It's the first week of classes on campus, and as students get acquainted with their classes and teachers I noticed some trends. Here are the numbers:
-Students logging onto Student Central as the professor goes over the syllabus: 8
-Number of icebreaker games that failed terribly: 2
-Icebreaker games that ended up as coversations with your neighbor about your class schedule: All
-Powerpoints used to display professors emails and office hours: 4
-Students writing down office hours: 10
-Students expecting to go to office hours: 0
-Classes taking roll for first and only time: 5
-Teachers promising to know everybodys name by the second day of class: 1
-Teacher impressively remembering all 30 students on the second day of class: 1
- Students taking vigourous first day notes only to have the professor say after class that powerpointProxy-Connection: keep-alive Cache-Control: max-age=0 will be posted on blackboard: Everyone
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