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   Dorothea Salo (dsalo@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Nov-2024 01:33:57 JST Dorothea Salo

   I mean, I honestly don't mind grad-school-rec-writing season, but wtf kind of question is "how many students have you taught or advised [in your career]?"

   I've been doing this for seventeen years. Hell if I know. One (1) crapton? Possibly metric crapton?

   (I haven't taught large-lecture courses, but I have taught a few mid-sizers -- 75-150 -- in my time. So the answer, given that I have a fair few "repeat offenders," is probably somewhere in the low-to-mid thousands.)

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Nov-2024 01:33:56 JST Paul Cantrell

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     …to be followed up, of course, by some form of “Where would you rank this student among all the students you’ve taught?” Because of of course the first question makes data the second one More Valid. 🧐🧐

     These grad school forms are just utterly out of hand.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Nov-2024 01:48:56 JST Paul Cantrell

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     If only…

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     Dorothea Salo (dsalo@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Nov-2024 01:48:57 JST Dorothea Salo

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     • Paul Cantrell

     @inthehands Some of this year's batch are less ridiculous than formerly. I hope that trend spreads!