Showing posts with label education. Show all posts
Showing posts with label education. Show all posts

Friday, January 29, 2010

When you least expect it

I was looking at the university web page that displays a list of the students registered for a course that I am teaching. Thinking that there might be something to find out about how to download or print this list, I clicked where it said "Help". A little box opened, and here is what it said:

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Summary Class List

This list provides instructors with a detailed list of students who are registered for a specified course and term. The students can be ordered by registration sequence number (the order by which they registered for the course) or alphabetical order, depending on whether or not a registration process has been run by your Registrar's Office. If a student is deceased, the word Deceased will display next to the name. Choose CRN Selection to view information about a different course. Select Term Selection to view information about a different term. Choose a link to navigate to other pages.

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About Me

I am a professor of mathematics. (I began calling myself "Empty" or Ø when hanging around at blogs, because I am somewhat fixated on the empty set. Students and colleagues know that I can be a bit of an ancient mariner about it.)