Class: PHYS 0175
Prof: Dr. Nero
Again, sorry for doubling up. Busy week!
Monday, March 26 was an exam day. This exam was also the cutoff set by Dr. Nero for visiting a UTA to receive extra credit. I had 3 office hours the Friday before that exam. To no surprise, it was a busy office hours session. I recorded 17 individual visitors during that whole time period! That's 2 more than the total amount of visitors I had from the start of the term up until then! Some were obviously just in it for the credit (and to be fair, I included them because they did put in at least some effort to come in and ask questions), but there was also a fair amount of test questions (though it was definitely influenced by the extra credit deadline, since I hadn't had anywhere near that amount of visitors for the previous two midterms).
Since my Friday office hours for the week of 3/19 were right before an exam, and many people showed up, it became an impromptu group study session. I was fielding questions from homework and practice exams and doing them on the board for up to 8 or 9 people at once. I actually recognized the practice exam problems from the exam I took last spring! There was a bit of pressure involved with doing problems on the board for a large group, since I usually deal with only one or two students at a time, but I was able to resolve all the questions asked (I had office hours the day before homework was due in Hong's 0175 course this fall, so I was used to having to address a bunch of last-minute questions at once).
Quite contrary to that week, the next week's office hours (on the Friday immediately following the exam) were totally empty, so nothing to write about there. I was surprised, since the 3rd midterm last year was sort of my wake-up call for the final. I assume people will start coming soon, though, once Nero gets to EM Waves and Light.
Lectures went as usual; nothing special to comment.
-Jeffrey Socash
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