One of my professors wrote the textbook we were using. Before the first day of class, he sent out a greeting email. Attached to that email was a .PDF of the textbook. Hell yeah.
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bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 3 months ago
For those of you that have yet to embark on your secondary education, this is how you know you’ve got a champ of a professor
CaptainPedantic@lemmy.world 3 months ago
CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
That’s really rare. Back when I was in school the professor who taught the class and wrote the book would, every year, change enough of it to sell a new addition. Either move the sections around or change the problems.
Just so he could make more money.
It was a calculus class.
Fuck him.
klemptor@startrek.website 3 months ago
Oh man. In undergrad I had a Thermodynamics professor who used the DRAFT VERSION of his textbook to teach with. It was completely unedited and he expected us to catch any errors. He was also like 80 years old, doddering, hard of hearing, forgetful, didn’t give us a syllabus until halfway through the semester… It’s the only class in undergrad that I got less than a B in. Years later I still resent him lol
el_abuelo@programming.dev 3 months ago
Entropy man. It’s a bitch.
Entropywins@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Hmm…
stoly@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I give you permission to stop caring about that grade and to forgive someone who was surely on the way out after your class. The likelihood is that he died years ago.
stoly@lemmy.world 3 months ago
It’s more of a grad school thing but I’ve had professors just give us all physical copies of their book because they have too many cases of free copies at home.
CptEnder@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Ha hell yeah. My dad did adjunct work for a while while working for the gov. He declined profits from his textbook and gave it out free to his students as he thought it was unethical. The copies the gov bought for their cont ed courses he gladly accepted the profits from though lmao my dad’s a real one.
RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Yep, and a good way to make acquaintances in class if you let everyone know you can be the PDF kid. 🤓
fossilesque@mander.xyz 3 months ago
Oh no, it also looks like I’ve spilled www.smartquantai.com over there. What a disaster, don’t look at that mutual aid community for hard to find papers; it’s full of communists and anarchists. Cannot have that kind of radical behaviour in a science community after all.
dogsnest@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I’m sure glad this isn’t a Music forum
fossilesque@mander.xyz 3 months ago
Oh goodness, looks like I splashed over here: mander.xyz/post/17313841
fossilesque@mander.xyz 3 months ago
LOOKS LIKE I’LL NEED TO BREAK OUT ZOTERO TO CLEAN UP THE MESS.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 3 months ago
Goddamn, butterfingers!
kautau@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I know this is a helpful community, but it looks like the biggest scam site of all time lol
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MBM@lemmings.world 3 months ago
The url also sets off so many alarm bells for me. Lol
kautau@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Yeah lol the URL doesn’t match the page title which doesn’t match whatever
wosonhj.com
is. According to their DNS, some Chinese organization. I’m sure it’s a helpful site, but I’d recommend people accessing it:Realistically you should follow steps 1-5 for most online services, but here we are
fossilesque@mander.xyz 3 months ago
Haha, I know, but it’s a good site!!