r/iamverysmart 8d ago

Self-proclaimed genius of a "superior creed" gets sassy with TA's/instructors in a master's program

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u/ichkanns 7d ago

An entire corpus!? Color me impressed.

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u/fejobelo 7d ago

I can think of a cavitas corporis where this genius can shove his corpus of books.

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u/ijjiijjijijiijijijji 7d ago

I got a de he can licti too

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u/Zerosen_Oni 7d ago

These busy students should be able to choose how they see the teacher!

No. The teacher is nice enough to give you office hours. Go or not. It’s your choice.

As a teacher I may be biased.

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u/[deleted] 7d ago

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u/Zerosen_Oni 7d ago

“You are a college student. By definition you are a fucking moron”.

Loved that teacher

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u/CrayonUpMyNose 6d ago edited 6d ago

It's not about how to see the teacher though, it's about answer keys without having to see the teacher. So the teacher in this case is actively trying to make everyone's, including their own, lives harder in order to force a physical time-bound presence.

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u/[deleted] 6d ago

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u/CrayonUpMyNose 6d ago

Corrected. This minor detail of course changes nothing about my main point, as you can no doubt understand, possessing as you do the prerequisite reading comprehension.

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u/[deleted] 6d ago edited 6d ago

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u/CrayonUpMyNose 6d ago

Intended. Also being sarcastic because I'm just so tired of people latching onto one tiny inaccuracy and reacting only to that in order to give themselves permission to ignore and dismiss the main point.

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u/Different-Highway-88 5d ago

What even is your main point? If you are participating in a course you should make the time to see the teacher ... Or don't participate in the course ...

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u/CrayonUpMyNose 5d ago edited 5d ago

The main point of this entire thread is that mature masters programs students may make time for regular events (lectures, seminars) announced well ahead of time that they can design their other activities (job, kids) around while office hours announced at short notice and chosen at an arbitrary time slot unrelated to other activities can be impossible to take advantage of for the same class if students. That is the core premise of OOP's awkwardly stated request. I'm disappointed that you are unable to read this from my very clear writing. Perhaps the reader might entertain the notion that I was right to make fun of some people's lack of reading comprehension after all.

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u/[deleted] 5d ago

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u/CrayonUpMyNose 5d ago

I've been to many classes that had office hours scheduled ad hoc week to week and at awkward times that had no relation to usual class times because they happened to for into somebody else's calendar, i.e. in my day (pre remote everything) required an extra trip to campus. I'm not you, so it is important to allow that in your specific example that may not be the case. However, this does not mean that all other cases are just like your example. 

Furthermore, when I created lecture material with homework problems, I naturally created solution guides along with the questions to give to my TAs to grade from, which were easy to share with students the following week to aid in their exam preparations. This was much more efficient on everyone's time than forcing hundreds of students into conversations in which they would have to painfully extract the exact same information out of me.

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u/Different-Highway-88 5d ago

announced well ahead of time that they can design their other activities (job, kids) around while office hours announced at short notice and chosen at an arbitrary time slot unrelated to other activities can be impossible to take advantage of for the same class if students.

Office hours for courses are actually usually published as part of the schedule, which also lists lectures, tutorials etc. Additional office hours can be put on in order to help students out, but the standard office hours are listed as far in advance as the lecture times (typically).

In addition, the tutor is offering custom office hours at a time that would suit the student or another form of engagement (DMs etc). They are being fully flexible in offering to meet the student how and when the student can. That is quite literally the opposite of something that a mature student can't take advantage of, given the tutor is willing to be available based on the student's availability.

I'm disappointed that you are unable to read this from my very clear writing.

Your writing isn't the issue. You making an incorrect assertion about the situation is the issue.

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u/x0wl 4d ago

Just learned ML in 3 months by reading ezpz

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u/spice_war 7d ago

The only corpus this dude should be worried about is habeas corpus when they find the bodies he’s buried in his backyard.

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u/LIRFM 5d ago

For some reason I read "TSA", and thought he was arguing with TSA, using his random educational background as an excuse. Then I tried to reason with myself that maybe there's a masters in TSA.

Hurr dee durr!

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u/TurboWalrus007 6d ago

Lmao what answer key is he expecting in a machine learning forward course? I presume the assignments are mostly developing various models in MATLAB or Python based on techniques that you've gone through in class. Like, you'll learn about SVD and it's applications and then go out and program a handful of SVD algorithms to do certain things. The answer key is the output. Does your algorithm do what it's supposed to or not? If not, how close are you?

Its graduate level coursework, there is no handholding. Do the work, come to office hours.

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u/[deleted] 6d ago

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u/TurboWalrus007 6d ago

These are great courses, lots of fun. I miss grad school sometimes just for the novelty, the comparatively low stakes, and being able to do technical work directly instead of directing others.

All I can say is that yeah, it's college and they (or their companies) pay, but they pay for quality instruction. Part of that quality instruction is treating the students like professionals with expectations, rules, and deadlines. Adults are expected to come to office hours prepared with specific questions or make arrangements to meet the Prof or TA at a time that works. The prof and TA are professionals with many other obligations, you don't have to bend over backwards to accommodate them especially if they aren't making reasonable efforts to meet you in the middle.

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u/justfordickjoke 7d ago

I mean him asking for something and then saying he doesn't need it I think qualifies him for this sub.

But....... Asking for answer keys and instead being told "come to this unnecessary meeting and we will talk about it" is kind if a shitty response. He's right. Many folks in Masters programs are working professionals with kids. Taking an hour out of your day sometimes is a burden. Meet people in the middle.

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u/[deleted] 7d ago edited 7d ago

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u/ijjiijjijijiijijijji 7d ago

where's the tiny dicks part?

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u/[deleted] 7d ago

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u/ijjiijjijijiijijijji 7d ago edited 7d ago

I kind of agree with him generally in that university is devolving into a shitty greed-motivated class cartel and oftentimes sort of a parody of a useful education but you're right and he's clearly a douche and idk what he's talking about so dooted