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Monday, October 31st, 2011

Death to single-session freshman labs

By Thoreau
I can’t think of any technical task that I mastered in my first 3 hours of exposure.  Despite that, we (like many physics departments) give the students a different experiment every week, and at the end of 3 hours there’s nothing left to do but write a report on whatever they managed to salvage [...]