{"id":4810,"date":"2013-08-31T14:48:58","date_gmt":"2013-08-31T21:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/?p=4810"},"modified":"2014-03-18T10:13:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T17:13:00","slug":"not-in-the-lab-you-want-patience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/2013\/08\/not-in-the-lab-you-want-patience\/","title":{"rendered":"Not in the lab (you want)? Patience&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>61 students had signed up for lab lecture as of last Wednesday. As of today (Saturday), there are 68 lab students: 24 students in the M lab, 24 students in the Tu lab, and 14 students in the W lab (and 10 students on wait lists). We have room for 72. There should be room for everybody, but I have learned the hard way that allowing students to sign up for all of the classes they need (or want) independently of other students almost never produces a useful set of enrollments.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have a solution for any of this yet so I am going to spend the next few days playing &#8216;wait and see&#8217;. Here&#8217;s what I think will happen:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The wait list students will come tell me their stories (why you need to take Chem 201 and why you need to be in the M\/Tu lab instead of W)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Some students will do us all a Big Favor (really!) and switch from M or Tu labs to the W lab<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The wait list students (and maybe others) will ask themselves some existential questions about class schedules: Do I need to take Chem 201 right now or is it something that can wait until another year? Do I need to take the course that conflicts with the W 201 lab right now or can that course wait until another year? Is there more than one way to be happy?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In the meantime some lab periods will slip by and we will approach the Add deadline (Sept 13). Don&#8217;t worry about missing lab. We won&#8217;t start &#8216;wet&#8217; experiments in Chem 201 during the first (shortened) week of classes. But that&#8217;s the subject of <a title=\"201 | Lab Schedule Week #1\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/2013\/08\/lab-schedule-for-week-1\/\"><strong>another post<\/strong><\/a> &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>61 students had signed up for lab lecture as of last Wednesday. As of today (Saturday), there are 68 lab students: 24 students in the M lab, 24 students in the Tu lab, and 14 students in the W lab (and 10 students on wait lists). We have room for 72. There should be room [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-schedule","category-labs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4810"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5085,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4810\/revisions\/5085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}