More griping

If said people will be retiring, there should be something in place that will keep the team going and knowledge in place. This is not happening at all. Today, for instance, Bruce was there and showing everyone the drawings for the robot. Everyone was around the table looking at the laptop. How many students were [...]

FIRST frustrations

This is going to be a gripe session.
I’ve been thinking a whole lot about RAGE since kickoff (January 5th). There have been a number of aspects of the team that I don’t like and really want to change. I also realize that the changes I want to make will not happen overnight. That is one [...]

Education as Sport By Walter R. Tschinkel

Thirty-six years of university biology teaching in a large state university has led me to an unsettling conclusion— professors and students are laboring under very different educational metaphors, and neither is particularly conscious of this fact. Ask either about the activity they are engaged in, and each would probably tell you, “Why, education [...]

Oops!

I know what you’re thinking. ‘What’s this jerk gonna complain about now?’
Sorry to report…nothing. Instead I would just like to say that I don’t really plan on updating this. I may, on occasion, write something that I think is important. Or, after I get a real job (or start student teaching) I may use it [...]