rebeccmeister | My brains is hurted (Reply)

This week has been INSANE. Lots of meetings, some productive, some ???. A bit of research. Crazy teaching. My goal for the lab this week was to help students locate primary research articles: scientific papers that describe original hypotheses and experiments. This time around, I made students tell me what the causal question (how/why/what causes something), hypothesis, and experiment were. Some students are able to do this relatively quickly, but other students struggle mightily with the concepts. They are absolutely key to understanding how science works, so I have to push them to think things through. But each student selects a different article, and each student must get individual attention to know if their article is appropriate for the guidelines of the assignment. This means I have to think about approximately 24 different subjects over a very short timeline. Long story short, it's exhausting.

What a week. I'll be grateful when it's Saturday. I plan a nice leisurely ride to the Farmer's Market, possibly followed by some more biking, and then a heck of a lot of grading.

Yeah.