MIT students give longtime professor standing ovation after last lecture

Re:MIT students give longtime professor standing ovation aft... by olliej on Monday May 22, 2023 @10:28PM (#36039096)

I've never seen that anywhere - across like 4 or 5 different universities and three countries. Even if it had happened why would it be at anything other than the end of the year or maybe semester for a single semester course?

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Re:MIT students give longtime professor standing ovation aft... by lmm on Monday May 22, 2023 @10:49PM (#36039219)

I've seen it once (and well earned) - Imre Leader at the end of a one term course.

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Re:MIT students give longtime professor standing ovation aft... by ginnungagap on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @12:39AM (#36039881)

That's not a name I was expecting to see on HN! I haven't had the luck of taking one of his courses, but I discussed many interesting puzzles with him at a conference last year, great guy!

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Re:MIT students give longtime professor standing ovation aft... by LTL_FTC on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @11:45PM (#36053826)

UCSD. Most of my professors received round of applause at the end of the final lecture. Pretty common practice here. Mostly in my stem classes. Didn’t really happen in lower division general ed. When you’ve been grinding through difficult math, computer science and other stem, a camaraderie develops, I suppose

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