OT - MCDB 306 exam question references Denard?
February 21st, 2011 at 9:52 AM ^
Sounds like it's actually referencing Denard's slower cousin.
February 21st, 2011 at 9:57 AM ^
Enough with Demar Dorsey talk!!
/kidding
February 21st, 2011 at 1:58 PM ^
Heh heh... no FLY zone, get it???
February 21st, 2011 at 10:00 AM ^
Good ol' Drosophila...probably the word with the greatest disparity between how frequently I saw it pre and post graduation. Good luck with that question.
February 21st, 2011 at 10:45 AM ^
To this day I curse that class. I took it back in Winter '02 and Prof. Jeyabalan pulled some pretty nasty stuff:
1) in the class you had to cross and grow mutant flies. After several weeks after the flies lay eggs in the nastiest smelling stuff, they hatch. But guess what class, they'll hatch over Spring Break, so someobdy from each group will have to stay in town to collect and score all the flies that hatch. What a ridiculous demand/requirement!
2) The syllabus stated that a 90 was an A-. At the end of the semester, too many people were above that 90 mark so Jeyabalan changed it to needing 92 points to get an A-. Guess who had a 91. Now, I definitely know that was illegal / against school policy and I should have contested it. If only I knew what I was entitled to as a student...so naive back then.
February 21st, 2011 at 10:55 AM ^
Wow, Prof. J. has calmed down alot since then. Now, even though our classes hatch during spring break, they slow down the breeding by putting them in lower temp, so no one has to come in during spring break.
February 21st, 2011 at 11:45 AM ^
You should take more sociology.
February 21st, 2011 at 1:58 PM ^
i just feel bad for the alot. having to waste its spring break on fucking flies.
alots have feelings too.
February 21st, 2011 at 2:39 PM ^
I took it in '09 and all the GSI's came in during spring break to take care of the flies. Also if you completely screwed up, you could just write a report based on what should have happened. Seems like she relaxed her standards...sorry about your grade ownage though.
February 21st, 2011 at 1:40 PM ^
I'm in Dr. J's Embryology lab right now (MCDB 308), and she is excellent. Our first exam is on Wednesday, so maybe Denard will make another appearence then?
February 21st, 2011 at 2:57 PM ^
Wow, the opinion on her has really changed. Most people I know would complain about her. Perhaps tenure (I assume she has it since she's been there for 10+ years) was good to her teaching style.
February 22nd, 2011 at 1:11 AM ^
ill back you up rob. she sucks as a prof. definitely cares about her students, but abuses her gsi's, writes terrible exams, and has no regard for how ancient and outdated some of the course material is. (not to mention that shit regarding changing the curve by making it harder to get an A is definitely true and has been going on for years)
then again, could be worse -- could be clarke teaching the class....
February 21st, 2011 at 2:00 PM ^
Speed of sound? Psh. Dilithium gives you warp speed, man.
February 22nd, 2011 at 1:30 AM ^
You are playing way too much EVE online
February 22nd, 2011 at 1:13 AM ^
as for the dilithium question, the gsi's write the exams. thank them!
February 22nd, 2011 at 9:16 PM ^
I teach, not at a U of M level university. I struggle to find fresh questions every semester. We have frats, though, so I have to.
My second least favorite part of teaching is testing--writing and grading. My least favorite is when I catch a cheater and have to start the process.
It is just hard to write new questions and sometimes you get punch drunk.