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Reminiscent of “Berkeley Time”, where classes are scheduled back-to-back, but there is an implicit 10 minute buffer. Why they don’t just make it explicit I wil

Reminiscent of “Berkeley Time”, where classes are scheduled back-to-back, but there is an implicit 10 minute buffer. Why they don’t just make it explicit I will never understand. https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Berkeley-Time-10-minutes-late-university-policy-13182558.php https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Berkeley-Time-10-minu...

recursivecaveat 2y ago
This is close to how my alma mater functioned, everything ended on the 50 or the 20 and started on 00 or 30. Just enough time to climb up out of a basement on one end, make the hike, and descend to the furthest classroom on the other. With lectures the content is rigidly planned and controlled by one person, so the end time is more respected than more open-ended and participatory work meetings I find.
madcaptenor 2y ago
When I taught there as a lecturer nobody bothered to onboard me, because academia. The one thing I made sure I knew before I started was what time do classes start and end, because I knew my students would know. And my undergrad started five minutes after and ended five minutes before, while my grad school started on the hour and ended ten minutes before, so I was aware the custom varied from place to place. It worked out nicely when I had therapy just off-campus at 11 AM (11-11:50, because that's how therapists do it) immediately before a class that started at noon (12:10 - 1:00), although sometimes I was emotionally a wreck while teaching...
CRConrad 2y ago
In Sweden -- or at least in Uppsala, that is, which is the only university I have attended -- it was (and probably still is?) called "akademisk kvart", the "academic quarter" (of an hour). Everything was said to begin at <<some hour>>, but that was understood to mean at quarter past <<the hour>>.

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Reminiscent of “Berkeley Time”, where classes are scheduled back-to-back, but there is an implicit 10 minute buffer. Why they don’t just make it explicit I wil

by sseagull 2y ago

recursivecaveat 2y ago
This is close to how my alma mater functioned, everything ended on the 50 or the 20 and started on 00 or 30. Just enough time to climb up out of a basement on one end, make the hike, and descend to the furthest classroom on the other. With lectures the content is rigidly planned and controlled by one person, so the end time is more respected than more open-ended and participatory work meetings I find.
madcaptenor 2y ago
When I taught there as a lecturer nobody bothered to onboard me, because academia. The one thing I made sure I knew before I started was what time do classes start and end, because I knew my students would know. And my undergrad started five minutes after and ended five minutes before, while my grad school started on the hour and ended ten minutes before, so I was aware the custom varied from place to place. It worked out nicely when I had therapy just off-campus at 11 AM (11-11:50, because that's how therapists do it) immediately before a class that started at noon (12:10 - 1:00), although sometimes I was emotionally a wreck while teaching...
CRConrad 2y ago
In Sweden -- or at least in Uppsala, that is, which is the only university I have attended -- it was (and probably still is?) called "akademisk kvart", the "academic quarter" (of an hour). Everything was said to begin at <<some hour>>, but that was understood to mean at quarter past <<the hour>>.