Historical Characters, Including Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 40

[cahn]

I'm trying to use my other account at least occasionally so I posted about my Yuletide gifts there, including the salon-relevant 12k fic that features Fritz, Heinrich, Voltaire, Fredersdorf, Saint Germain, Caroline Daum (Fredersdorf's wife), and Groundhog Day tropes! (Don't need to know canon.)

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Re: Grad school

[mildred_of_midgard]

The "not teaching us what we needed to know" was only two classes

The reason you hear about this disproportionately is that it's a big problem, it forced me to change my entire career plans and was mildly traumatic, and is something I would want to reform. You don't hear about all the times I solved math problems incrementally because 1) that was fun! that's why I have a degree in math! and 2) it is pedagogically correct, as you note, so I see no problem there.