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[Jcakes]

There were a few courses on production of chemicals in industrial amounts during my studies. The differences between making a lab amount or trying to make a metric ton of stuff is just so large. Different problems and different ways of looking at things. I found it quite interesting.

Yep, it is a completely different way of thinking TBH. We spend a lot of time on understanding / modelling the kinetics of reactions so that we can easly scale up the reaction in a CSTR or a PFR. The thing I found most interesting was scale-up of CSTRs for bio reactions and the different methods they use.

[Greymouse]

My hs teacher was an under-qualified jackass who hated my mate and me. That made the lessons quite hard. It gave me quite a bit of schadenfreude when he was forced to leave after having an affair with an underaged student. Luckily our replacement teacher was aces and helped me a lot. Similarly, my teacher at uni was brilliant, eccentric and very good at explaining.
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Amen to the schadenfreude. i don't believe in karma, but it's nice to see the examples where i might be completely wrong. Also had an hs teacher like that, different discipline though, but he was brutal. and my gf at the time suspected he was into her and trying to make 'something' happen during the undeserved, random detentions he kept dispensing... real creep of a douchebag, that one. Subtle though. Wish i could say justice prevailed, but he didn't give us any ammunition that we could escalate to admin during that year. Of course, for her sake, i was glad she didn't have to go through something worse either.

Anyways, good to hear you had better formative instruction in the end. In uni, i was more on the humanities side, but i had a helluva time getting through western art lectures until this one teacher made it brilliant. On my retake, this prof infused all of the different changes in art styles with their corresponding political intrigues and socioeconomic concurrencies. Had me riveted. =]

[pancakeman]

That whole teacher/student thing is happening far too frequently in my city, I think we're up to six in the last three years. Must be something in the water, I don't know.
I always did well by putting things into stories. If I can't remember specifics, I formulate a story about it that I can tell myself, that helps. My first college history professor did that the first day, I was so amazed. I guess it isn't that rare, but the way he did it was so flawless, I have yet to find another teacher capable of making a lecture so enjoyable.


(Missed one cakes)

[Jcakes]

One of our lecturers when I was at uni was going through a nasty divorce with his wife (who happened to be an ex-student of his). I guess atleast he married her ......

[kestegs]

Yes....marrying her makes it soooo much better

I still think the teacher thing is kinda hot, isn't that every man's fantasy?

[Jcakes]

I don't know, maybe all my teachers were ugly but I never fantasised about that.

[kestegs]

I suppose if you did have a bunch of ugly teachers it wouldn't happen.

[Muggs]

You have to watch the Hot for Teacher video and you will fantasize or maybe that 80s movie My tutor.

[kestegs]

Yup, I've linked that one recently. although it's a pretty old video now, a bit out of style.

[pancakeman]

I swear my Russian teacher had a thing for me.