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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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Post by LTL_FTC »

jeffwass wrote: post #30
LTL_FTC wrote: post #9

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

One time a single student clapped a few times at the end of my one of my TA sessions, and it really made my day! I was a TA for many classes during my Physics PhD program, and this bit of clapping was a singular occurrence, in the middle of the semester. I’ve never been a course lecturer though, that was always for faculty.

The great TA’s also got a round of applause during the last discussion section. I had a few TA’s that really saved my ass. Mine and most others in the class because the professor wasn’t so great. They’re the ones that received them.

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

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Post by LTL_FTC »

Schmools wrote: post #18
justin66 wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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).

Thank you. Yes, this was at UCSD and most of my stem classes were pretty large. So many people on replying to my post seem to think I’ve made this up. Sad for them they never experienced how great it felt to complete a semester or quarter with a round of applause and a “good luck with finals!”

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

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Post by LTL_FTC »

jeffwass wrote: post #30
LTL_FTC wrote: post #9

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

One time a single student clapped a few times at the end of my one of my TA sessions, and it really made my day! I was a TA for many classes during my Physics PhD program, and this bit of clapping was a singular occurrence, in the middle of the semester. I’ve never been a course lecturer though, that was always for faculty.

I’m sure you were great but realize most of your student probably weren’t trying to major in physics? Maybe mostly engineering students and such who weren’t fond of the material or having to take it. I was experiencing this mostly in my upper division courses.

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

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Post by jl2718 »

He taught this class long ago at Lincoln Laboratory, tests, problem sets and all, to a bunch of adult learners, often science and engineering PhDs, that realized the importance of the subject only after leaving school. It transformed the culture of the place because everybody was speaking the same language across many disciplines.

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

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Post by justin66 »

LTL_FTC wrote: post #62
Schmools wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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).

Thank you. Yes, this was at UCSD and most of my stem classes were pretty large. So many people on replying to my post seem to think I’ve made this up. Sad for them they never experienced how great it felt to complete a semester or quarter with a round of applause and a “good luck with finals!”

There's a world of difference between a round of applause and a standing ovation. It would appear you misused the term "standing ovation."
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