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Harvard Faculty Club News: Closing Temporarily?

(via fumeblanc)

Two weeks ago I had a staff meeting (for CS1 with Leitner) scheduled there that got canceled because of the norovirus. Rather glad, come to think, it wasn’t three weeks ago.
(Reblogged from fumeblanc)

As noises start up in the adjacent room, I leave the exam I'm proctoring and walk over:

  • Me (quietly): Hi, I'm sorry, there's an exam going on next door...
  • Lecturer: Exam? I don't know anything about an exam. This class is just ending.
  • Me (quietly): Right, I mean, I'm proctoring an exam right now...
  • Lecturer: Sure, this class is just ending right now, you can have the room in a moment.
  • Me (quietly): No, I mean, there's an exam going on right now, and I was wondering...
  • Lecturer: Oh. I don't know where it is, sorry.
  • Me (quietly): I mean, the exam's next door right now, and we can hear everyone talking in this room.
  • Lecturer: Yes, I've just finished class, so I'm done talking.
  • Me (quietly): Right, but we can hear all the noise from the students talking. Would it be okay if I asked them to be quiet?
  • Lecturer: So you're saying they're being too loud?
  • Me (quietly): Yes.
  • Lecturer: And you want them to be quiet?
  • Me (quietly): Yes.
  • Lecturer (to class, at top of his lungs): QUIET, PLEASE!!!

…lost his Internet connection while teaching the section about the Internet. Glorious.

I will miss my CSCI S-1 students (last section tonight!), but at least I’ll always have their problem sets to grade. Always. Oh, God, always.

Oh, CSCI S-1, you light up my life. Did I say “light”? I meant “eat”.

♫ Who’s got a day job looking at spreadsheets,
Coding up macros in VBA?
Who really should be selfish with free time?
Everyone knows it’s Cindy!

Who’s volunteered to cover for deadbeats,
Working a TF’s job for no pay?
Who’s going to save what’s left of my sanity?
Everyone knows it’s Cindy! ♫

(To the tune, of course, of “Windy”, by the Association, embedded above. The original doesn’t rhyme in the verses, so of course the parody only kinda does. Basically, long story short, Cindy has volunteered to step up and do some of the work that isn’t getting done by my fellow teaching fellows, even though she’s working 100-hour weeks in Hong Kong this summer.)

apparently the great ideas in computer science don’t include removing last year’s course info from this year’s website

(“Great Ideas in Computer Science” being the course title of CS1)

New e-mail address: brian.is.an.awesome.tf+who.is.smarter.than.you.at.cs1@gmail.com

(brian.is.an.awesome.tf+who.is.smarter.than.you.at.cs1@gmail.com will actually forward to me, yes.)

Staffing a course with high schoolers in it starting Monday, giving me two days to get all the bawdy, obscene, unrepeatable Gchat statuses out of my system

(funnier if you know how straitlaced and straight-arrow I am)

please bother me, I’m grading (along with four people on my Gchat friends list)

(Reprise of my earliest status message, only now in the middle of a CS1 grading session. Cindy actually saw my status message and replied.)

My goal: more CUE evaluations than students in my section. CS1, make it happen!