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Re:MIT students give longtime professor standing ovation aft... by usui on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @01:48AM (#36040361)
Either you are grossly exaggerating this phenomenon, or this is some cultural outcome that no one downstream seems to understand where it's from, regardless of university.

The OP at first glance seems to be pushing an incorrect assertion ("standing ovation common at end of quarter unless professor was terrible"). I am slightly amused that over half the current set of comments to this entire article is bewilderment and confusion caused by taking the OP seriously.

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Re:MIT students give longtime professor standing ovation aft... by LTL_FTC on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @11:52PM (#36053868)
To add to my previous response: I witnessed this mostly in my stem courses and definitely in my upper division math courses. General coursework where students take those because they have to, maybe aren’t so keen to, but when a class has been grinding together for ten weeks with really tough material, a camaraderie develops, I suppose
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