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Fol­low­ing up with My Lat­est Spe­cial Snowflake: Dear Stu­dent, Rest assured, the grade you saw this week on your semes­ter grade report was the grade you EARNED in my class. Let me repeat that. I did not GIVE you that grade, you EARNED it. As far as dis­cussing that grade with you, I do not dis­cuss grades […]
Received via email tonight (per­sonal data changed to pro­tect the student’s iden­tity): hello pro­fes­sor this is ********** in your ********** class, accord­ing to a friend in the class that you gave back the exam 2 grades in class which i asked you for it before i left the class on mon­day, you told me you didnt have […]

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In case you didn’t notice it, there was no blog post last night. It was a crazy but fun day, but at the end both Dee and I were wiped out. I got up yes­ter­day and got on over to Roanoke Col­lege to make sure my pro­gram­ming team was ready to com­pete and to answer any […]

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…mostly you get it from your chil­dren, but if you are a col­lege pro­fes­sor who is also a pro­gram­ming team advi­sor, you can also get it from your stu­dents, espe­cially when they call you on their trav­els to share with you their more, ah, inter­est­ing adven­tures and obser­va­tions. Appar­ently one of those obser­va­tions included a Honda […]
A lot of my co-​workers don’t under­stand why I loathe Win­dows (or any­thing Microsoft) so much. Nor would they “get” why the news today that the fac­ulty are get­ting new lap­top com­put­ers run­ning Win­dows 7 to replace our desk­top com­put­ers made me bang my head on the desk. Sev­eral times. My cur­rent desk­top com­puter is set […]

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