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munin on July 14, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Dijkstra: “You will be treated as grown-ups”

this presumes that:

- professors have open hours

- professors can be found before or after the lecture

- professors respond to your email

- professors ever go to their offices

PhearTheCeal on July 14, 2013 [–]

Which is ultimately a presumption that the professor still cares about teaching after they have earned tenure.

fnordfnordfnord on July 14, 2013 | [–]

Tenure schmenure, if you want profs who do interesting research, they'll need some time to tend to that research.

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