This blog has been very quiet lately. Sorry about that, but when you’re preparing for five labs a week in addition to lecture courses, things get a little … hectic.
That said, we’re four weeks into the semester down here, and we’ve started our labs. I normally push the start of labs back a week, so as to avoid having people add my class after we’ve already done a lab and discussed lab safety.
A bit of the lab schedule
The laboratory notebook, also known as a 50-cent composition book.
Or were these folks simply not paying attention?
You know, if we could figure out how to solve America’s attention-deficit-disorder problem, that would go a long way to solving our other problems. Just sayin’. 🙂
Tags: chemistry lab, ready on day one, students
Know exactly what you mean!! Happens every semester, and apparently at other institutions. Recently, I was unfortunately not surprised that most of my lab students didn’t have their lab notebook (of the exotic type), nor their very cheap lab manual ($16) as required at the first lab session. A few more decided not to purchase these in time for the second lab session. ADD or an “ignore it and it will go away” syndrome? To think I complained years ago about buying the Handbook of Chemisty!