Great Moments in Student Course Evaluations

Question on the evaluation form:

If there was a writing component in this laboratory, please comment on the attention given to it with respect to the improvement of your writing

Student response:

Dude, my writing totally improved.

And so, we close the book on another academic term...

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Do you think that was intended to be ironic or not?

OMG! Kids today! Shouldn't it be "Dude, my writing SO totally improved"!

Dude, my writing is like so improved.

Dude.

By Aaron Bergman (not verified) on 20 Mar 2006 #permalink

It may or may not help to know that some of Chad's students approach him with a fairly casual attitude.

As in, some of them call him "Chad" (with permission).

The biggest show of guts and sense of humour was when I was delivering a lecture in absence of my PhD advisor. I was happily calculating the Green's function of the wave equation in 2D and I said "we introduce an Ansatz". Then I explained what an Ansatz is and gave an example "I'm an Ansatz for Prof. X today". Then I hear with my eyes on the blackboard, as one student says "Ersatz, rather". I wasn't even offended...

By Roman Werpachowski (not verified) on 20 Mar 2006 #permalink