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Many of my students mix up 'in lieu of' and 'in view of', using them interchangeably

Quote from: treeoflife on Today at 12:55:36 PMMy second year student did not know what peer reviewed is.

Undergraduate student, not graduate student, I hope.

Quote from: ciao_yall on February 19, 2024, 03:18:40 PMHad a dream last night about $1,000 sweatpants. Woke up thinking "no way those exist" and not only do they exist, there is news about them.

In fact, one can spend a lot more than $1,000 for sweatpants. Is the market that big for people willing to pay that much? I have a pair from Sweaty Betty I thought were stupid expensive but... they are flattering. And comfortable. They are my nice sweatpants.

Were the kilo-sweatpants at least washable and wearable, unlike some high priced designer skirts that can't be washed or dry cleaned or anything, apparently, and some exorbitant jeans seemingly pre-worn and dirtied and 'destroyed'  to save you the bother.
Outsource authenticity.

Quote from: ciao_yall on March 26, 2024, 08:44:19 AMI bought a car online over dinner with my phone. Signing the paperwork on my phone and picking it up today.

Price and mileage were right and it's a cute color!

(Okay, slight exaggeration. Truth is I picked it out, then had to save the purchase while I moved some money around.)

That's outstanding @ciao_y'all!  Especially finding one with the right price in this day and age. Congratulations!

My second year student did not know what peer reviewed is.

New Jersey City College is beyond saving. I wonder if the campus will have some value.

Quote from: Parasaurolophus on March 18, 2024, 03:52:43 PMThe hatchling is three. Three!

Belated happy birthday to the hatchling!  Was the birthday the day you posted?

Thank you so much for your kind words, @hegemony, @ciao_yall, @apl6, @little bongo, @aside, @clean.

Yes, as I am sure many of you have felt, or may feel, grief will be a lifelong companion, changing shape and weight and features, and will come and go. Right now it's all around the unfinished conversations and missed opportunities and [my] undutiful actions. Later on I hope the happy memories will show their faces more. I am sure I will be caught off guard many times.

I am planning to take up [challenging new hobby] in their memory and hope I can succeed. Right now however I am neck deep in grading, writing, summer teaching, fall planning, etc.   

Thank you again for the kindness. 

The White House is impressive-looking and all, but it is a pretty old house.  You'd be shocked at how much work the plumbing needs.  Unfortunately the necessary appropriation has been stalled in Congress, like so much else.

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Quote from: fishbrains on April 18, 2024, 08:35:25 AMStudents don't know that the words "delve," "tapestry," and/or "whilst" in an essay send professors straight to the AI-generation detector.

While that's understandable, it does seem sad for those students who read a lot and have unusually rich vocabularies.  Although you may teach somewhere that doesn't have any such students.

It's more when all three words are used in the same sentence.

Okay, that does sound a bit suspicious. Must be one doozy of a sentence.

It wouldn't necessarily be diagnostic for my students, who even pre chat GPT seemed to love the chance to trot out SAT words whether they are needed or not. Hardly a final paper goes by without a student telling me that a plethora of evidence supports something, and I've certainly also been informed that they concluded something after delving into said plethora of evidence.