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Quote from: secundem_artem on October 11, 2024, 12:59:47 PMPaper was accepted!!!  Hooray!!  Only had to go through R&R once.

Congratulations!

Quote from: Parasaurolophus on October 11, 2024, 07:56:39 AMToday, more marking and then some presentation and T4 work. It'd be nice to finish the midterms, or get close, since I'll have more next week.

My work time got scuppered again. Sigh.

I did, however, just finish marking this batch of midterms. The average was... 36%. What horrifies me most is how long they all took to write it, given how few questions most of them answered.

Quote from: ciao_yall on October 11, 2024, 09:12:21 PM

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Quote from: dismalist on October 11, 2024, 04:39:19 PMEver heard of gallows humor?

Humor at the expense of other people's misery and grief is never considered funny.

This is the check-in thread for those affected by the hurricanes. The aside thread might be the appropriate place for "gallows humor".

It's not at the expense of other people's misery and grief. It's at the expense of one's own.

From Wikipedia:

Black comedy is common in professions and environments where workers routinely have to deal with dark subject matter. This includes police officers, firefighters, ambulance crews, military personnel, journalists, lawyers, and funeral directors, where it is an acknowledged coping mechanism.

So what is your misery and grief in this situation?

One sister in each hurricane's path. Any further questions?

Quote from: the_geneticist on October 11, 2024, 08:29:03 AM

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Quote from: the_geneticist on October 11, 2024, 06:49:42 AMI posted a reminder that students can get permission to attend another discussion that same week if they ask in advance, list the section(s) they could attend, and there are available seats.
I've had 4 emails saying "oops, I was absent, but any discussion Fridays is good".
There are no discussions on Fridays

Well, at least you weren't on a faculty search where the candidate asked whether it would be possible not to have any classes to teach on Fridays.  We've heard on the Fora of things like that happening. 

"No teaching on Fridays"?  LOL!
If the answer is that there are no classes on Friday afternoons (yes, I worked at a tiny college that did this), it means you will be in committee/department/college meetings all afternoon.
If the answer is, "maybe, if you teach all T Th classes", then your more senior colleagues get first pick.

Unless there is a very particular reason for a limited time (medical care?), then the answer is you have unreasonable expectations, seek employment elsewhere.

Who was that professor who had their offer withdrawn after a 3 page list of requests like that?

I mean, negotiating is fine... but a list of ways you would like to be excused from doing the JOB they are PAYING you to do defies all common sense.

Quote from: dismalist on October 11, 2024, 05:28:58 PM

Quote from: Langue_doc on October 11, 2024, 05:07:54 PM

Quote from: dismalist on October 11, 2024, 04:39:19 PMEver heard of gallows humor?

Humor at the expense of other people's misery and grief is never considered funny.

This is the check-in thread for those affected by the hurricanes. The aside thread might be the appropriate place for "gallows humor".

It's not at the expense of other people's misery and grief. It's at the expense of one's own.

From Wikipedia:

Black comedy is common in professions and environments where workers routinely have to deal with dark subject matter. This includes police officers, firefighters, ambulance crews, military personnel, journalists, lawyers, and funeral directors, where it is an acknowledged coping mechanism.

So what is your misery and grief in this situation?

Quote from: dismalist on October 11, 2024, 04:39:19 PMEver heard of gallows humor?

Ever heard of "Too soon?"

What will be the consequences for his groupmates for his having blown off the group presentation?

Hmmmm.. back in the day (class of '89), Dear Alma Mater required my mom *every single year* to get a letter from an authorized person (clergy, social worker, govt employee, maybe some others) verifying that my father, who had disappeared from our lives and knowledge of his whereabouts, since 1977, was in fact gone and not contributing.   I am thus very sympathetic to the situation of any student in a similar situation whose school presumably would offer no such options, and downgrade financial aid package on assumption that the deadbeat dad could in fact be made to pony up tuition contribution.

Entropy increaseth.

STORM WARNING: HURRICANE BEELZEBUB IS BEARING DOWN ON FLORIDA.  GO AWAY.

DUDE! 
REad the Room and Move On!!!