Couch 198: All the Countries Couch

No, I don’t think there’s a curve. Each exam is 200 points, so the average for this one was 110/200.

And this guy does not “teach.” It’s an online course with no lectures or discussions. We teach ourselves macroeconomics.

Wow, that is a terrible question on the date of a painting. Even if it were a seminal work of art, there are better questions.

No video lectures to watch? What's the point then, to just get the course credit? Couldn't you just read a book and have the same experience/learn the same stuff? I want my money back.

I assume it’s a required class for most of the students. I’m doing it because I never would on my own.

There are short video clips online from the textbook’s publisher, but they’re more like reading the textbook on a few specific concepts. Not what I would call a lecture.

Sounds like the grading in your class is vastly different from mine! In my poetry class we get full points as long as we do the assignment and turn it in on time (each is worth between 1 and 3 points), with the exception of the Poetic Statement which is actually graded-graded and is worth 10 points. There's a possible 100 points total for the class.

We don't have a textbook but she links to different websites for assigned reading every week.

So basically anyone with a pulse and a sense of deadlines gets an A?

Yeah, the problem with economics is one can be objectively wrong or right. I really like it, though. It speaks to the cynic within me.

I don't think I would consider what you describe here as grading or even useful. Is it a pass/fail class?

Seems that way. But no, it's not pass/fail. For me, the most useful part of it is the sharing our work in our small groups and giving/receiving feedback, and then doing multiple edits of our poems.

Is it taught by an adjunct?

That I don't know. In her intro to the course she stated that she's been teaching it since 2011 but I can't find what her actual status or whatever is with the college.

Why, is that like a bad thing? (I honestly don't know)

Apparently. I don't have too much of a problem with that at the moment. Perhaps I should, but I don't.

Actually I think if a person just threw some words on a page and completely ignored the prompt, I doubt they'd get the points. I'd rather not test the theory, though!

oh wow, suddenly I have to do the "captcha" thing to reply. LT wasn't that you that said you were seeing it? Weird.

Not necessarily a bad thing and there are excellent adjuncts out there - but it could explain a lack of rigor.

Aha, makes sense.

I think my favorite economics formula is how to find the velocity of money.

I just like the phrase “velocity of money.”

It makes it sound like money is zipping around.

There is high velocity money in my household does the velocity of money go with the law of diminishing returns? The less money you have the quicker the velocity?

My day is 6 hours old and I have nearly successfully distracted myself from exT except when I realised my trip would take me past his rooms, but I didn't dwell on things either

I bought a bunch of pairs of bike shorts, they were really really cheap. Now i have no excuse not to leave the house. Once they get here and i do laundry. And start taking showers again. I looked it up, i think i have diogenes syndrome.

Kind of—the formula is V x M = P x Y, where M is your money supply, P the price level, and Y GDP. So the lower the money supply the higher its velocity.

But it’s a macroeconomic formula so it might not apply to microeconomics.

I've sure had weeks when I was all too aware of the velocity of money flying out the door.

You’re wandering the streets at night shining a lamp into people’s faces in hopes of finding an honest man?

I still haven't looked up the velocity of money I am just having fun with concepts in my head
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I had a colleague who assigned points like that for every task, utterance, and butt in the seat (not an on-line course). Her students were always seeking me out to explain whether their work was good or not. And it wasn't like she was training them to self-assess; she just didn't know how to grade and was phobic about making a judgment.

Ok, a little late but... my T said that ruptures happen in therapy and they are part of the process that we just have to accept because neither of us can control them. He said that he would never intentionally create a rupture and that he finds them painful and frustrating as well. He also said that because of my history throughout my life and my previous negative experiences with therapy there is a potential for us to have more ruptures than someone who has had a less toxic life. I have not had any experiences of healthy connectedness/attachment to allow me the chance to learn relationship skills and the ebbs and flows of any relationship. Without that foundation of things can turn out OK it is much more likely for me to have a strong response and for rupture. But, he hopes that I will stick with him and allow both of us the opportunity to work through it. His greatest fear with me is that we will have a rupture or I will trigger and just disappear on him and never return to therapy.

In my Astronomy class last semester, velocity had to do with both an object's speed and direction of motion. With money, I guess it would be the speed with which it leaves in the direction of out of my wallet!