I graded 15 tests, 30 homeworks and 60 labs (including 1-2 paragraph narratives) this weekend. I stumbled across a couple of interesting phrases… the average mean is…. more than half the class was above the 70th percentile And one REALLY clever joke. One of the labs deals with a character called “Bloody Mary” whose statistics [...]
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Interesting student quotes…
Posted in Humor, Teaching on February 9, 2009 | Comments Off
RBOC since I’m not working too hard these days….
Posted in Academic life, Humor on December 5, 2008 | Comments Off
Too funny for words, especially Issue 2…. I am going to be teaching statistics again next semester. Frankly, I think I could be happy just teaching undergrads for my career rather than going the heavy research route. I enjoy teaching stats; I enjoy teaching. I’m psyched! Plus since I’ve taught this class before (albeit 2 [...]
Two things that made me laugh this week
Posted in Graduate school, Humor on April 10, 2008 | Comments Off
Perhaps my favorite in recent memory… When you’re in grad school, every millimeter counts
Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn’t get it
Posted in Humor on October 4, 2007 | Comments Off
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