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[contrarianarchon]

Of all the corona-virus teaching possibilities I've encountered "lets just literally stop and in two months time hold the exam on what we did so far" is honestly the most concerning one (though "Lets make the exam into a totally different and much harder format" is also up there). (And clearly one that could only be done in a mythology class; if you pulled this shit in a 2000 level engineering class something would be fucked and it would be rightly your fault)

(Also - he's said that we can't reference any stories other than the ones already covered in class for the exam, which means I now have to actively avoid my class texts so I don't have to go through the annoyance of having solid references to solid ideas that I'm not allowed to use)

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[brin_bellway]

God*damn*. You'd think he could at least hold the exam a little sooner so the information is fresher.

[contrarianarchon]

If he did that he'd have to tell his bosses he wasn't giving us the second half of the semester. Not all of us live in hyper-flexible online study-land; there's a designated Amount of Time Spent Teaching and a designated Exam Time.

[brin_bellway]

>>If he did that he'd have to tell his bosses he wasn't giving us the second half of the semester.<<

So he's skipping the second half of the semester *and* hiding it from his bosses.

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>>Not all of us live in hyper-flexible online study-land<<

Well, we kind of *are* all living in online study-land these days, but some of us are living in houses hooked up to the grid and others are in hastily-constructed refugee camps. I hope your camp can return to their old homes soon, or failing that get some infrastructure.

[contrarianarchon]

I didn't say he was a *good* teacher, did I? He was a doddering old fool even when the classes were actually happening, and I only liked the class because I got incredibly lucky with my classmates and that he turned much of the class-time over to disscussion.

(Though considering that I generally like my classmates in humanities-type subjects much more than stem-type classes there might be a bias there; possibly it's as little as "I pick my humanities classes sparingly on the most interesting-sounding subjects, and thereby get small classes of people with common interests" whereas a similarly-small class of engineers it's more bleak camaraderie about stupid math we need to make the quad-copters not crash")