I'm in my second year of uni.
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I'm in my second year of uni.
Terxpahseyton
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I already heard Anglo-Saxon universities are more like schools than German ones. For instance homework that gets collected (happened once to me so far ever) and even graded (never happened) is a strange thing to me for a university. But that it is randomly decided what to grade? I would be freaking outraged and so would my peers I imagine.
Is that a normal thing to do over there? Can people just grade what they want? Do you not have to be informed if something is supposed to be graded? (while with something I mean what exactly rather than some y part of x)
Is that a normal thing to do over there? Can people just grade what they want? Do you not have to be informed if something is supposed to be graded? (while with something I mean what exactly rather than some y part of x)
madviking
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homework is completely arbitrary from class to class. i have weekly problem sets for fluid mechanics but i also have another class that has zero homework and is completely lecture and exam based.
Kennigit
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While most courses don't "partially grade" homework sets (eg grade y of x>y problems without being told what problems in advance), it's the same philosophy as the way exams have to be prepared in US universities.
You are responsible for much more material than can ever be asked on the exam due to time alotment. So exams never really quite reflect the course completely accurately. But in theory you have to prepare for all the extra material that could be asked on the exam (like how you have to do all the homework problems but only get graded on a select few).
But, as choxorn pointed out, the grading is more a function of how manyslaves TA's, grad students, or graders the class has available.
You are responsible for much more material than can ever be asked on the exam due to time alotment. So exams never really quite reflect the course completely accurately. But in theory you have to prepare for all the extra material that could be asked on the exam (like how you have to do all the homework problems but only get graded on a select few).
But, as choxorn pointed out, the grading is more a function of how many
cybrxkhan
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Usually professors will also tell what homework there will be and how it is graded. If they don't, at least one student will ask anyhow.
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@Kennigit
That is one thing and totally ordinary from my POV. But if I am asked a question, I want to know weather it is graded or not. That seems most fundamental to me. The ability of a prof to otherwise basically play with my expectations in this regard goes against my whole understanding of a university.
Some kind of home assignment which gets collected isn't exactly unusual over here either btw (though I'd expect it to be still less common), it is just not something I would label as homework as I at least always was told what those assignments were and when they were due at the beginning of the course. So like what cybrxkhan said.
That is one thing and totally ordinary from my POV. But if I am asked a question, I want to know weather it is graded or not. That seems most fundamental to me. The ability of a prof to otherwise basically play with my expectations in this regard goes against my whole understanding of a university.
Some kind of home assignment which gets collected isn't exactly unusual over here either btw (though I'd expect it to be still less common), it is just not something I would label as homework as I at least always was told what those assignments were and when they were due at the beginning of the course. So like what cybrxkhan said.
I'm not saying that I didn't think it was graded or didn't know how, I'm just ranting that the specific way it was graded and a TA grading one thing really harshly utterly screwed me over.
Typically they ask you to do say 10 problems then grade two at random, the idea being that it's a "random sampling" and thus should be representative of the overall quality of your work in the full set of problems.
Basically this.
cybrxkhan
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Never had that in any of my classes, though I guess it would vary by school and bydepartment anyways.
Terxpahseyton
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Yes I see.
But the idea being most of all to get me to do all 10 problems well out of fear they may be graded. Which I would loath loath loath.
I mean if that is a fairly common thing and one knows in front, it is not as bad as I initially had the impression, it still is something I would hate and find disrespectful.
So perhaps I'll go post a rave that I don't have that.
madviking
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ah the classic "DOOOOON'T CAAAAAARE" roommate. i had one first year.
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One of my roommates was exceptionally drunk last night. And he had an 8:00 AM class today. I don't know how he does it.
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The answer is usually "badly," but I think you could ask any members of the legal profession that happen to cavort around these parts for insight into the long-term functionality of working alcoholics. The federal bench is supposed to sport some truly impressive statistics on that front.
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The one who always seems to be playing and the one who thinks 3:30 in the morning is the best possible time to make noise are different guys. It's the second one I have a problem with. I think he and his friends are also the ones who sometimes stink up part of the suite with the stench of weed and cigarettes.
madviking
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sounds like a normal thursday for me
I'd be throwing a tantrum and #occupying campus if I were you. Need an y gasoline, matches, oreos, rope, paint?But it's merely tuesday!
madviking
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absinthe: for when it's tuesday and you don't have to be anywhere by thursday
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