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Quote from: Hegemony on December 15, 2024, 12:14:49 AMAn advance for an edited collection is not standard. In fact I've never heard of it happening.

I think it depends on the field, but I have never made anything off my first book, and don't expect to on my edited volume I have in press. Monograph #2 I might try to go with a trade press, which is very different, and this is where, rather than a lawyer, you get an agent involved.

Quote from: Parasaurolophus on December 17, 2024, 11:19:01 AMI have to mark stuff for the class I adjuncted. But I'd like to return to the book, too.

Didn't mark. Didn't have the time I anticipated. Only managed a hundred or so book words. Sigh.

Because I have now gone abroad for the rest of the year, I am not doing much that is work-related. If I hear about my manuscript decision, I might pop by and share, but otherwise, have a great holiday season and new year to all of you wonderful research accountability people! "See" you in 2025!

I have that student as well!! The one who doesn't want to know anything about the people who made any discoveries, or the experiments that determined the concepts. Of course, they also complain about my exams which ask students to do things like design experiments, free response, (which is much easier if you know that extra stuff) rather than just selecting the option that best defines the concept.

Quote from: bio-nonymous on December 16, 2024, 01:00:20 PMStudent surveys of opinions on instructions came out early this year! Hurray! An early Christmas gift! A recurring comment theme this year was (paraphrased): "Things that aren't being tested on should be removed from the PowerPoint slides. The slides are too complex and have too many concepts on them that are not on the exams and this makes it hard to study from the slides."

Woe is me...

I think I had your student a few years ago.  I need to stop wasting time explaining concepts and stuff and just focus on showing them how to do the calculations.

Shockingly, I am under the crazy delusion that the concepts are the most important part of the class.  Also, we spend plenty of time doing calculations.

Student who finished the final exam early emailed *while the final exam was still going on* to ask what his grade was. The TAs and I are pretty fast graders, but not *that* fast!
 

Got this one an hour before the final project was due.

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Hey i know this is the worst time for something like this but i lost cell phone service due to not paying my bill, and I cannot log into canvas because I only have my two factor code that gets sent to text. Do you have any possible pointers I just figured this out 15 minutes ago I forgot my service was getting shut off today.
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I gave him our IT service's help line info and they gave him a workaround. I knew it could be done, but wasn't sure how. I found out that students can use a web-app and their school email to get their 2FA codes instead of their phone. And he got his work turned in before the dropbox closed.

I have to mark stuff for the class I adjuncted. But I'd like to return to the book, too.

Grades are due today.  Time for the "Can I please turn in/redo [tiny assignment from weeks ago] for at least partial credit?" emails.

About to submit grades, and two people are going to fail my MA seminar. It's actually a lot of work to fail one of my seminars (and their grades are likely to get them kicked out of the program -- that's how much they worked, or didn't work, to fail). I'm turning on my out-of-office message, and I'm sending all my feedback on everyone's final papers (because I feel I owe them feedback) but scheduling the "send" for tomorrow morning.

I know the students earned the grades they earned, but I hate giving them, and I suspect I've already lost more sleep over it than they have.