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« Reply #2595 on: November 20, 2009, 08:16:12 AM » |
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I have almost made it through the anticipated Week from Hell without too much trauma!
Thanks, systeme_d, for the view of a good class moment!
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« Reply #2596 on: November 20, 2009, 05:58:16 PM » |
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I love that look on a student's face - the joy and the relief all at once. Who hasn't rejoiced in that feeling at least once?
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This place stinks like a pair of armoured trousers after the Hundred Years' War.
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« Reply #2597 on: November 20, 2009, 09:16:52 PM » |
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After an absolutely miserable teaching day, my boyfriend gave me a long back rum, poured me a drink, and helped me focus on the positives.
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I have no tolerance for swinish behavior, except from actual swine.
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« Reply #2598 on: November 20, 2009, 09:20:16 PM » |
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After an absolutely miserable teaching day, my boyfriend gave me a long back rum, poured me a drink, and helped me focus on the positives.
I suspect a Freudian slip. Did you mean "back ru b" rather than "rum"? Anyway, I am happy with a beer and a big bowl of chili and a new book to read; I can put off the grading until tomorrow. |
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Unfortunately, I think conjugate gives good advice.
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« Reply #2599 on: November 20, 2009, 09:21:53 PM » |
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After an absolutely miserable teaching day, my boyfriend gave me a long back rum, poured me a drink, and helped me focus on the positives.
I suspect a Freudian slip. Did you mean "back ru b" rather than "rum"? Anyway, I am happy with a beer and a big bowl of chili and a new book to read; I can put off the grading until tomorrow. Yes! Maybe I've had one too many and should move to PWP? I'm putting off the grading until Monday. |
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I have no tolerance for swinish behavior, except from actual swine.
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« Reply #2600 on: November 20, 2009, 09:36:13 PM » |
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The following is just about the only thing that made me smile in the past couple days. Lots has happened in addition to, and unrelated to, my colleague's passing.
Background: A scientist can always bury themselves in the lab for distraction. I was in a marathon session of digital microscopy in preparation for a lab practical. I was trying without much success to get quality images of the male urethra. After going through more than a dozen slides, I actually said outloud to me, myself and I:
"Why, why, why is it so hard to find a good peni$?"
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"Oh, PLANS, PLANS, PLANS -- how we make plans into the future, as if the future will most certainly be there!" -- John Irving
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« Reply #2601 on: November 20, 2009, 10:03:39 PM » |
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Ms_T: Bwahahahaha! I'd have fallen all over myself if I had come up with that one!
BTW, the invitation still stands!
My inhale? I finished ALL the grading that I have up to this point!
Of course, on Monday I get a whole bunch of research papers to grade. *sigh*
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...only after reading gm's post, my new mantra is "always listen to gennimom".
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« Reply #2602 on: November 21, 2009, 05:20:48 AM » |
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One of my PhD students passed her (UK) viva voce. After minor corrections, she should be done and doctored in a couple of weeks.
Huge inhale (for both of us).
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« Reply #2603 on: November 21, 2009, 11:37:16 AM » |
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One of my Ph.D. grad students is working his way through a very tricky mathematical derivation. He showed it to me at our meeting yesterday, and managed to move past a couple of roadblocks to get something that looks like it's going to work out.
Awesome.
Plus I really love looking at a page of math. Don't know why - it's just beautiful to me.
For information on one of my other PhD students, please see the Venting Thread...
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« Reply #2604 on: November 21, 2009, 11:39:35 AM » |
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S_T, I like the cut of your jib.
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« Reply #2605 on: November 21, 2009, 12:00:46 PM » |
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Plus I really love looking at a page of math. Don't know why - it's just beautiful to me.
I got to tell my students how beautiful and elegant combinatorial proofs were this week, and how much nicer they are than messy algebraic ones. I'm not sure they believed me, but I think they believed my sincerity. Maybe someday they'll believe too! |
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« Reply #2606 on: November 21, 2009, 12:05:45 PM » |
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Plus I really love looking at a page of math. Don't know why - it's just beautiful to me.
I got to tell my students how beautiful and elegant combinatorial proofs were this week, and how much nicer they are than messy algebraic ones. I'm not sure they believed me, but I think they believed my sincerity. Maybe someday they'll believe too! This might be one reason why I'm typing up my class notes in LaTeX this semester. It's a lot of work but it just looks great when it's done. I also like typing up the Greek letter xi far more than writing it on the board (how many curls in that thing, anyway?) and I like using the more obscure letters, like upsilon - that one never gets enough play. |
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"I tried to walk into a Target, but I missed. I think the entrance to Target should have people splattered all around" - Mitch Hedberg
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« Reply #2607 on: November 21, 2009, 02:07:23 PM » |
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Plus I really love looking at a page of math. Don't know why - it's just beautiful to me.
I got to tell my students how beautiful and elegant combinatorial proofs were this week, and how much nicer they are than messy algebraic ones. I'm not sure they believed me, but I think they believed my sincerity. Maybe someday they'll believe too! This might be one reason why I'm typing up my class notes in LaTeX this semester. It's a lot of work but it just looks great when it's done. I also like typing up the Greek letter xi far more than writing it on the board (how many curls in that thing, anyway?) and I like using the more obscure letters, like upsilon - that one never gets enough play. Yes, I could never make a zeta that looked different from a xi. ζ vs. ξ: they don't look that similar, but with my handwriting (which is not practiced in Greek, to put it mildly) it's hard to distinguish. Have you considered making them use Ϡ, ϖ, or Ϟ (obsolete Greek)? And yes, Marfa, I agree (as a combinatorial sort myself) about the combinatorial proofs. Sometimes, when I teach combinatorics, I get to persuade students of that. Lots of fun. |
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Unfortunately, I think conjugate gives good advice.
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« Reply #2608 on: November 21, 2009, 05:56:19 PM » |
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While we were expecting to bring home one new (furry) family member today, we ended up with two. They had been fostered together and get along well, so we decided to take both. In addition, we had been told that the first cat we were interested had another family interested in him before us, so three great cats have now found homes. The two now living with us seem to be enjoying their new home, and I think I have now taken more pictures of those two characters than I have of my daughter. Don't tell her that.
Also, I love all the math talk!
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« Reply #2609 on: November 21, 2009, 05:58:04 PM » |
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And you will be posting cute kitty pictures for us all to enjoy, no?
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