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A summary of every talk on AI I've attended (usually against my will) in the last year: "of course we must also consider the ethical and moral issues with using gen AI" *proceeds to never bring up these issues or consider them at all*

#aim rants #ai discourse #literally 3 talks at this conference did this #and someone in the audience called them out #and they just danced around the question #saying that you are considering the ethics when using generative ai and actually doing so are completely different things #this is my new pet peeve #this is how i become the joker #“our students are using ai so we need to figure out how to use ai in the classroom”#“how will they learn how to use it properly if we don't incorporate it into our lessons”#idk man maybe they learning it in their tech classes and we keep it the fuck put of chemistry #like I don't even have time to cover everything in gen chem in a semester and now you want me to teach gen ai too #fuck that #chem ed #teaching #education #*screeches*

The pandemic has truly fucked up student's expectations when it comes to grades. Just had a student show up to lab and then ask to leave after 20 mins to go pick his grandma up from the airport. He seemed genuinely shocked when I said he could make his own choices but he wouldn't receive credit for the lab that he wasn't performing. Sorry, but just making an appearance is not enough to get a grade.

#college students #pandemic repercussions #aim rants #like holy shit guys

One of the fun things about dating a submariner is that there are huge chunks of pop culture that are just...missing from his life experience.

Like he missed the gangnam style craze because he was sailing around underwater in a metal tube for months.

Today we brought up when plank challenges were a thing and he had no idea what we were talking about.

It's fascinating that there's this huge cultural phenomenon that everyone else in our age group experienced that he missed out on and sometimes it's something really random like a pop song that was popular for one summer and sometimes it's something that was a huge trend that everyone was doing and it kind of exposes how quickly trends come and go and what things were fast fads and what things have withstood the rest of time

#personal #aim rants #idk man #culture and people are weird #I want a sociologist to study this man

It's the 3rd week of lab and I can't tell if my students are extra incompetent this semester or if they just really don't want to be here. So far I have been asked:

Where do I get the water from? (As if we have no idea what a sink is)

Where are the pipets? (While standing directly in front of the pile of pipets)

Which mass do I use {to find the volume of water}? (The options they were pointing to were the mass of an empty beaker or the mass of the water)

Where do I find the density? (Ignoring the folder directly next to them labelled DENSITY CHARTS)

What pages do I hand in? (As if it is not written on the board behind me in giant black marker)

#college students #teaching #aim rants #like at this point there are certain inane questions i expect to be asked #these are a new low #reading comprehension is non existent with this group #it does not help that my patience is rope thin right now

Student just straight up told me that the reason she keeps missing class is because it's early and she has trouble getting up.

Girl, do you think I like being here at 8am? Cause I don't. But I do it because it's what I gotta do.

#aim rants #there was another section of this class #and it was not full #and it was at noon #you could have switched if mornings are bad #instead of missing ao many classes that you have no idea whats going on any more

The attitude of high schools to just pass students for the sake of passing them is so frustrating to me. I have prereqs in my class for a reason. And half my students should be in the lower level class but because they meet the prereqs on paper, they get put with me and then end up dropping half way through the semester or failing because they aren't actually prepared. And then I feel like a shit teacher and look like a shit teacher on paper when only half my class passes. We need to start taking requirements more seriously at the high school level. Otherwise we're going to raise a generation of students who will just expect everything to work out for them with no effort on their part who are going to be in for a ride awakening when they leave high school.

#college #education #aim rants #I'm just sick of having students in gen chem that can't even read yhe periodic table #high school chemistry is a requirement #i shouldn't have students who can't tell me what sodium is

I thought I lost my flashdrive and was nearly in a full blown panic before i remember i might have left it in the gen chem lab so I just spent an hour in my car driving back and forth and it was there thank fuck but now i’m still all wound up and I’ve lost a whole night of work between the panic and the driving

#aim rants #adventures in grad school #holy fuck #i would have completely lost my shit if i had lost it for real #i need ice cream

I think the suckiest thing about sharing an intrument at work is that when the other person is a lazy fuck and doesn't put all their shit away, i can't really passive-aggressively leave it out because i need to use the instrument so i have no choice but to clean it up and i can't really put it anywhere it would specifically be in their way because we share the spaces around it. I'm so sick and tired of coming in and seeing the chemset from the day before still on the lachat. It takes 2, maybe 3 minutes to dissamble it. What is so hard about that? Why do i have to be the one to put everything away? I'm so done with this job.

#work #coworkers #aim rants #just a bit #i needed to get it out before anyone else comes in #2 more weeks and I'm done

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