Homework In Graduate School
This is a repost from an earlier entry on my Money, Matter,and More Musings blog; just doing it because this place is more fitting for it.
It's that time of year again. There is a ton of homework, just 24 hours in a day and the coffee never seems strong enough.
Homework is slowly taking me to the dark side. I feel it calling. I have resisted it for too long now. To counter my resistance, it has unleashed it's proven weapon: Deadline! and now it is also threatening unfriendly consequences to my grades. So I am going to take heed and work on it for now. That means less attention to important activities like to blogging, checking my sitemeter statistics....and yeah Yodlee.
Some homeworks are a real waste of resources; especially badly composed ones. It masks the real learning and simply burdens the system (students, instructors and graders all included) with a whole lot of meaningless jargon. There have been instances when a homework has taken less than an hour and taught things I will treasure for life, and there have been others when I have worked on a homework for a whole week and did not learn anything.
So all you teachers, professors and instructors out there, spend some time on giving good constructive homeworks. Don't waste everybody's time and energy with bad ones.
It's that time of year again. There is a ton of homework, just 24 hours in a day and the coffee never seems strong enough.
Homework is slowly taking me to the dark side. I feel it calling. I have resisted it for too long now. To counter my resistance, it has unleashed it's proven weapon: Deadline! and now it is also threatening unfriendly consequences to my grades. So I am going to take heed and work on it for now. That means less attention to important activities like to blogging, checking my sitemeter statistics....and yeah Yodlee.
Some homeworks are a real waste of resources; especially badly composed ones. It masks the real learning and simply burdens the system (students, instructors and graders all included) with a whole lot of meaningless jargon. There have been instances when a homework has taken less than an hour and taught things I will treasure for life, and there have been others when I have worked on a homework for a whole week and did not learn anything.
So all you teachers, professors and instructors out there, spend some time on giving good constructive homeworks. Don't waste everybody's time and energy with bad ones.
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