“You still owe me for the judo lessons, Ben. Pay up.”
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Why would black jesus hang out with Ben Carson?
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¯_(ツ)_/¯
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To me he looks more like white celebrity jesus with a fantabulastic tan.
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16 Teddy Bear Bread Rolls. The cute is strong with this one.
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Oh my goodness. My nieces would have a field day with those. From shock they’re made out of bread, to cooing they’re too cute to eat, to the Bear Bread Massacre/Zombie Apocalypse, starring the nieces as bread-eating Godzillas.
I should figure out how to make them.
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This person’s whole channel is soooo cute. Also fun to watch in another language.
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I might wind up subscribing. The squid ink finger puppet bread looked amazing too.
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The teddy bears didn’t seem too overly complicated, either. Would be a fun project with kids.
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i’m dying. i love this!
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It’s funny in hindsight, but wow I find it easy to imagine being in her class.
For one of my first-year Comp Sci half-courses, I had a prof the grad students revered – I even heard one refer to him as a “god”. He was teaching this first-year course because the university had decided the undergrads shouldn’t be taught only by profs who didn’t have the pull to weasel out of it.
So he’d teach us, always with a topic but never prepared, and it came out (IIRC he just told us like it was no big deal) that the version of the language he was teaching us and the version we had available to us for the lab assignments were different. So he’d tell us it worked foo way, and really the syntax was bar.
At first the lab TAs thought we were all trying to mooch solutions from them, until they put it together that everyone in this guy’s section always made the same syntax errors.
Oh yeah, and anyone he caught helping people out in lectures by correcting the incorrect stuff he was telling us (ie: me and some other people had gone to the TAs to get pro-active help) received “assistance” from him during the final exam (colour me gobsmacked he actually proctored it). Said assistance was a) incorrect and b) just to fuck with us during the exam.
I managed to crawl out of that shitshow with a B; all my other Comp Sci classes were solid As.
I’m always amazed what crap universities will let tenure profs get away with. Maybe you can’t fire them easily, but there’s a difference between academic freedom and messing up someone’s electives and grade average just for your own twisted fun.
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Ask me about my one B in my major. Hint: The professor was drunk every single class. It was an 11 a.m. class. (In his defense, his son had committed suicide. After that semester the other profs sent him for treatment. I hear he was a great teacher when he was sober. Glad they helped him but no one seemed to care about the students who he affected.)
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Well, fortunately, we won’t have to worry about that much longer, since most students in the future are going to be taught by contingent faculty who can be fired at a whim. /s
They don’t, unless it threatens the bottom line somehow. Sad state of affairs.
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Ouch, good point. And to be fair to tenured profs, like I said, this guy wasn’t just tenured, but revered. His whole family are local art and science rockstars. So criticising him was criticising A [Surame]. I was even told by my ex (who was a big fan of the prof) that I should make allowances because it was so hard for someone of that genius to come down to first-year level. (What was that about genius assholes again?)
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Don’t get me wrong… I’m not saying at all that tenured profs can’t or aren’t sometimes bad at their jobs (or part of their jobs, in this case the teaching part). They totally can be. But I think it’s important to remember that their primary job isn’t teaching, it’s producing knowledge (at least as major universities). Especially for people coming out of elite institutions who end up tenure track faculty at major universities, teaching isn’t their primary function, so they get little to know training on how to teach their subject matter. It’s almost always a trial by fire as a TA, and then maybe teaching one class, usually an upper division course in their specialty. GSU was unusual in that we have a pretty heavy teaching load with our TA duties.
Seems to me that part of the problem with the tenure system, I think, is that almost all phd programs act as if their graduates are going to be at a university where they have a small course load and much more time for research, instead of ending up spending more time teaching at a smaller school or a public university. Most phd programs act as if their students are coming out of harvard or yale and we’re not. Most of us end up teaching and are frankly woefully unprepared for that reality. It helps explain the bitterness of lots of academics.
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They shit marble statues?
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Not to mention that they didn’t exactly spring from the ground with a thesis in their hand themselves. Even the most independent learner needs some sort of teaching support.
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Sure. And for my part, I think that teaching is incredibly important part of my job (well it is my entire job at this point, actually) and I don’t think that would change if I did find a tenure track position. I also find scholars who look down on undergraduate teaching as beneath them to be real assholes.
I think it’s a two fold problem that we’re discussing here - that people mistake the role of tenure track academics at research universities to be primarily that of teaching, when it’s not and that almost all phd programs pump out people whose expectation that they will be tenure track at a research university, when the vast majority of us are not doing that. I’ll also say, that there is a good deal of anger and bitterness in academia right now, across the board, espeically in the humanities.
And I do know quite a few people in my field who do embrace their role as educators as much as they do their role as producers of knowledge.
I think this is largely because they are not being made to understand the realities of the job market right now. Things have changed even since the early 2000s and most tenure track faculty aren’t really faced with the realities, so they aren’t really preparing phds for those realities.
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