Office-Hour Habits of the North American Professor

An anonymous reader writes "For those of you who wonder just exactly what it is that your advisor is up to when you try to find him and meet with him, The Chronicle of Higher Education has a study on the Office-Hour Habits of the North American Professor."

Door closer seems a little off base

[kongjie]

Okay, the article was tongue-in-cheek, but I still have to take issue with its take on keeping the door closed.

1. Students often don't come to office hours.

2. Rather than sitting there waiting for Godot, I always tried to get some work done.

3. Depending on the hallway, noise can be very high; door closing may be the best solution.

4. A sign on the door indicating "Please knock" or clearly showing office hours should be enough impetus for an intelligent student not to hesitate from knocking.

Re:Keep in mind

[Anonymous Coward]

Actually liberal arts professors do shit like go to the middle of the desert where fundamentalists and bandits run wild and try to dig shit out of the hot dry sand. Then when they find something they use one of the several ancient languages they know to decipher what the shit says. Then they go back to the school and bust their ass writing a book on their findings.

Egypt is a fucking big ass country, could you figure out a promising place to dig? Can you decipher heiroglyphics? Do you know the history of the area to find out the importance of what you find?

What does a CS professor do when he's not teaching? Some bullshit ass consulting work? Oh WOWZERS!

Re:Black VS. White

[Unregistered]

it's not black vs. white, it's college vs. research university. I'm sure large black schools have the same problems and small white schools are more student oriented. Not everything relates to race.