last class, and we got through 126 slides in the last two lectures...
twice a week, for the last three months, except for the "few" odd times I was on travel, I have walked into our freshman seminar with a small cup of black coffee, and, if the grad students hadn't eaten them all, a cookie - lemon cream or oreo, usually.
So, for the last class the students decided I needed to modernise, and get one of them new fangled healthy blended drinks:
I think this is called a "strawberry island oasis yogurt cream smoothie";
not half-bad actually, in fact could get used to it...
Not much caffeine though.
The very large chocolate chip coffeecookie [sic - talk about freudian typing errors] should overcompensate though, both for the caffeine and any excess healthiness.
Just perfect for grading the large stack of final papers...
Thanks!
I definitely learned something.
PS: sorry I didn't get donuts, as usual (school was canceled because of "weather"), so no chance to pick anything up coming back from the morning pre-school dropoff.
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Is this large number of slides supposed to be a Good Thing? That is, are you happy that you went through so many slides in the final two classes? Or is it just such an unusually large number, due to circumstances beyond your control, that it seems especially noteworthy?
Not a good thing! At all.
What happened is that I wanted to do a brief summary of modern cosmology, and so I started assembling a talk.
At about 1 am I paused to save and review, and found I had 107 slides for the next day... kinda added a few too many nifty NASA images and simulations (somehow failed to load the mpegs for the sims though so that got skipped over).
Got through 78 slides, in a fun filled class, then decided to add a few (another 19 it turned out) for the final class - I had a one class slack.
I'll allow 3 classes to cover modern cosmology next time.