Educator Roll Call

[curvyjae]

Virgin

Yearbook = no way...did that for 7 yrs!!

It’s my first year. I am getting the hang of it but damn it’s a lot of work

 

[Lone_Wanderer]

It’s my first year. I am getting the hang of it but damn it’s a lot of work

Good luck! Year 1 is all about survival. And I'd love to give pointers, if you wanted...

 

[Retrieversandspaniels]

I teach early years and primary so I get to cover all subjects with my little ones. Hoping to enjoy this last weekend of the summer break before I meet my new class on Monday.

 

[oldflorida]

I’ve spent some years in the arena, before COVID. Retired now for good

 

[mich_man]

Michigan

I currently teach STEM in the middle school, and I want out!

 

[Lost_Yonder]

College professor. Economics. Fun times.

how in the world can economics be fun???

 

[Lost_Yonder]

Do hope everyone who is back in the classroom is staying safe and healthy - strange times with too many crazy people around.

It's wonderful being back in the classroom, but...

 

[wifewatcher1997]

It’s my first year. I am getting the hang of it but damn it’s a lot of work

Way too much work...hopefully you have a few students who are truly driven to help as well.

 

[Dubinsky]

Teaching English, probably north of you.

But this is the internet. Geography is not the important part.

 

[Mika1215]

how in the world can economics be fun???

Economics is the most fun! Everything is about economics.

You just need a fun professor...

 

[Dubinsky]

Economics is the most fun! Everything is about economics.

You just need a fun professor...

Econ is the kind of thing I should have learned better. Like most of the other subjects with numbers.

 

[Mika1215]

Hey all, how's your semester/quarter/term/whatever starting?

Here I would say, slightly surreal. Probably an understatement.

 

[Mika1215]

Econ is the kind of thing I should have learned better. Like most of the other subjects with numbers.

Yeah... falls right in that category of, if I'd actually known how my life would go, this would have been something to learn for a lot of people.

(Also my life would have been a hell of a lot better later if I'd known in high school that I was actually going to care about math rather than having it be something I just had to get through.)

 

[Dubinsky]

Yeah... falls right in that category of, if I'd actually known how my life would go, this would have been something to learn for a lot of people.

(Also my life would have been a hell of a lot better later if I'd known in high school that I was actually going to care about math rather than having it be something I just had to get through.)

Yah.

Science, too. I have a physics deficit.

 

[Mika1215]

Yah.

Science, too. I have a physics deficit.

Totally. Like... I get gravity. And 2 laws of thermodynamics, from a song. And that's about it. I really feel like I should have learned something about this at some point. Oh, and a tiny bit of astrophysics only because my dad was a physicist and hung with a lot of the black hole guys. Osmosis.

 

[Dubinsky]

Totally. Like... I get gravity. And 2 laws of thermodynamics, from a song. And that's about it. I really feel like I should have learned something about this at some point. Oh, and a tiny bit of astrophysics only because my dad was a physicist and hung with a lot of the black hole guys. Osmosis.

Wait. I thought osmosis was chem.

See? This is how much of a waste of time it was trying to teach me science.

 

[Mika1215]

Wait. I thought osmosis was chem.

See? This is how much of a waste of time it was trying to teach me science.

Lol, I think it is. It always kind of amazes me, too, how badly I retain science. I mean, I have, on the whole, a great memory, and I can totally understand the things that my bio prof close friend explains to me... but could I explain them back in like, an hour? Very likely not.

 

[nightrider6918]

I was taught that - in abstract terms - biology is applied chemistry, chemistry is applied physics, and physics is a whole lot of smart people figuring out how and why everything works at the most basic levels (I suppose nowadays we’d say it’s applied quantum physics lol).

Granted, I heard that from a physics teacher so they were certainly biased haha

 

[Dubinsky]

Lol, I think it is. It always kind of amazes me, too, how badly I retain science. I mean, I have, on the whole, a great memory, and I can totally understand the things that my bio prof close friend explains to me... but could I explain them back in like, an hour? Very likely not.

Science described, vs. science understood. I think I can comprehend the concepts, but if I was told I'd need to actually "do science" I suspect I'd just sit there, shaking my head. Econ's the same for me. I get the concepts in a theoretical way, but research? Numbers?

I'll let you do all that.

 

[Mika1215]

I was taught that - in abstract terms - biology is applied chemistry, chemistry is applied physics, and physics is a whole lot of smart people figuring out how and why everything works at the most basic levels (I suppose nowadays we’d say it’s applied quantum physics lol).

Granted, I heard that from a physics teacher so they were certainly biased haha

I feel like this is the place for the classic but terrible economics joke.

A ‪‎physicist, an ‪‎engineer and an ‪‎economist are stranded in the desert. They are hungry. Suddenly, they find a can of corn. They want to open it, but how?

The physicist says: “Let’s start a fire and place the can inside the flames. It will explode and then we will all be able to eat”.

“Are you crazy?” says the engineer. “All the corn will burn and scatter, and we’ll have nothing. We should use a metal wire, attach it to a base, push it and crack the can open.”

“Both of you are wrong!” states the economist. “Where the hell do we find a metal wire in the desert?! The solution is simple: ASSUME we have a can opener”…

 

[Mika1215]

Science described, vs. science understood. I think I can comprehend the concepts, but if I was told I'd need to actually "do science" I suspect I'd just sit there, shaking my head. Econ's the same for me. I get the concepts in a theoretical way, but research? Numbers?

I'll let you do all that.

But the difference is... every day, you live econ! Every choice you make, every time you spend money, really everything you do. (There's an hilarious book called, Everything I Learned About Economics I Learned from Online Dating, or something like that, too.)

I'll shut up now, but I spend a lot of time selling the joys of econ!

 

[Dubinsky]

But the difference is... every day, you live econ! Every choice you make, every time you spend money, really everything you do. (There's an hilarious book called, Everything I Learned About Economics I Learned from Online Dating, or something like that, too.)

I'll shut up now, but I spend a lot of time selling the joys of econ!

That was a revelation I had once. Econ is not about money, it's about choices.

 

[Mika1215]

That was a revelation I had once. Econ is not about money, it's about choices.

A++++

 

[Dubinsky]

A++++

Lol.

Yeah, I thought that was pretty good too. If only it was that easy to distill chemistry.

No pun intended.

 

[Lost_Yonder]

I feel like this is the place for the classic but terrible economics joke.

A ‪‎physicist, an ‪‎engineer and an ‪‎economist are stranded in the desert. They are hungry. Suddenly, they find a can of corn. They want to open it, but how?

The physicist says: “Let’s start a fire and place the can inside the flames. It will explode and then we will all be able to eat”.

“Are you crazy?” says the engineer. “All the corn will burn and scatter, and we’ll have nothing. We should use a metal wire, attach it to a base, push it and crack the can open.”

“Both of you are wrong!” states the economist. “Where the hell do we find a metal wire in the desert?! The solution is simple: ASSUME we have a can opener”…

I think that sums up econ perfectly, which makes it analogous to my field - mythical

It's only week 3 and I'm already exhausted...