[TriLUG] Not Linux: Anyone else feeling the pain?

Dave Sorenson dave at logicalgeek.com
Tue Nov 25 14:52:48 EST 2008


Ah but you were  a Grad student... the actual professor did not do 1/4 
the work.. that's why they have grad students.

;-)

Dave

Tanner Lovelace wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 1:30 PM, Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> Just to clarify, when I sung the praises of getting your masters so you can
>> teach college, I did mean TEACH. Not admin or code.
>>     
>
> Spoken like someone who has never taught at the college level. :-)
>
> The semester I taught a class in graduate school I worked more than
> I'd ever worked.  Up late at night working on my slides and lesson plan
> for the next day's class, grading papers (even with a TA) and programming
> assignments, planning programming assignments, other homework &
> quizes, and then office hours answering students' questions.
>
> The 3 hours/week I was actually in the classroom teaching were simply
> the tip of the iceberg and I was only teaching one class.  A full time
> teacher that is just teaching will more likely teach 2-4 classes and
> they will definitely spend more than 40 hours/week doing it.
>
> Cheers,
> Tanner
>
>   



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