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Students give Gilbert Strang a standing ovation after his last lecture

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Re: Students give Gilbert Strang a standing ovation after his last lecture

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Unless they were absolutely terrible, professors received a standing ovation at the end of the quarter. Feel like this is tradition, no?

I've never seen that anywhere - across like 4 or 5 different universities and three countries. Even if it had happened why would it be at anything other than the end of the year or maybe semester for a single semester course?

Re: Students give Gilbert Strang a standing ovation after his last lecture

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post #11
post #9

Unless they were absolutely terrible, professors received a standing ovation at the end of the quarter. Feel like this is tradition, no?

I've never seen that anywhere - across like 4 or 5 different universities and three countries. Even if it had happened why would it be at anything other than the end of the year or maybe semester for a single semester course?

I've seen it once (and well earned) - Imre Leader at the end of a one term course.

Re: Students give Gilbert Strang a standing ovation after his last lecture

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post #9

Unless they were absolutely terrible, professors received a standing ovation at the end of the quarter. Feel like this is tradition, no?

What school were you at when you experienced standing ovations for teachers? I never have and it also looks like many other commenters have not. I wonder if it is a cultural thing?

Re: Students give Gilbert Strang a standing ovation after his last lecture

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I suspect that this comment section is going to fill up with such anecdotes, but his OCW lecture series on Linear Algebra got me through a college course with a less than inspired lecturer. Had no idea he'd been doing it so long, extremely impressive

Re: Students give Gilbert Strang a standing ovation after his last lecture

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post #9

Unless they were absolutely terrible, professors received a standing ovation at the end of the quarter. Feel like this is tradition, no?

> Unless they were absolutely terrible, professors received a standing ovation at the end of the quarter. I guess I'll be the first one to point out that I never witnessed anything like that.

At UChicago where I attend, most of my big lecture style classes give the prof a round of applause at the end of each quarter (except for one very bad physics lecturer I had once).

Re: Students give Gilbert Strang a standing ovation after his last lecture

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post #9

Unless they were absolutely terrible, professors received a standing ovation at the end of the quarter. Feel like this is tradition, no?

> Unless they were absolutely terrible, professors received a standing ovation at the end of the quarter. I guess I'll be the first one to point out that I never witnessed anything like that.

It was common at my university (US).

Re: Students give Gilbert Strang a standing ovation after his last lecture

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post #14
post #9

Unless they were absolutely terrible, professors received a standing ovation at the end of the quarter. Feel like this is tradition, no?

What school were you at when you experienced standing ovations for teachers? I never have and it also looks like many other commenters have not. I wonder if it is a cultural thing?

In Europe (or some countries in Europe) it's common to receive applause at the end of the semester but never in the US.
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