Well, readings are important for class discussions (well, unless you have big classes for your HASSes, I prefer the cosy small ones where you discuss a lot). That said, in classes like Shakespeare or Foundations of Western Culture where I've already read the books, I can discuss without reading at all--glee!Erekose13 said:yup and who really needs to do the readings if you are good at bsing your way through the essays
Heh, I rarely had to read due to taking classes on things I liked (and had mostly already read), but that didn't stop me from discussing all the time. I hadn't realised just how much my prof liked me in Shakespeare until he e-mailed me two weeks ago (I took the class two *years* ago) to ask me to do a photo-shoot for a magazine displaying the software we used for movie clips in the class, since he liked my essays so much. I mean, I knew I had an 'A' in the class, but I never knew I left such an impressionErekose13 said:
Yeah, too bad I'm, y'know, a Computer Science majorErekose13 said:nicei dont think I left that much of an impression on any prof at university.
Nope--not usually. Those classes were usually rather large and difficult to get to know the prof. Hopefully between my one prof I took with a fun small discussion class (and now work with in AI research) and my former recitation instructor from my intro class who bet on me to get 100% for her on the test and win her a pool (that was a funny story--I got 99% because of a mistake in the lectures telling me to do it, though what I wrote was wrong, and she convinced me to ask for the point back and I felt like a jackass because I knew people with 60% or lower. I did get it back thoughErekose13 said:
) and then knew me when I took her grad class, I'll have some good references Ah CogSci. I'm doing a lab in that to fulfill my institute lab requirement (long story short, we don't have an AI lab, so I got mad and took the cogsci one). I don't even have either of the intro entry-level CogSci classes, either, but the prof let me inErekose13 said:
