About a year ago I wrote an entry about a frustrating experience in teaching to a class of biomedical engineering students. A similar situation occurred on Monday while teaching to a chemical enginering class. Out of 20 students in the class only 14 came. Several arrived very late while a few others left in the middle. I have certainly experienced this before, but it is especially disappointing when advanced undergraduates don’t take a class in their major seriously I tried to explain how important learning how to find information in peer reviewed sources is so important, but they saw me as a substitute teacher. I gave the class an assignment, and told the professors that the no shows and walk outs should get "zeros" if they don't do the assignment.
Only 10 out of the 20 students enrolled in the class even bothered to submit the assignment. [Added to this journal entry on November 9, 2011]
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