LCI application submitted
Oct. 6th, 2009 02:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Just sent off my completed evaluation exam for the LCI seminar the weekend after next. It wasn't long -- 50 multiple choice, 25 true/false, and 10 short answer -- but cripes, some of them were hard. At least one question ("what is the most reliable guide for monitoring your level of power output when bicycling on level ground in still air?") appeared to have no prior art anywhere in our class literature -- or, as far as I can tell, on Da Intarwebz. Moreover, I am convinced that the question about how to change a flat tire has no correct answer, and was planted strictly to guarantee that no one can achieve a perfect score on this test.
Anyway. Now I have to start practicing parking-lot drills. They're also going to assign me something to present in class, in order to evaluate my teaching ability.
Public presentation. Now that's something that reaches down and invokes cold, clammy fear in my lizard brain. But hey, that's what this is all about, right? Right?
Anyway. Now I have to start practicing parking-lot drills. They're also going to assign me something to present in class, in order to evaluate my teaching ability.
Public presentation. Now that's something that reaches down and invokes cold, clammy fear in my lizard brain. But hey, that's what this is all about, right? Right?
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Date: 2009-10-06 11:27 am (UTC)Seriously, run a pattern in the back of your head, making a point to look at every person in the room as you speak. Between remembering what the hell you are talking about and trying to run the subroutine, your little lizard brain will be too busy to freak out.
It works for me anyway.
Good luck!
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Date: 2009-10-06 03:09 pm (UTC)Thanks for the good wishes!
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Date: 2009-10-06 12:09 pm (UTC)Rah rah and good luck, especially on the public speaking part!
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Date: 2009-10-06 03:08 pm (UTC)None of them really made sense to me based on what I understand about the definition of "power" (work divided by time) and how you'd measure it on a cycle, so I took a guess.
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Date: 2009-10-06 03:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-10-06 08:21 pm (UTC)I read the question, but not the possible answers - to Cruiser who *immediately* popped out with "Your cadence." In the tone of voice that indicates its the only possible answer and who could possibly think otherwise. I, on the other hand, stared at him as if he'd grown another head.
Cuz that was freaky.
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Date: 2009-10-06 02:18 pm (UTC)Of course NOW the one project where I would be doing that doesn't want me to EVER write anything and NEVER to do any presentations whatsoever, so I'm really REALLY depressed.
I miss being a valued contributor...
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Date: 2009-10-06 08:32 pm (UTC)The answers they were looking for were B&E and robbery, with a long explanation of why he wasn't actually guilty of these things. He might, with equal reason, have been charged with barratry, treason, or "crimes against nature" - these being just as unsupported as a B&E charge.
Alas. I knew that my score wasn't going to be good enough for me to get away with being a wise-ass so I went with B&E. To this day, I have the fond hope that a better student than I chose the higher course.