so confusing and unclear about what he's trying to say that it literally caused me headaches to hear him lecture. We stopped attending this class and are currently doing pretty badly in it, but I suspect we'd be doing just as badly if we attended. Fortunately, everybody else is doing pretty badly, and so Ladenstatter has been talking about lowering the minimum passing grade. I don't think I did too badly on the midterm -- ask again on Tuesday -- but I'd appreciate that bit of help.
Walt Whitman taught by Keenaghan
Very, very gay. Marginally entertaining. Unfortunately... he's terrible at organization and coherence, I think he "improvises" the focus depend on what interests or strikes him at any given time, and he assigns sometimes ridiculous piles of reading (interspersed with ridiculously little reading)... He's trying to strike at too many aspects of Whitman in what is, essentially, a very small course. No matter how much you try, it is physically impossible to cover every aspect of a human's life in the course of a twice-a-week three-month class. Got a 'B' on the paper.
Planet Earth taught by Delano
One of my favorite classes, and so boring. (Got a 73 on the first test, but he gave everybody 12 free bonus points so it was an 85; got a 91 on the midterm and he gave everybody 10 free bonus points so it was a 101 mwahaha.) It's just him that's interesting. He's very bouncy and excited and funny: today he noticed some people waving their hands in the air in the back while he was talking and he grabbed a huge textbook and sprinted up to them and bounced around, looking for the killer wasp, which turned out to be a fly. He also asked those of us who watch the Daily Show to raise our hands and then squeaked "YES!" and stammered excitedly about it for a few minutes.
After class Val and I went to see him in his office, and we gave him some candy, just because we like him. He was clearly moved, and told us after a couple of bumbling tries that nobody's ever given him candy before.
If you work 70 hours a week, and you try that hard, and you're still that cool, you deserve candy. It makes me warmfuzzy to think that we made his day brighter -- that maybe he'll remember that next time his job gets him down.
On the way out of the earth science department we noticed a chart of the year's hurricane paths. Next to the chart, and the map, and the explanation of the chart and the map, was this image here.
Fessler is a wonderful human being. There's a lot of reading in this class but it's not unmanageable; the material is well-organized and well-presented. I got a good grade on the midterm and am pleased with my presentation, already thinking on materials for the final paper. She makes it interesting and rarely bores. Enjoying it.
Introduction to Logic taught by Ladenstatter (or... something)
Can't understand a word he says, and he's so confusing and unclear about what he's trying to say that it literally caused me headaches to hear him lecture. We stopped attending this class and are currently doing pretty badly in it, but I suspect we'd be doing just as badly if we attended. Fortunately, everybody else is doing pretty badly, and so Ladenstatter has been talking about lowering the minimum passing grade. I don't think I did too badly on the midterm -- ask again on Tuesday -- but I'd appreciate that bit of help.
Walt Whitman taught by Keenaghan
Very, very gay. Marginally entertaining. Unfortunately... he's terrible at organization and coherence, I think he "improvises" the focus depend on what interests or strikes him at any given time, and he assigns sometimes ridiculous piles of reading (interspersed with ridiculously little reading)... He's trying to strike at too many aspects of Whitman in what is, essentially, a very small course. No matter how much you try, it is physically impossible to cover every aspect of a human's life in the course of a twice-a-week three-month class. Got a 'B' on the paper.
Planet Earth taught by Delano
One of my favorite classes, and so boring. (Got a 73 on the first test, but he gave everybody 12 free bonus points so it was an 85; got a 91 on the midterm and he gave everybody 10 free bonus points so it was a 101 mwahaha.) It's just him that's interesting. He's very bouncy and excited and funny: today he noticed some people waving their hands in the air in the back while he was talking and he grabbed a huge textbook and sprinted up to them and bounced around, looking for the killer wasp, which turned out to be a fly. He also asked those of us who watch the Daily Show to raise our hands and then squeaked "YES!" and stammered excitedly about it for a few minutes.
After class Val and I went to see him in his office, and we gave him some candy, just because we like him. He was clearly moved, and told us after a couple of bumbling tries that nobody's ever given him candy before.
If you work 70 hours a week, and you try that hard, and you're still that cool, you deserve candy. It makes me warmfuzzy to think that we made his day brighter -- that maybe he'll remember that next time his job gets him down.
On the way out of the earth science department we noticed a chart of the year's hurricane paths. Next to the chart, and the map, and the explanation of the chart and the map, was this image here.
