something i love: professors who don’t waste my time. let me add to this. i absolutely love professors like this. for example: today i went to my religions of asia class, which i think will be my ony really good one this semester. it’s scheduled from 10am to 10:50, three days a week. the professor shows up and starts lecturing on time, and delivers a really interesting, informative and pretty clear and well presented lecture that lasts about 35 minutes (with a few student questions, answered straighforwardly and concisely, thrown in), and says “okay, that’s all”. and we leave. it was perfect. i learned a lot i didn’t already know, and didn’t have to sit through a guy talking just to hear his own voice echo over the faces of 300 bored students. i love this guy (professor slingerland, if you’re interested).

example of what NOT to do: my first session of finance (pronounced fuh-NANCE if you’re this professor) consisted of the first hour or more of a two hour class being filled with him reading us the syllabus, which he did not hand out to us, but told us to go to his website and print out on our own (only one person out of about 200 had done this before class). in this case, not only did he waste my time, but told me that i have to use my own paper and ink for the syllabus for his dumb class. after that, he went over the table of contents from our textbook for another twenty minutes, telling us the topic sentences of what we’d learn later. then he gave a flimsy 25 minute lecture. it was awful, and that was just the first day.

i hope teachers, current or prospective, somehow read this and take note. this is important stuff here.

in other news, there isn’t much. impossibles this weekend at chain reaction (saturday) and then again here on campus on monday. god they put on a fantastic live show. can’t wait.