Monthly Archives: December 2012

December 24, 2012
5:15 pm
by: lilengineerthatcould

Semester in Review

Well, as I’m about 6 hours in* into a 14 hour bus+train journey to Massachusetts I figured this would be a good time to reflect and respond to the past semester which seems to have flown bye. The Blogs I … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Posted in curriculum, ECE2524, future, review, Teaching

December 12, 2012
10:03 pm
by: katevance

Finnish School System

I just found this meme-type photo, so I figured I should post it up here. This is pretty interesting, I wonder how much time they spend in school each day? In looking around, I found this interesting site too. It just … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Posted in PFP12F

December 12, 2012
2:34 pm
by: lilengineerthatcould

Re: the little things of ubuntu

In a recent post thomaswy mentioned some things he liked about the CLI in Ubuntu (Linux in general, running bash in any distribution should yield an extremely consistent experience) and some things he disliked about the GUI. He’s not alone, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Posted in Cinnamon, Desktop Managers, ECE2524, Gnome, i3, Unity

December 11, 2012
4:15 am
by: katevance

home schooling

I realized that I should’ve probably talked about this when everyone else was discussing their schooling experiences. Even though this is still in the US, there is a lot about it that is different from the average American childhood schooling. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Posted in PFP12F

December 11, 2012
3:03 am
by: katevance

tenure

We’ve been discussing tenure a lot in class, so I decided maybe I should look up a little bit more about the statistics. In a 12/10/12 article, the Chronicle of Higher Education reported that the proportion of college instructors who … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Posted in PFP12F

December 11, 2012
2:56 am
by: katevance

Tuition hikes the north face…

As tuition rises at universities, one would expect admission or the opportunities to attend for students from the lower socioeconomic classes to be affected.   Elite universities in the United States have claimed for many years that is not the case … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Posted in PFP12F

December 11, 2012
2:42 am
by: katevance

Undergraduate research

The other day in class, we were talking about what we’d change about higher education. My comment was that I would want there to be more sort of undefined credit hours you could take. As I was talking, I realized, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Posted in PFP12F

December 10, 2012
4:00 pm
by: katevance

Shocking! The real purpose of your life!

I happened to see this video  last Monday before class. I’m a sucker for anything involving South Park (or just Trey Parker and Matt Stone) so of course I watched it. It just so happens that it went unbelievable well … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Posted in PFP12F

December 10, 2012
1:12 pm
by: weirdingwords

Being Faculty

During a recent campus interview, I was talking to the chair of the search committee about the position for which I was interviewing. The position was to replace a faculty member who had been in the job for almost 30 … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Posted in PFP12F

December 9, 2012
8:54 pm
by: anamitrapal

How I viewed my Teachers

Being born and brought up in India, I had a very different opinion of Teachers with respect to what I found here in the US. Since my childhood, I was made to believe that teachers were infallible people; that they … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Posted in PFP12F