my husband was arguing with high school friends in Europe about voter ID laws in the US. They had no idea that IDs in the US are not free, nor that many of the IDs we issue don't validate citizenship anyway. I asked my husband the obvious question: WHY DO THEY CARE THEY ARE EUROPEANS?? No answer...
(I did take the NCFDD Faculty Boot Camp which... turns out to be some faculty members' side hustle as far as I can tell).
Love how we have all accepted the designed-to-fail stage of capitalism to such a degree that my plumber can warn me to my face "this water heater is not going to last as long as your old water heater" and I just shrug and sigh and he just shrugs and sighs
To CMU's credit we have an excellent teaching center with internal coaching, and they are the only reason I have not been pilloried for incompetence in the classroom by hundreds of angry undergraduates.
Nobody ever formally taught me how to do the actual duties of my job. Just to design experiments and write papers about them. And there is... so much more to this job.
Also I think we do not excel as a field at providing formal professional training. My sister is in the corporate world and is getting sent off on leadership trainings and seminars and like, nobody ever taught me how to organize a class? Manage a lab budget? Manage an underperforming RA?
BUT I DIDN'T THINK THE LEOPARDS WOULD EAT MYYYYY FACE
Like every other basic morbid dumbass, I like cemeteries. I think they can be beautiful and poignant and anthropologically fascinating. But allow me to introduce you a hyper-specific subset of graves I enjoy: "showmen's rest" sites.
We just never set up the Wifi on our oven. It just acts like a normal oven. It's fine.