This graph frighteningly displays the problem we have created. There are more in the full article. Total student loan debt, which is greater than one trillion dollars, has increase 4 fold in the last ten years. This is a bubble. It will burst.
Category Archives: Academic
CSC 501 Final Scores
Here is a CDF (cumulative distribution function) of the final scores in CSC 501 (both sections combined).
Enrollment
Wow! Both courses I’m teaching filled up almost immediately. This is good and bad. Good: I must be teaching the right subjects. Bad: I have to turn away many students.
If you wanted to get into a course and couldn’t that is regretful and I empathize with you. Unfortunately, each course has a limit. Registration is controlled by the registrar and policy set by the dept, college, and university. I do not have any control of this process. If you have any questions or requests, please direct them to the dept grad office, csc-gradoffice@ncsu.edu.
Your only option is to get on the wait list and hope that enough students drop the course. I do not know whether that will happen, but in the past about 10% of those that initially enroll drop the course. If you are not on the wait list, I believe you can set up an alert in MyPack to let you know if space opens up on the wait list.
Professor of the Year
From Critical Theory, we present the professor of the year. Samples:
- ‘“I hate students,” he said, “they are (as all people) mostly stupid and boring.”‘
- ‘”[I]f you don’t give me any of your shitty papers, you get an A. If you give me a paper I may read it and not like it and you can get a lower grade.” He received no papers that semester.’
- ‘Zizek would fill up his sign-up sheet for office hours with fake names to avoid student contact.’
Why do departments and universities put up with this? Priorities are so out of whack at many schools. No one can be good enough in other areas to compensate for this. Furthermore, it is almost a given that he is not as good as he could be (nor as good as he thinks he is) because one necessary condition for learning is humility. You cannot learn anything if you already know it all.
Honest commercial
My teens turned me on to nigahiga. Like all good humor this commercial is funny because it is true.