{"id":1159,"date":"2010-11-29T00:44:20","date_gmt":"2010-11-29T07:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/?p=1159"},"modified":"2010-11-29T00:44:20","modified_gmt":"2010-11-29T07:44:20","slug":"ten-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/2010\/11\/29\/ten-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As of the end of August 2010, I have been employed as a lecturer at SFU for ten years.<\/p>\n<p>On the basis of Peter Norvig&#8217;s excellent essay &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/norvig.com\/21-days.html\">Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years<\/a>&#8220;, I extrapolate that in the past ten years, I must have learned how to do this thing that I claim to be my profession.<\/p>\n<p>Because I like Norvig&#8217;s examples, I will add my own: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Queen_%28band%29\">Queen<\/a> formed in 1971, and played the Queen Rock Montreal show in 1981.  Just look at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jBfVpG2PqPo\">that performance<\/a>, just look at it!  I&#8217;m convinced Freedie was an alien from the planet of  excellent stage performers and was exiled for making everyone else look bad.<\/p>\n<p>While I&#8217;m not Freddie Mercury, I think I&#8217;m doing okay. I have felt my lecturing style change, even within the last year. It&#8217;s somehow just easier; more comfortable.  I&#8217;m more likely to leave a lecture and think &#8220;anybody that thinks they could have done that any better can go fuck themselves,&#8221; usually on days when I have coffee, which does funny things to my brain.<\/p>\n<p>I still think of myself as a better course designer than actual &#8220;lecturer&#8221;, but that&#8217;s another story.<\/p>\n<p>By the numbers: (all values as close as I can figure without really looking that hard)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Students taught on campus: 4900<\/li>\n<li>Students supervised in distance sections: 2200<\/li>\n<li>Time spent lecturing: 1600 hours, or two straight months<\/li>\n<li>Time spent watching exams: 220 hours, or one icepick lobotomy<\/li>\n<li>Sections of CMPT 120: 4<\/li>\n<li>Sections of CMPT 165: 14 on campus, 17 distance<\/li>\n<li>Sections of CMPT 470: 13, with 153 project groups<\/li>\n<li>Projects supervised: 9 (capstone, directed studies, etc.)<\/li>\n<li>TAs supervised: 125<\/li>\n<li>Emails sent and received: 150,000 (wild guess)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Okay&hellip; I&#8217;m tired just looking at that.  Must be getting old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As of the end of August 2010, I have been employed as a lecturer at SFU for ten years. On the basis of Peter Norvig&#8217;s excellent essay &#8220;Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years&#8220;, I extrapolate that in the past ten years, I must have learned how to do this thing that I claim to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1159"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1178,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159\/revisions\/1178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}