The underlying mathematics of spring semester
Posted on March 4, 2005 @ 4:59 pm
I’m a social scientist, so it’s an important part of my job to quantify complex social phenomena. To that end, I’ve developed this formula to explain class attendance:
When does Spring Break get here?
Posted by Jess | Filed Under Tales from the Classroom |
8 comments so far...
Leave a Comment
If you would like to make a comment, please fill out the form below.
Ah yes; warm weather strikes again.
A whole half a class sounds pretty damn good to me.
I shall not covet your 65 degree temperatures.
I think spring break is the first week of April around here. We’ve had gorgeous weather the past few days. Low 70s. It makes me want to play hookie from work.
Half the class still shows up?
Thursday was our last class before SB and we’re also in the midst of a severe flu outbreak, so my attendance was at about 35%. Of course, if I’d had somewhere better to be I’d have probably skipped my class, too….
Brilliant. I’m anticipating later this week that:
Thursday + 3:30 p.m. + last class before spring break + np paper due = usual attendance/3
Cheeky Prof: What is an “np paper”?
Jess: That is just about the formula for our classes here. Of course, this past week, it didn’t help that it also happened to be the last week before our spring break. Rule of thumb with the students is that one should not skip class after Spring Break if one wants to make a C or better in classes.