I made another pie

Perhaps this is more a function of professors than of class level, but I seem to be encountering more and more bluntly expressed professorial opinion in graduate classes than I recall from undergrad.  For instance, today we learned that if you like model theory, you'll want properties to be "just sets plus palaver".

Comments

[Matt Weiner]

I think it may be partly that you're expected to be more able to deal, and to argue. Less fear of shoving your opinion down grad students' throats, because the grad students are better able to spit it back.

[Matt Weiner]

"spit it back out" is possibly the mot juste -- reject it, not repeat it.

[Michael]

That's hooey, Matt.

[Michael]

It's my understanding that what often happens is that students who spit it back out instead of swallowing it find that they start getting it less from their professors. I hear this happens in the classes of one Fontana Labs.

[Standpipe Bridgeplate]

"just sets plus palaver"

At first glance I read this as the frenchoid je sais plus palaver, which might mean, approximately, "I no longer know how to prattle on".

[bitchphd]

It's because we're trying to indoctrinate you.

[dave zacuto]

Prove bridgeplate's incorrect parsing wrong, Ben.

[des von bladet]

There are persons who like model theory? Yikes!

[Armsmasher]

But what kind of pie?

[ben wolfson]

Rhubarb and raspberry—it wasn't that good, mostly because I was low on sugar.

Prove bridgeplate's incorrect parsing wrong, Ben.

All in good time. All in good time.