The Still New What Did You Last Do Thread

[BouncyTEM]

not sure I can do it but I'll see.

[Blox]

It's really fun to write some random shit.

[Ghastly]

Well, as a few of you know, I have been a supplemental instructor (basically, a tutor assigned to a particular class) for some developmental (read: before precalculus) math courses at my college, this semester. We had our final last week, and I just found out from the professor that half the class didn't pass...

[Enjay]

I just found out from the professor that half the class didn't pass...

Or, as an optimist might say, "half the class passed".

It's funny, after teaching for nearly 20 years I know that this is how many students look as pass/fails:

Pass: "Woohoo! I passed. Didn't I do well!"
Fail: "Boohoo! I failed. It's the teacher's fault."

Yup, teachers are only responsible for fails, not passes.

[Ghastly]

Yup, teachers are only responsible for fails, not passes.

Ah, yeah, we went over attribution biases in my psychology course, a few years ago. Anything good that happens is because of the person in question, anything bad that happens is from external sources.

But yeah, I thought the average pass rate for a class was usually more than 50%. Unrelated note, one of the CS professors here wants to start teaching an Assembly Language course, but the only issue is whether or not a whole class would take it ('cause if we don't get a certain amount of people for a class, that class is cancelled). So I'm trying to get a petition to email to the guy who runs the CS curriculum to get it (because the choice of taking Assembly Language at the best community college in the state and a 4-year university, I'd definitely take it at the community college).

[Enjay]

But yeah, I thought the average pass rate for a class was usually more than 50%.

I guess it would depend on how the pass mark was decided. If it is based on the average then, with a normal distribution, you'd expect half to pass and half to fail. As one of our (probably not the brightest) politicians once said: It's terrible that 50% of students are falling below the average score.

If it is set by some other method then the pass/fail ratio could well be quite different.

[Zippy]

I was waiting for two completely different, disassociated events to occur today. And, what are the odds, they happened at the same exact time, literally. The people from the apartment complex office knocked on the door to do a quick, annual apartment inspection. The instant I opened the door, the doorbell rang because the delivery man had arrived outside the apartment building with a package I was expecting that was scheduled to be delivered today.

[Zombieguy]

Well, that's pretty cool.

[printz]

and I just found out from the professor that half the class didn't pass...

Isn't that normal?

[MG_Man]

This is how bored I was today.

Before:


After:

[Dancso]

and I just found out from the professor that half the class didn't pass...

Isn't that normal?

It's in the students' best interest to pass; It's mostly their fault if they fail.
Guys in my class think of me and another mate as naturally gifted mathematicians, just because we don't completely fail all the time.
A lot of people complain about maths, but I think most of them are just bullshitting and too lazy to sit down and learn it.
Obviously I don't know how high the requirements are in your college Ghastly, but take criticism with a grain of salt.

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Today I played through Phocas Island 2 again. A lot shorter than what I remember. Probably because I knew what to do 50% of the time, heh
I also picked up RTC-3057 too, this was my first proper playthrough it. I played it a few years ago but I was horribly lost due to my unpolished english knowledge back then.

[Enjay]

pictures

If I had time, I'd make a "reply" with a picture of a sea gull called Steven.

[Dancso]

Wait till I make an image of a berry with Chuck Norris on it.

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[Xaser]

@MG_Man: Heh! When I saw the first image, I immediately thought "Deus Ex", then scrolled down...

[JimmyJ]

I just got my desktop fixed today. It needs to stop dying.