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Professors Can Be Your Friends, Too
This is the season of tests and projects aka midterms. Either you have been studying for midterms or not studying for midterms or at least been hearing about people studying for midterms. The academic hammer has been flattening us all in some shape or form, and I know that I for one am exhausted. My blood pressure has been fluctuating dramatically based on my level of … [Read more...] about Professors Can Be Your Friends, Too
Nam Knows Best: Group Project Etiquette
“Now get into groups…” Those dreaded words seem to fall so innocently from the lips of Professor So-and-So who does not realize (or perhaps does realize and is one of those teachers who takes joy in torturing students) that those words will potentially wreck a student’s life forever and ever and ever. Frankly put: group projects are the worst. And when I say the worst, I … [Read more...] about Nam Knows Best: Group Project Etiquette
Dear Students, Banning Tech Makes a Whole Lot of Sense
Photo by Justina Huang Most lecture hall professors can be divided into two groups. There are those who allow laptops, cellphones and tablets into the classroom and those who do not. To the chagrin of most of my classmates, I will defend the latter. This is not in direct opposition to the idea of learning through technology, but rather a recognition of the way the … [Read more...] about Dear Students, Banning Tech Makes a Whole Lot of Sense
Dear Profs, Stop Banning Laptops in the Classroom
Photo by Justina Huang It is the arguments you have heard over and over again. Taking notes via the pen comes with fewer distractions than with the laptop. I buy this argument. What I do not buy as much is the argument that since research “proves that typing is a more shallow cognitive process,” that laptops should be banned in the classroom. Most correlational studies … [Read more...] about Dear Profs, Stop Banning Laptops in the Classroom
