Advising
Bouldering on the Maureen Lipman boulder yesterday evening. Perfect conditions. Top roped Maureen, not desperate but will need a lot of mats. Did the obvious flake easy but commiting (Flake Placid 6a) Per did the slab on the left (Svarabhakti 6b) would not be nice to fall off! (both repeated each others problems) Worked the hanging slab just right of this, will be a classic.
Meanwhile Rowan stayed up all night in Arne's classroom playing World of Warcraft with his mates on a LAN. So that's one advantage of WOW over bouldering, you can do it in the dark.
More records of progress this weekend, well that probably means sunday evening. This time it's advisee records. Advisees are a group of students who I advise!!! This is not that easy since advice can only really be given when asked for. Imagine I go into Flekke shop and see someone by the cheese counter, go up to them and say. "I advise you against buying cheese it's too high in cholesterol and looking at the state of you the last thing you need is more cholesterol". But this is the sort of thing that goes on all the time - metaphoricaly. So I tend to wait for advisees to ask for advice, I should really be called a waiter not an advisor.
A waiter isn't a bad description for another reason, "advising" is closely connected to eating.
So how should an advisee record of progress be?
It has been very pleasant spending time waiting for Maureen to ask for advice this term. Whilst waiting we have enjoyed one breakfast (bacon, eggs, baked beans and toast), a selection of Pizzas, Chicken curry and of course Pasta.
Meanwhile Rowan stayed up all night in Arne's classroom playing World of Warcraft with his mates on a LAN. So that's one advantage of WOW over bouldering, you can do it in the dark.
More records of progress this weekend, well that probably means sunday evening. This time it's advisee records. Advisees are a group of students who I advise!!! This is not that easy since advice can only really be given when asked for. Imagine I go into Flekke shop and see someone by the cheese counter, go up to them and say. "I advise you against buying cheese it's too high in cholesterol and looking at the state of you the last thing you need is more cholesterol". But this is the sort of thing that goes on all the time - metaphoricaly. So I tend to wait for advisees to ask for advice, I should really be called a waiter not an advisor.
A waiter isn't a bad description for another reason, "advising" is closely connected to eating.
So how should an advisee record of progress be?
It has been very pleasant spending time waiting for Maureen to ask for advice this term. Whilst waiting we have enjoyed one breakfast (bacon, eggs, baked beans and toast), a selection of Pizzas, Chicken curry and of course Pasta.
posted by Chris Hamper at 12:32 PM
2 Comments:
Chris man you have a streak of bad luck when it comes to your advisees and the groups you get. I agree with you, how the hell are you supposed to give them advices all the time, it would seem a bit out of place. Anyhow if you need some inspiration in how to write them drop by my room, I'm done with exams and I can help you write them :)
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