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I'm a prof. I grind when I prepare a lecture. It's part of the job.

uberman 2y ago
Grind? Really? I work in higher ed and I teach. Prepping even a new course is not grinding. Teaching a course where you are professor of record is certainly not grinding unless you dont know the topic at all. If that is the case though you should not be lecturing for this class. The only legit excuse for grinding here is if you did not do any prep. Doing your job even with a 4/4 load is not grinding. Research proposals and research projects might require grinding. Prepping lectures no way.
- bdangubic 2y ago
  I hope neither I nor anyone I care about ever ends up in any class you teach…
  - remram 2y ago
    Unnecessary attack. You disagree on what "grind" refers to and that's fine, but your comment was personal and mean.
    - bdangubic 2y ago
      really? how about if I wrote this? not personal or mean, yes? “Teaching a course where you are professor of record is certainly not grinding unless you dont know the topic at all.”
      - bdangubic 2y ago
        the absolute best professors on this planet are the grinders… if you are not, you are just coasting on something you think you know but you really don’t (probably re-using powerpoint presentations you created in 2012…)
        uberman 2y ago
        Clearly I touched a nerve. Perhaps you view grinding as "doing your job". I happen to have a different definition. Originating a class can be a slog and originating two to lecture next term would be a grind. If you are not professor of record and thus likely did not originate the class then your assignments and reading, hell the entire course is likely layed out for you. Teaching a section of a course you originated or that someone else originated is likely 80% of the teaching load. Familiarizing yourself with this material so you can effectively teach it is doing your job, not grinding. I'm not sure why you feel the need to suggest I am a crappy teacher or that I lecture from notes more than a decade old. Knowing how accreditation works, how courses are originated, and how sections of thoses courses are taught at r1 institutions, I can only conclude you are ignorant as to how these things actually work. As a real world example, there are many great online courses from places like MIT and Stanford. Hell you can sometimes even get these online lectures for free, the same material covered by those institutions as part of their degree programs. How much grinding does it take for a lecturer to to proctor such a class, particularly given that they also likely get FAs to do labs and grading? If you attended or work at a college where professors grind out new classes every term then that institution is going to have an accreditation and/or tenure issue as "special topics" dont make a degree program.
        sigbottle 2y ago
        For example, from the perspective of an algorithms junkie, there's literally 0 way an algorithms professor with algorithms research published would forget any of the basic algorithms they teach in an introduction to algorithms class. Now what may happen is forgetting what it's like to be a naive, 18 year old freshman in college, and not somebody embroiled in academia for the past few decades. But the audacity to suggest that it's even remotely within the norm for professors to not know their own material... wow.
- 11101010001100 2y ago
  As I said prep is grinding.

Grind? Really? I work in higher ed and I teach. Prepping even a new course is not grinding. Teaching a course where you are professor of record is certainly not grinding unless you dont know the topic at all. If that is the case though you should not be lecturing for this class. The only legit excuse for grinding here is if you did not do any prep. Doing your job even with a 4/4 load is not grinding. Research proposals and research projects might require grinding. Prepping lectures no way.

bdangubic 2y ago
I hope neither I nor anyone I care about ever ends up in any class you teach…
- remram 2y ago
  Unnecessary attack. You disagree on what "grind" refers to and that's fine, but your comment was personal and mean.
  - bdangubic 2y ago
    really? how about if I wrote this? not personal or mean, yes? “Teaching a course where you are professor of record is certainly not grinding unless you dont know the topic at all.”
    - bdangubic 2y ago
      the absolute best professors on this planet are the grinders… if you are not, you are just coasting on something you think you know but you really don’t (probably re-using powerpoint presentations you created in 2012…)
      - uberman 2y ago
        Clearly I touched a nerve. Perhaps you view grinding as "doing your job". I happen to have a different definition. Originating a class can be a slog and originating two to lecture next term would be a grind. If you are not professor of record and thus likely did not originate the class then your assignments and reading, hell the entire course is likely layed out for you. Teaching a section of a course you originated or that someone else originated is likely 80% of the teaching load. Familiarizing yourself with this material so you can effectively teach it is doing your job, not grinding. I'm not sure why you feel the need to suggest I am a crappy teacher or that I lecture from notes more than a decade old. Knowing how accreditation works, how courses are originated, and how sections of thoses courses are taught at r1 institutions, I can only conclude you are ignorant as to how these things actually work. As a real world example, there are many great online courses from places like MIT and Stanford. Hell you can sometimes even get these online lectures for free, the same material covered by those institutions as part of their degree programs. How much grinding does it take for a lecturer to to proctor such a class, particularly given that they also likely get FAs to do labs and grading? If you attended or work at a college where professors grind out new classes every term then that institution is going to have an accreditation and/or tenure issue as "special topics" dont make a degree program.
      - sigbottle 2y ago
        For example, from the perspective of an algorithms junkie, there's literally 0 way an algorithms professor with algorithms research published would forget any of the basic algorithms they teach in an introduction to algorithms class. Now what may happen is forgetting what it's like to be a naive, 18 year old freshman in college, and not somebody embroiled in academia for the past few decades. But the audacity to suggest that it's even remotely within the norm for professors to not know their own material... wow.
11101010001100 2y ago
As I said prep is grinding.