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Me: What browser are you using?
Client: The one from Google.
Me: Oh, Chrome?
Client: No, no. The Google one. The one with an “E” logo.
Me: …Internet Explorer?
Client: Yes! The one from Google!
This is actually something that happens very frequently in my classes. With undergrads. Who claim and pride themselves to be whizzes with computers.
"I need to see you immediately! I need to discuss my grades with you - they are damn bad!"
...your grades are not up for discussion. I grade, you receive.
Maybe something mind-expanding would have helped those adults know how pencils work?
21 Epic Failures That Should Have Surprised No One
Studies have shown that training one's mind results in one's mind being more trained
Yeah we kind of expected that too.
PSA: Keep to your time limit
If you're making a 30 minute presentation, one surefire way to NOT impress your audience is to talk about the background of your research for a good 50 minutes before even starting on the research question proper. KEEP TO YOUR TIME LIMIT, DAMMIT.
Yes, that's what teachers do
This was an actual conversation between me and a bunch of students - our office area is locked and needs card access, and so they were waiting outside for someone. I thought I'd be nice and offer to call my colleague, whoever it was, out to meet them. My thoughts are in italics after the student's responses:
"Hi, who're you waiting for?"
"Errr...one of the lecturers" (Yea of course, this is a lecturer's office)
"Ok...so which one are you looking for..?"
"The one that lecturers our course?" (Of course we don't just run one course at a time so this isn't a helpful clue)
"Could you be a bit more specific?"
Here another student, with the "epiphany!" look on his face, chips in and tries to be helpful with:
"Oh, he teaches us!"
Emails and Ability
"Our students’ inability to reply to emails is likely to be either a lack of capacity, or a lack of ability to reply to emails."
A response to a remark that students weren’t responding to instructions given via email, and when a reply was requested as acknowledgment.
One of the key points to effective online communication is to communicate.
Found in an academic newsletter. TO COMMUNICATE EFFECTIVELY YOU MUST COMMUNICATE. NO SHIT SHERLOCK.
We want to have change - but we don't want to change. Can you make it change without change?
In a meeting about revamping the way classes are conducted and new potential infrastructure
NO SHIT MAN, I'M AN ENGINEER TEACHING SCIENCE
Comment on developed course materials: "not enough economic and sociological analysis."
Article Shmarticle.
Magazine Editors: We'd like you to write a short article for our research magazine, highlighting the latest of your research. It should be no longer than 1500 words, excluding a short abstract and biography. We'd also like to ask you to pen a personal post-note telling us what you gleaned from the experience and how you have learned through the process
(agrees, writes article according to specifications)
Magazine Editors: Actually the article can be up to 3000 words, so it's now a bit short, could you expand it?
(writes a more elaborate version and submits)
Magazine Editors: I'm afraid the technical details are still a bit vague. We'll waive the word limit as we do want this to be a good article!
(writes a similar version to a published paper, and it finally gets accepted by the editors)
A month later...
Magazine in print: XXX shares with us his feelings on his latest project - "I feel extremely honoured to be part of this, and hope to continue to contribute".
6000 words, not counting rewrites, and all you took was one line from a personal reflection. *facepalm*
Colour/Consistency
Reviewer: The digital copy looks different from the printed copy. All your colours are missing.
Me: Is your printer a colour printer or a black/white printer?
Reviewer: Black and white. But it shouldn't have an effect on your graphs that are in colour. Please get a consistent set data.
"This is urgent...we have all the time, don't rush"
(E-mail conversation between a Prof leaving for a holiday, prior to leaving for good, and a PhD candidate who is trying to finish up)
Prof: Could you do all these amendments and send it back to me so that I can look at it? This is urgent, do it NOW.
Me (after the mad rush of reading, proofing and experiments with the same day): Dear Sir, attached is the amended copy with all the additions and some more suggestions. All your concerns have been addressed, please let me know when I'll hear from you regarding this.
Prof: I'm off on a holiday tomorrow, I'll read it when I get back. Don't worry we have all the time - don't rush!
(TAP: Huh. This seems to happen fairly often.)
That's what it's there for.
(A slide was being shown of a small 1cm specimen, blurred beyond recognition and a very clear scale beside it)
Presenter: We took an image of the scale using a digital microscope, an image of the specimen using a camera, and then pasted the scale onto the image of the specimen after scaling it to the appropriate size.
Audience: The specimen image looks rather pixelated and blurry due to the scaling of the image after being taken - could you take the image using the microscope instead for a clearer one?
Presenter: You can use a microscope for that?
I really hope I wasn't like that before
(while teaching an undergrad student how to work a machine)
Me: Ok so this switch controls the laser; turn it on and that laser you see there goes on.
Undergrad: So what happens if I switch it off?
True Story
(An email conversation about a manuscript being prepared for submission to an academic journal)
Prof: Here's the draft manuscript you sent me. I've made some changes, please see if you agree with them and send me the amended copy
(Student scrolls though and finds only one change made - a rephrasing of words)
Student: Attached is the amended copy. (with email attachment)
(the next day)
Prof: I've had a look at your amended manuscript, and made another change to it. Please let me know if you agree, and if so, make the amendments and send me the amended copy.
(Student scrolls through and finds two rephrasing of sentences)
Student: I've made the additional amendments, and attached the amended manuscript here. I hope this is satisfactory.
This repeats itself until there are 26 versions of the "final manuscript", each with only one or two rephrasing changes in the text.
So that's what the green squiggly lines in Word mean.
Comment from a reviewer from a journal to which a manuscript was submitted
The grammar needs to be polished. Very obvious mistakes.
