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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During my office hours today, a student asked me whether, when I was a chemistry student, the people teaching me chemistry also took steps to teach me how to write.
Janet asks "Where do scientists learn to write?" Well, actually, being a good academic, she asks many more questions than that:
I'm following up on yesterday's post on where scientists learn how to write (and please, keep those comments coming).
As a refresher for me, and to give some examples to help you guys understand it, I'm going to go through a couple of examples of interesting things you can build with π-calculus. We'll start with a simple way of building mutable storage.
Do you think that was intended to be ironic or not?
OMG! Kids today! Shouldn't it be "Dude, my writing SO totally improved"!
Hey, all the words are spelled correctly! It's a start!
Dude, my writing is like so improved.
Dude.
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).
What Kate said. It's entirely possible that I have started sentences with "Dude,..." in lab.
Kudos to the dude for having a sense of humor and guts to use it.
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...