Recalling the less-than-pleasant experience on "Take Your (Grade 9) Kid To Work Day" a few months back, I'm a little leery about signing up for something that might end up with me standing in front of several dozen visibly-disinterested university students who are only there because Mommy and Daddy insist they take some courses if they want the weekend parties to continue to be paid for... But perhaps I'm being too hard on the current generation.
Among the questions I hope to get answered are:
- What, specifically, is the course about?
- How interested in "real world examples" do the students tend to be?
- What does the course lecturer hope that the students would get out of this?
- How much material (in terms of length of time) would be appropriate?
- How big is the class (number of students)?
If my Agile book was already published and selling like hotcakes, I suppose this is the sort of thing I could actually charge money for! Ah, it's fun to dream... (and do even hotcakes sell like hotcakes anymore?)
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heh - it is Shrove Tuesday tomorrow... co-incidence?
What happens on Shrove Tuesday? asked the infidel.
Is that a pancake/hotcakes thing?
aka pancake tuesday
aka fat tuesday
aka mardi gras
i don't recall exactly what the lineage is for the day... i was just trying to play on the "pancake tuesday" reference.
We're in the week leading up to Lent, which is the 40 days before Easter. Many people give something up for Lent (e.g. Chocolate, Coffee etc...), so they pig out the week before. Ha.
Re guest speaking at the Uni:
I would think you'll have a bit more enthusiasm then 9th graders, but I wouldn't expect too much. For some students, class is the only time they actually have to sleep. :-)
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