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am_Unition  ·  2519 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: I'm not welcome as a teacher, don't know why.

There's no way for you to know. It's a far cry from what the real world is like, where people generally treat other people with honesty and openness, instead of the transparent misdirection afforded a child. Again, I'm sorry to reinforce your existing worries, but I think age and your corresponding position as "student" allows them to feel no moral qualms about leaving you in the dark. It's especially true of the older professors and administrators, I've noticed, and part of being a scientist is a healthy disregard of authority.

The folks who treated you right are worth keeping around, and you'll remember which ones they are veryyyyy naturally. I'm sure you're a great teacher, but if I watched you lecture, I'd probably just end up feeling even more stupid than I do currently. Man, I wish I could be there to see what happens to them when they try to break you, in graduate school. I predict that the ordeal will end with them making an ass of themselves, and of course you'll emerge unscathed. Take pictures!

Edit: and yeah, in this instance, you don't need to go through them to lecture. Just set up sessions without directly involving the school, if people are interested. You should teach, it's the best way to learn.



Devac  ·  2519 days ago  ·  link  ·  
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am_Unition  ·  2519 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    I crunched some numbers and if I play the next semester juuust right I might reduce my maths masters programme to one year

See? Part of the program is figuring that out. You're in as much of a rush to get out of school as me, it sounds like. Try to have at least a bit of fun on the way, though, you've earned it.

I have a laundry list of relatively harmless things I'll eventually be following through on. Like spoofing official procedural paperwork placed next to the microwave in the break room, with a new sign enforcing paper documentation of microwave usage, and caution tape stuck to the floor in a perimeter around it all. The document's intro will include a very long section about optimal methods of microwaving various types of food based on water content, geometry and composition of container, mass, initial temperature, power dissipation of microwave, etc., and that'll be no joke. I've conducted... many microwave heating characterizations. But the safety portion of the document is going to see me have a field day with radiation misconceptions.

Keep your creative outlets, they will help you do science better than any formalized instruction ever can. It's great that you still have them, I've seen some art from you on here. My artistic outlets are limited and very lewd, right now.

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