Never.Say.Die
Dear Students, The news about the increasing deaths by suicide because of academics among your age group is saddening and alarming. As a teacher my mind set is to give you the grades and the policies that you deserve. So it is important that I be as objective as possible at my evaluation techniques and calculations. In the first place, you are the ones responsible for what you get at the end of the semester. You have the whole semester to build it up. I am just supposed to facilitate your learning during that period, compile your work, evaluate it and compute the final output. Grades are supposed to be a measure of how well you have learned or performed at a certain subject. I have observed that many of you, though not all, easily give up once you encounter things that you have no solutions to. This is manifested by: forgetting that your exams are scheduled on certain dates; submitting your papers too early because you do not know the solutions to your exams and laboratory ...
