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10-05-2012, 11:13 AM
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#1 | | Junior Member
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| Poll: When would you most likely go to office hours?
When would you go to your professors/TAs office hours when you need a question(s) to be answered?
a) When I'm confused for the first time
b) When I'm REALLY confused
c) Time for midterms/final and I'm still confused
d) When I need to plead for my grade
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10-05-2012, 09:44 PM
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#2 | | Senior Member
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D, but I have never gone to office hours.
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10-05-2012, 10:53 PM
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#3 | | Junior Member
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b, c, (though I haven't had time to go to any) and i feel like d would make them annoyed
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10-05-2012, 11:53 PM
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#4 | | Senior Member
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Depends. Usually b. I try not to wait until exams; prefer knowing what's going on and then exams aren't too bad.
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10-06-2012, 12:39 AM
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#5 | | Junior Member
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I'm too mild to go to office hours, I will email an instructor, if something weird happens or i'm scared about failing .
I guess i'm just shy .
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10-06-2012, 12:58 AM
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b and c, usually for TA office hours. Usually "confused for the first time" means I've done something stupid and will figure it out in a couple hours/days. I haven't had to plead for a grade yet, though I'd imagine if I was in that range, I'd deserve it.
Generally things with deadlines (homework due, midterm coming up, etc) is when I look for help.
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10-06-2012, 03:05 AM
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#7 | | Senior Member
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Should be B I'd say but I've never gone for any of those reasons.
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10-06-2012, 09:25 AM
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#8 | | Senior Member
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Teacher here. If you come at a, b, and/or c, you probably won't need to come for d...either because you now understand the material or I perceive you as a student who really cares about the course and will give you the benefit of the doubt if your grade is on the borderline.
Come at d for the first time? Hah!  | |
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10-06-2012, 06:34 PM
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#9 | | Senior Member
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B, C (and sometimes A) D, however, is almost out of the question.
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10-06-2012, 07:53 PM
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#10 | | Junior Member
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B and when I have an essay for an English class or something so I know what the professor wants.
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10-06-2012, 08:33 PM
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#11 | | Member
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Pretty much b or c. It's either when I'm really confused or when I'm studying and realize that there are some concepts that I still don't understand.
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10-06-2012, 09:54 PM
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#12 | | Senior Member
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You should go whether or not you are confused. You should get to know the prof, have something intelligent to say, get that "benefit of the doubt" before someting freaks you. Don't just show up in a moment of weakness or desperation.
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10-06-2012, 11:08 PM
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#13 | | Member
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When I was teaching chem at BigStateU, we submitted grades electronically and students could log into their university account and see them. Submitting grades was not the end of the semester for me, it was the beginning of two or three days of e-mails from students who thought they could negotiate for a higher grade because they worked so hard all semester. If they could have seen my inbox during this time they would not have wanted to be part of that whining chorus.
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10-07-2012, 03:12 AM
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#14 | | Junior Member
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I tell myself to go when I'm at stage B, but I always put it off until I'm at C.
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10-07-2012, 03:15 AM
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#15 | | Senior Member
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I always try for A, but I can't always do that... Always atleast by C though. Pleading for a grade never (or should never) work.
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