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>Were other students just going in and out of there constantly? Not constantly, but fairly frequently, yes. But judging from how frequently I'd meet other stud
by AlanYx 5y ago
>Were other students just going in and out of there constantly?
Not constantly, but fairly frequently, yes. But judging from how frequently I'd meet other students waiting in the hall, it was probably only 1/5th of any class who'd bother to do this.
For math specifically, if the prof I wanted to see wasn't available and I thought the question was quick, I'd sometimes pop in to another professor's office who'd taught me before. e.g., For Calc3 I'd sometimes pop into my Calc2 professor's office if his door was open.
- jimbob45 5y ago>who'd bother to do this I hate this mentality. If you have two hours of office hours a week and they're both during other classes I have, then I can hardly be held accountable for not showing up to your office hours. Let's call it what it is: bad teachers trying to offload culpability for their inability to teach the material adequately during lecture by pretending the students are too lazy to come in after-hours for additional instruction.
- AlanYx 5y agoSorry, I didn't mean that in a pejorative way, probably poor choice of words. I just meant that it wasn't that common for students to come in. Some students I'd see more frequently at the university's tutorial centre than office hours, maybe because they preferred that format. One interesting thing I remember though is that profs in science/math/engineering tended to have better attended office hours than humanities courses. Humanities profs usually seemed surprised to have someone show up during office hours, and I'd rarely meet anyone in the halls apart from humanities grad students.