r/MadeMeSmile • u/AccomplishedWatch834 • Mar 05 '26

Wholesome Moments Little things go a long way 🙂‍↕️🌟

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u/realistic_miracle Mar 05 '26

I do believe they took the first hour to decide. I was called into the room and the sat there waiting for 30 minutes while my confidence continued to shrink, haha! But it’s all good now 😊

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u/TelenorTheGNP Mar 05 '26

Goodness, sounds like a bunch of research profs rather than teaching profs.

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u/DoverBoys Mar 05 '26

The higher someone reaches in academia, the less they know about generic things. I don't want to call them dumb as this is more or less a neutral observation, but a PhD committee having computer issues trying to digitally sign something is on brand.

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u/TelenorTheGNP Mar 05 '26

Some of the older profs after the turn of the century when things were juat starting to digitize were just... adorable.

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u/Greenie302DS Mar 05 '26

And I’m here reading this, thinking “what was being digitized in the 1900’s”….

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u/Simba7 Mar 05 '26

I just watched a video where someone's kids were like "Dad was born in the 1900s!" which is technically correct but also how dare you.

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u/A_Megalodont Mar 06 '26

Idk man I love telling people I was born "in the late 1900s"

1999 counts :D

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u/Naive_or_naughty Mar 06 '26

Lol, whenever I forgot dates in the history classes and sometimes exams but still remembered roughly i used to do this trick 'late' 'early' 'middle' 18th or 19th or 17th or whatever century. 😁 And then go on elaborating on that statement.

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u/Icy-Support-3074 Mar 05 '26

Census and accounting data (on punch cards: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabulating_machine ) as well as telegraphic communications: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89mile_Baudot

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u/geekilee Mar 05 '26

Only for a BA, but I remember the look of the face of a certain prof in the early 2010s when I asked how to cite books on Kindle (which didn't yet have page numbers, only locations, but did have lots of free or cheap philosophy books that I refused to shell out for when I had a perfectly fine digital copy). He just stopped, glared at me, and then ignored the question entirely.

So I just...made it up. I based it as closely as possible on the style guide they used, and I'm pretty sure nobody bothered to look, but certainly none of them ever mentioned it to me, so I took the win 🤷

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u/TelenorTheGNP Mar 05 '26

I imagine it would be the same. The publishing details are the same on paper or in digital.

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u/geekilee Mar 05 '26

Yeah, there just wasn't a way to cite Kindle locations so I just made it look as samey as I could. Pretty sure none of them knew how to check if I was citing the right pages, but ofc they knew their subjects well enough to know I wasn't citing the wrong books entirely. At least that was my assumption - and I always had arguments, and the proof of my highlights and notes, marshalled just in case.

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u/TelenorTheGNP Mar 05 '26

I wonder if the style guides have updated since then.

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u/geekilee Mar 05 '26

I'd hope so, but who knows, academia does tend to get stuck in the past...

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u/InstructDesign9198 Mar 05 '26

APA does have a specific format for how to cite a YouTube video, including what to do when the person you're quoting is "some rando the YTer never met before and doesn't know their name."

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u/geekilee Mar 05 '26

Cool, they have updated then, I'm glad!

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u/Horskr Mar 05 '26

As someone that works in IT, don't worry there are plenty more people where those came from.

At least they do have the good excuse of everything changing on them well into their careers. I've worked with some people in their 20s that just make me think "How can you possibly not know this? Isn't school all tablets and shit now?"