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# snood is evil
it will overtake your mind, and you will be powerless to resist its fell call.

delete it from your system now
(tookishlad, Sun 27 Jun 2004, 5:04, archived)
# it's too late,
i already shelled out my 15 bucks to register and get a nifty keychain.
i regret nothing.
(I helped save b3ta! TheFelineAnarchist, Sun 27 Jun 2004, 5:07, archived)
# you will now begin to see them
in your sleep

and you will draw doodles of them in the margins of restaurant menus and grandma's bible, etc.

(tookishlad, Sun 27 Jun 2004, 5:16, archived)
# it's actually not bad now.
when it's really bad is during the schoolyear...
(I helped save b3ta! TheFelineAnarchist, Sun 27 Jun 2004, 5:19, archived)
# yes
their call is strongest when you have the most to lose -- they rejoice in disrupting studies, breaking concentration, and otherwise wreaking mental and emotional chaos in the normally-studious and responsible citizen. I have banned that game from my classroom some semesters, it takes over minds so fast.
(tookishlad, Sun 27 Jun 2004, 5:25, archived)
# eerily true.
computers are allowed in lecture halls at u of m, so you'd often see the kids in front of you with their laptops open in the middle of lecture, diligently playing snood.

we also had wireless internet in there, so some people would be downloading movie trailers or writing in their livejournals or whatnot during class. or, in my case, b3taing (and desperately hoping nothing NSFW came up).
(I helped save b3ta! TheFelineAnarchist, Sun 27 Jun 2004, 5:29, archived)
# I could not possibly teach under those conditions

there would be no way!

I have to have interaction and participation and see a lot of active listening going on, or else the students get assigned some immediate work. I had the same kind of profs in several college classes back when I was at UF. They'd see us get distracted or tuning out, and "POW!", either a pop quiz or an extra essay, etc. -- teaching assistants just loved it, I'm sure.
(tookishlad, Sun 27 Jun 2004, 5:37, archived)
# it was stupid of them to hold lectures
in a room with wireless internet.

but they can't really do anything about it, the lectures are far too big to pay attention to individual students, unless they do something stupid like neglect to turn their cellphones off.
(I helped save b3ta! TheFelineAnarchist, Sun 27 Jun 2004, 5:39, archived)
# that's true
in lower division classes at UM, I'm sure it's as bad as it was at UF, with 500 to 1200 students in lectures. They'd have to pay me so much stinking money to teach in a room like that. I'd go nuts.
(tookishlad, Sun 27 Jun 2004, 5:43, archived)
# ayk!
maybe 500, but definitely not 1200! usually they're around 200.
1200 would be more like michigan state. apparently they have lectures where half the class isn't even in the same room as the lecturer, they have to watch him or her on a tv screen.
(I helped save b3ta! TheFelineAnarchist, Sun 27 Jun 2004, 5:48, archived)
# UF is like that
in a few classes.

Once a student hits second semester, second year, though, the class sizes usually drop dramatically. For me, I only had two classes of about 500. All the rest were "normal" (under 50). By the time I was a junior, I never had a class bigger than 30.
(tookishlad, Sun 27 Jun 2004, 5:59, archived)
# ah, see,
i never had a discussion session larger than 30. all my lectures were 200 or over.

but every art studio class was 20 or under, so as a freshman i lucked out.
(I helped save b3ta! TheFelineAnarchist, Sun 27 Jun 2004, 6:06, archived)